Free production software for linux

Sanselan is a Pure-Java library reads & writes a variety of image formats, including fast parsing of image metadata (size, color space, icc profile, etc.).

This library is pure Java. Its slow, consequently, but perfectly portable. Its easier to use than ImageIO/JAI/Toolkit (Sun/Javas image support), supports more formats (and supports them more correctly). It also provides easy access to metadata.

Although not yet version 1.0, sanselan is working and is use by a number of projects in production.

It is Open Source; free as in freedom and free as in beer.

SystemImager is software that automates Linux installs, software distribution, and production deployment.
SystemImager makes it easy to do automated installs (clones), software distribution, content or data distribution, configuration changes, and operating system updates to your network of Linux machines. You can even update from one Linux release version to another!
It can also be used to ensure safe production deployments. By saving your current production image before updating to your new production image, you have a highly reliable contingency mechanism. If the new production enviroment is found to be flawed, simply roll-back to the last production image with a simple update command!
Some typical environments include: Internet server farms, database server farms, high performance clusters, computer labs, and corporate desktop environments.
Whats New in 3.8.2 Stable Release:
- fixed a bug in the monitoring: REBOOTED state was not properly reported in some minimal image (without the command which)
- added "--config FILE" option to si_prepareclient and si_mkbootpackage (and removed from si_mkautoinstalldisk: the option must be used in commands that explicitly create an initrd.img from initrd_template)
- do not hard-code common patterns of exclusion in si_getimage (created the configuration file /etc/systemimager/getimage.exclude)
- si_getimage didnt stop correctly the rsync daemon in the golden client, using rsync over ssh for the image retrieval
Whats New in 3.9.2 Development Release:
- Added support for the PS3 architecture
- Improved support and compatibility with Debian (now deb packages can be automatically built from source using the new target "make deb")
- updated BOEL kernel to 2.6.21 (for i386 and x86_64)
- fixed a bug that broke si_mkautoinstalldisk
- free unused RAM of the initramfs (only with cpio initrd.img) after switching to tmpfs
- updated udev to udev_108-0ubuntu4
- support old versions of the BitTorrent client (better compatibilty with *Ubuntu)
- fixed a lib/lib64 bug with ppc64
- fixed a bug in si_monitor daemon that didnt start correctly when the directory /var/lock/systemimager was not present
- added missing manpages
- remount the filesystems in read-only before giving-up when the umount fails at the end of the installation
- create all the swap partitions before the other filesystems in the autoinstall script: this avoids potential OOM conditions that could occur during the filesystem creation
- removed unused coreutils package from initrd.img
- removed unmaintained package imagemanip
- removed deprecated command si_mkbootmedia

SeaMonkey projetc is a web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application.

The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite".

Whereas the main focus of the Mozilla Foundation is on Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, our group of dedicated volunteers works to ensure that you can have "everything but the kitchen sink" — and have it stable enough for corporate use.

Hpodder is a tool to scan and download podcasts. Such tools are often called podcatchers.
Hpodder is a command-line tool for Linux. The project has quite a few features. A few highlights are that it is easy to learn and use, has automatic discovery of feed metadata, and can import iPodder settings.
Enhancements:
- This is the first production release.
- Feeds or episodes that repeatedly return errors are now automatically pruned.
- Cleaning of download areas was improved.
- Bugs were fixed.

Frepple is a Free Production Planning Library.
Plenty of planning tools are available for various production problems, different subprocess, different solver techniques.... A bit suprising, no proper solutions exist in the open source domain. Users often are left with expensive and inflexible tools and resort to spreadsheets to meet their needs.
This project aims at building an open source lightweight framework that easily and quickly delivers a solution for production planning problems. The initial focus is on small to medium sized master planning problems for the discrete manufacturing industry.
For the developer community, the project is also trying to establish a common ground framework for planning applications. Rather than building the basic building blocks (e.g. item, buffer, bill of material, ...) from scratch over and over again, developers can leverage a proven framework to extend with their own extension modules.
Main features:
- Modeling and solving framework for discrete manufacturing environments.
Key modeling constructs are:
- Item
- Buffer
- Resource
- Operation
- Demand
See here for a short domain model (requires Acrobat Reader).
A complete class diagram and API reference are available to developers.
- Heuristic, "MRP-like" solving algorithm respecting capacity, material and leadtime constraints.
- XML-based data input and output.
- Extensible and customizable architecture.
New modeling constructs and solving algorithms can be developed in C++ and loaded as a plugin module.
- The browser-based user interface and underlying database schema are based on the powerful Django framework.
Both can very easily be extended and customized.
- Embeds Python as scripting language.
Allows for flexible and easy integration and customization.
- Frepple comes as a library developed in C++.
It has no graphical user interface as such and requires to be deployed in a application.
Different applications are envisioned:
- Standalone application for use at the command line
- Microsoft Excel frontend
- Accessable from programming languages such as java, python, perl or visual basic
- Can be linked into your own C or C++ application
- Apache module for browser based user interface and network based access
- Supported on 32-bit linux and Windows environments, with Linux being the primary development platform.
Porting to other platforms is discussed under the developer section of the documentation.
- Licenced under the GNU lesser general public license.
Learn here how this license protects my and your work.
- To finish, a pretty bold statement
Frepple will be the worlds first true open source advanced planning system.
Enhancements:
- A major update in the user interface: all-in-one installation of the user interface, Python, Web server, and database.
- Big performance improvements in the user interface.
- Support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite databases.
- The forecast module has been greatly improved, and allows for forecast distribution and netting of orders against forecast.
- There are important bugfixes.