Free cars software for linux

Stormbaan Coureur is a simulated obstacle course for automobiles. n this game, your objective is to drive your car along an obstacle course. Success depends on total control of the car, and making use of the laws of physics.
Enhancements:
- New name
- Extended track with half pipe jump
- Extended track with turn tables
- Fixed joystick accelerator axis assigment
- Softened the suspension
- Added brake-light
- Added reverse-gear-light
- Improved leaderboard
- Added respawn points

LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is a set of PHP scripts that interact with MySQL or MSSQL to develop surveys, publish surveys, and collect responses to surveys. Once a survey has been created, data can be inserted into the survey either by a "pretty" public screen which presents each question one at a time, or by a quick and nasty data entry screen.
The project includes the capacity to generate individualized "tokens", so that invitations can be issued to participants. It also has the capacity to set conditions on whether questions will display (branching), numerous question types, and a basic statistics function.
Main features:
- Unlimited number of surveys at the same time
- Creation of a printable survey version
- Unlimited number of question groups in a survey
- Unlimited numbers of questions in a group/survey
- 20 different question types with more to come
- Ability to set conditions for questions depending on earlier answers (branching the survey)
- Re-usable editable answer sets
- Ready-made importable questions
- Assessment surveys
- Unlimited number of participants to a survey
- Anonymous or open surveys as well as closed surveys
- Optional public registration for surveys
- Sending of invitations, reminders and tokens by email
- Option for participants to buffer answers to continue survey at a later time
- Cookie or session based surveys
- Template editor for creating your own page layout
- Extended and user-friendly administration interface
- Back-office data entry possibility
- Survey start & end-dates for automation
- Enhanced import and export functions to text, CSV and MS Excel format
- Basic statistical and graphical analysis with export facility
Supporting more than 20 different languages in frontend and backend:
- Bulgarian
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Croatian
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovene
- Spanish
- Turkish
- Swedish
- Vietnamese
- ....more to come
- Detailed manual in six languages included in the download or as Online Manual
Enhancements:
- The most import new features are a new user management system, MSSQL compatibility using adodb, multi-lingual surveys (which allow you to conduct the same survey in several languages at the same time), new Question Types, a complete overhaul of the new administrative GUI, online documentation, and more than 9 additional languages (25 in total).
- Lots of other improvements have been made in handling and installing.

Tgauge displays lm_sensor readings with gauge-style graphics on GNOME or ROX panels or in a window.

Tgauge is a tool for displaying lm_sensors readings. Instead of boring old numbers, tgauge uses graphical representations designed to look like the gauges on a car dashboard. Or anything else if you care to make a theme for it. tgauge stands for temperature gauge because I designed it mainly for monitoring my CPU temperature.

Tgauge can be run in a window, but its really meant for use on a panel; it supports the Gnome (version 2) and ROX panels.

Installation:
Download the appropriate package from the Sourceforge files page. Youll probably need to compile it. For ROX this will happen automatically the first time you run the program from the ROX filer. For Gnome use:

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

then add the applet to the panel using the menu.

Roadnav is an in-car navigation system that can run on a variety of operating systems like Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
Roadnav can obtain a cars present location from a GPS unit, plot street maps of the area, and provide verbal turn by turn directions to any location in the USA.
Roadnav uses the free TIGER/Line files from the US Census Bureau to build the maps, along with the GNIS state and topical gazetteer data from the USGS to identify locations.
Main features:
- Generates street level maps for the US
- Interfaces with GPS units to display your position in real time
- Verbal turn by turn directions to any place in the US. Automatically recomputes directions if you miss a turn.
- On screen keyboard
- 3D (drivers perspective) view mode
- Daytime and nighttime color schemes
- Automatic day/night mode switching
- Plots nearby landmarks and points of interest
- Can operate offline (without an Internet connection)
- Antialiased output
- Supports multiple operating systems including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X
- Uses freely available data from the US Census Bureau and the USGS
- Appearance can be customized with skins
- Can output status information to LCD devices through LCDproc
Enhancements:
Enhancements:
- Adds option to Preferences to enable gpsd buffering (reduces jitter).
- Adds experimental GPX import support.
- Disk usage reduced by ~30%.
- Adds GPS serial initialization string option to Preferences.
- Adds preference to override default map directory.
- Adds option for username/password proxy authentication.
- Adds "Use System Proxy Settings" preference, which reads proxy settings from the HTTP_PROXY environmental variable.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixes Delete button in Waypoints dialog when no waypoints exist.
- Workaround for buggy serial implementations.
- Fixes Windows 2000 compatibility.
- Fixes i18n issue in OSM code.
- Improved address look up.
- Eliminates IPP error messages when printer is not configured.
- Improved compatibility with DeLorme Tripmate and Earthmate GPS units.
- Win32 floating point model changed from fast to precise. Should resolve problems calculating routes.
- Fixes focusing issue in keyboard dialog.
Developer Visible Changes:
- MapControlData_Tiles index files eliminated.
- Direct access to Point::m_fLong and Point::m_fLat eliminated. Use the Point::Set* and Point::Get* functions instead.
Misc:
- Compiled maps now organized in a more human readable format.
- Eliminates TIGER/Line 2006 First Edition from search path.
- Proxy settings now on their own preferences page.
- When maps have to be upgraded, adds option to not upgrade map files and immediately terminate Roadnav instead.
- Small map labels now have a solid background instead of a cross hatch.

Vamos Automotive Simulator project, as the name suggest is an automotive simulation framework with an emphasis on thorough physical modeling and good C++ design. Vamos includes a real-time, first-person, 3D driving application.

Vamos is young and its goals are only partially met. I invite anyone whos interested to contribute.

Thorough physical modeling

Vamos models most major systems of a car. The drivetrain includes a simulation of the engine, clutch, transmission and a limited-slip differential. Tires and suspension are also modeled. If I missed something, let me know.

Good C++ Design

The geometry, track, car and world modules are in their own namespaces. Care has been taken to avoid cyclic dependencies. Standard Library components like strings, vectors and maps are favored over arrays. Some of the modules and classes have aged more gracefully than others. If you see a design area that needs improvement, feel free to pitch in.

Virgil projetc is an new, object-oriented, light-weight programming language that is designed for building software for resource-constrained embedded systems at the lowest level. Microcontroller programmers can now develop complete software systems, including hardware drivers and OS services, in one language, without the need to resort to unsafe libraries or native code.
Virgil also provides a whole-program compiler system that applies novel global optimization techniques to produce efficient machine code that runs directly on the hardware, without the need of a virtual machine or a language runtime system.
Why are microcontrollers important?
Embedded computers are everywhere. While the desktop computer revolution has brought computing to millions of users worldwide, the embedded system revolution has been quietly automating the world we live in--everything from the cars we drive to the roadways we drive them on; from factory production to the goods we use every day. In 2005, nearly 6 billion microcontroller units were manufactured. Today, microcontrollers outnumber people on this planet by more than 5 to 1. Soon, most electronic devices will have a software-programmable embedded computer with capabilities ranging from simple arithmetic to wireless communication, and microcontrollers offer a compelling solution for many of these products.
How is software for embedded systems different?
Software in this environment has very different requirements than traditional desktop and server computers. First, embedded programs must control devices that sense and interact with the physical world, in contrast to desktop and server software that is driven by databases, websites, and input from users. Second, embedded systems often operate in safety critical real-time scenarios, where software is tasked with controlling physical processes and actuators that can pose physical danger to people, infrastructure, and the environment. Third, the cost of software update for billions of devices makes it largely infeasible, vastly increasing the importance of software verification.
How can new language technology help?
Advances in programming languages over the past 30 years have yielded demonstrable productivity gains, including better static checking, more expressiveness, and better portability and maintability. Yet these advances have not been put into practical use in developing embedded systems software. The continued use of unsafe, low-level languages that frustrate automated program reasoning and verification poses a significant stumbling block to progress. While no magic bullet exists for software development, we believe that applying modern technology to this problem will produce real, tangible gains in both software quality and efficiency.
Main features:
Object-oriented Features
- Classes and single-inheritance
- Virtual methods
- Constructors
- Orphan classes
- Always pass by reference
Procedural Features
- Components
- Loops
- Switches
- Statements
Functional Features
- Delegates
- Aggressive inlining *
- Tail call optimization *
Other
- Arrays
- Bit-level types
- Compile-time Application Initialization
- Hardware register access
- Interrupt handlers
- Well-defined language semantics
- Heap optimization
- Exceptions *
- = the implementation of this feature is not yet complete in prototype compiler