Free awesome software for linux

Minimum Profit is a FREE text editor for programmers.
If you are reading this (you are), you probably know what a text editor is and thus I wont explain what open file, search and replace, tab size and things like those, means. Only the special or not-so-intuitive features will be explained. In any other aspect, mp is just like
the text editor you were using until today, before youve found this unknown jewel that will change your life.
Much of Minimum Profits behaviour is changeable from a configuration file, as key bindings, colors, the menu and other variables. Take a look at mprc.sample for details. The configuration files for Unix systems are /etc/mprc and $HOME/.mprc (see below to know how to set it in Win32).
Minimum Profit includes several interfaces:
- curses: the good old text interface. You need any Unix (Linux, Solaris, IRIX, any BSD...) and the curses or ncurses library. It was also sucessfully compiled under BeOS (with a locally compiled ncurses) many years ago.
- GTK: You need any X11 system with the GTK+ libraries installed. Support for GTK versions 1.2 and 2.0 is provided.
- Win32: You need Microsoft Windows 95 or later and the lccwin32 compiler.
Main features:
- Multiple files can be edited at the same time and blocks copied and pasted among them.
- Syntax highlighting for many popular languages / file formats: C, C++, Perl, Shell Scripts, Ruby, Php, SQL, Python, HTML...
- Creative use of tags: tags created by the external utility ctags are used to move instantaneously to functions or variables inside your current source tree. Tags are visually highlighted (underlined), and symbol completion can be triggered to avoid typing your own function names over and over.
- Intelligent help system: pressing F1 over any word of a text being edited triggers the underlying system help (calling man when editing C or Shell files, perldoc with Perl, ri on Ruby, winhelp on MS Windows...).
- Understandable interface: drop-down menus, reasonable default key bindings.
- Configurable keys, menus and colors.
- Text templates can be easily defined / accessed.
- Multiplatform: Console/curses, GTK+ (1.2 and 2.0), MS Windows.
- Automatic indentation, word wrapping, internal grep, learning / repeating functions.
- Search and replace using plain text or regular expressions (including a special function to replace text on all open files).
- Small memory footprint.
- Multilingual.
- Password-protected, encrypted text files (using the ARCFOUR algorithm).
- It helps you abandon vi, emacs and other six-legged freaks definitely.
- Awesome easter egg.
Installation
To compile under any Unix flavour, just run
$ ./config.sh
$ make
The first step should automatically detect all usable interfaces and
additional libraries and leave a Makefile behind. Previous Minimum Profit
versions used to need GNU Make; this is no longer true. By running
$ ./config.sh --help
you can see a list of tweakable options. Also, a bunch of README.* files are
included with Minimum Profits standard distribution with information
specific to many systems and cross-compilers. Notoriously, if you have
the mingw32 cross-compiler suite in your Unix system, you can build an
MS Windows binary pretty easily (README.mingw32).
To install just run (as root):
# make install
and it will be instaled in /usr/local/bin. You can select an alternate
installation directory in the configuration phase; for example, to install
it on /usr/bin, do
$ ./config.sh --prefix=/usr/bin
Enhancements:
- This new release features a new complete action, that asks for completion on the current word using any of the words found in the same document, a new redo action, to revert undo operations, the global configuration file `/etc/mp.mpsl is also executed, in the replace action, the substitution string can contain the special character and , that will be replaced by the matched string (as in the `sed command line tool), and more documentation.

The GeeXboX is no more than an awesome standalone media player. Why such a name ? Well, its main purpose is to play DivX movies and, as everybody usually call this kind of projects DivX boxes, well just prepended a "GeeX", cause thats for the geeks you all are.
GeeXboX is a full operating system, livecd that can run on any machine and it is based on the excellent MPlayer. No need for a hard drive, you just have to put the GeeXboX bootable CD into the CD-Drive of any Pentium-class computer to boot it. Moreover, GeeXboX is free software, created as open-source software. This means that everyone can modify it and build his own release of the GeeXboX.
You may wonder why you should have to boot another operating system to play your media files, but just think about the Mini-ITX platforms like VIA Epia/Eden or Shuttle barebones. Its now affordable to bring DivX to your home cinema, plugging this kind of computer directly to your TV !!
At the time of the first development releases (Dec. 2002), it was only capable of playing DivX movies, but now, nearly every kind of media file can be played with GeeXboX, with the OS supporting :
- MPEG 1/2 movies (MPG files, VCDs, DVDs ...)
- MPEG 4 movies (DivX, XviD ...)
- RealMedia and Windows Media movies.
- OggMedia streams
- Matroska streams
- Audio streams like : MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, WAV (AudioCD), AC3 ...
GeeXboX is an operating system but you still need something to boot on ;-) Youre lucky, GeeXboX is based on MPlayer, which can be considered as one of the less cpu-dependent movie players, thanks to the use of FFMpeg for decoding movies.
System requirements:
- Pentium-Class CPU or above (P2-400 should be quite enough)
- a VESA 2.0 compliant graphics card.
- an ALSA compatible sound card.
- at least 64 MB of RAM
- CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
- Motherboard which supports booting on CD-ROM (should be ok for everyone
- Keyboard, Joystick or Remote Controller, using a Lirc-compatible IR (InfraRed) receiver (check http://www.lirc.org to build yours), e.g. Miro PcTVs one or ATI Remote Wonder.
Enhancements:
- GeeXboX 1.1. Although development never stopped, more than a year has passed without any new official GeeXboX release. This new one is a really good candidate for your HTPC multimedia distribution choice. It comes with an improved hardware support, providing dozens of new drivers (a lot of new WiFi controllers, DVB card chipsets and new remote controls). It also comes with a massively upgraded and more stable MPlayer, which features native decoding of various audio and video formats that used to be available through non-free Win32 DLLs only. Also, GeeXboX now has some decoding speed improvements and the OSD menu has been completely rewritten to provide a lot of new attractive features.

Fly Hard is a game resembling Thrust, but with lots of shooting and puzzles.
Main features:
- Realistic(ish) physics.
- Awesome weapons(if you can afford them).
- Upgradable ship.
- 10 whole levels!
- Sound!
- Editable levels

Dabo is a three-tier, cross-platform database application development framework, written in Python with the wxPython GUI toolkit.
Dabos authors, Ed Leafe and Paul McNett, have strong backgrounds in database application development using the awesome and underrated Microsoft Visual FoxPro development environment.
While Visual FoxPro shines at developing data-centric applications, it has one limitation that cannot be ignored: it only runs on Microsoft Windows, and Ed and Paul both have clients that want their applications to run on Linux and Macintosh. We are sure we are not alone in this regard: it is a multi-platform world with more diverse needs than one vendor can fulfill.
Ed and Paul got to talking one day: Paul had been researching various multiplatform GUI toolkits for about 18 months, and Ed has lots of experience developing the Visual FoxPro Codebook framework. We decided to work together to make a framework for developing robust data-centric applications for multi-platform deployment. Weve come up with a design that is simple, flexible, and robust, and weve begun developing our own client applications using the Dabo framework.
Dabo is not complete, but is very capable now for many needs.
Currently, Dabo only supports MySQL and Firebird backends (with PostgreSQL almost done), but in the near future it will support all databases that have drivers that conform to the Python dbapi. These databases include:
- MySQL (already supported)
- PostgreSQL(already supported)
- Firebird (already supported)
- Oracle
- DB2
- MS-SQL and MSDE
- Sybase
- PySQLite
- Berkeley DB

MP3html is a utility for generating listings of MP3 files based on their ID3 tags and information such as bitrate, duration, and file size. Because it makes use of template files and is script-friendly, it can easily be used to create just about any kind of list you can think of. Its most common use is creating HTML lists for peoples web pages (thus its name).
Originally, it was just a hacked together interface for some ID3 routines I coded because I was bored, but since then it has evolved into something that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a useful program.Of course, because its flexible, it can be used for anything from creating playlists to making SQL databases.
If I may take some time to toot my own horn, I have to say that MP3html is pretty freakin awesome. Ive been able to use it to do so many kinds of MP3 manipulations I never dreamed of that its frightening. Ive started writing scripts so you can duplicate other programs (like id3ren) with it and now that Ive added preset templates, the possibilities are nearly endless. If only I could get sorting to work....
As of the release of 1.3.0, MP3html is undergoing heavy testing and development. All the code from 1.2.4 has been deleted and I started over again with the goals of better performance and more configurability. Im happy to say that Ive achieved both goals. Once I get the 1.3.X series stabilized and all the features added, I will release version 2.0.0 and stop active development for awhile so I can concentrate on redoing my web pages and working on some other programming projects.
MP3html works by reading information from MP3s files and then using templates containg codes like $FILENAME and $ARTIST to create configurable lists of MP3s. This section should show you how to use it. For information about the tags that go in the template files, check out the file TAGS.
Enhancements:
- fixed segfaults with footers and headers in presets (hopefully)
- removed those neat error messages for fopen/malloc/realloc in favor of ones which were actually useful and small
- fixed error in llist.c/ll_delete_list() that would cause segfaults if there was only one file specified
- once again, patched to properly calculate song times - fixed problem with long ID3v2 tags so everything *should* work fine
- added "-m --middle-text" which is the exact same as the "-t --template" option. In reality, -t should have been -m but Im leaving it in for backwards compatibility.

Ofnibot is a reincarnation of Kevin Lenzos Infobot in minimalist form. Kevin Lenzos Infobot program (http://www.infobot.org/) is an awesome IRC bot that is used on many IRC channels around the world.

Unfortunately, Infobot has become somewhat large in its old age. Since I maintain a number of IRC channels that require an information bot, my goal was to create an Infobot-compatible bot from the ground up. This bot is fast, secure, and modern.

The core function of the Infobot is to store a knowledge base of "factoids" or facts about things. The knowledge base can then be accessed and updated using common English phrases.

Ofnibot (Ofni = Info spelled backwards) is meant to provide that same core functionality without the bloat of the Infobot code. Ofnibot uses the modern POE::Component::IRC module to interface with IRC and, more importantly, it uses commands and files that are fully compatible with the original Infobot. The entire program comes in at just over 300 lines of Perl.

Because Ofnibot was programmed from the ground up and does not use any of the Infobot code, I cannot guarantee it behaves exactly the same when responding to users. It does, however, provide an exact subset of Infobot commands and can use the exact same database files as the Infobot. It can easily work as a drop-in replacement.