Free not even software for linux

TorK project offers a CD that allows you to use TorK on any computer.

This is a so-called LiveCD. You put it in the CD-Rom drive, turn on your computer and within a few minutes you will be using a Linux system with TorK and Tor running on it. The CD works without installing anything on the computer you use it on.

The CD is still experimental and not feature complete. It may not even be fully secure yet.

ComputeMode project is an Icatis product that extends an organizations Computational Grid through aggregation of unused computing resources.
For instance, ComputeMode lets a virtual cluster to be built using employees PCs at their idle times. Practically most PCs in large companies are not used at night, on weekends, and during employee vacations, training periods or business trips.
So ComputeMode allows you to take the benefits of the powerful computation infrastructure you already have, but you are not aware of!
Another interesting use of ComputeMode is within computer classrooms, where PCs can be automatically harnessed into a virtual cluster when they are not being used (night, week-ends, holidays).
ComputeMode relies on a ComputeMode Server that keeps track of the availability of some dedicated PCs on the local network. Each PC Owner has a weekly availability Schedule, identifying periods when he or she is not using his/her PC. For instance, a PC owner can declare working periods from 8:00 to 18:00, Monday to Friday.
In the remainder of this document, we will refer to PCs handled by ComputeMode as Processing Nodes.
The ComputeMode Administrator can easily manage the computing PCs through a Web-based interface, accessed through the ComputeMode Server.
A Grid User can submit some computational Jobs to the system through the use of a classical Batch Manager (also called "Job Management System", "Distributed Resource Managers", or "Queuing System").
The Grid User can log onto the Batch Manager from any machine of the local network (usually through the "ssh" secure shell). The Batch Manager will then reserve appropriate resources for the computations, Schedule the execution of the Jobs depending on the overall load on the Computing Grid and allocate Jobs to available computing resources.
The OAR Batch Manager is installed by default with ComputeMode, even though other products such as Platform LSF, OpenPBS or Sun Grid Engine are supported by ComputeMode.
ComputeMode can monitor the load on the Batch Manager, and detect overloads. In such cases it can allocate available Processing Nodes to computational tasks.
Each Processing Node has two different operating modes:
- The User Mode, in which the machine is working in its standard way under Microsoft Windows for instance. The Owner of the machine will not even notice that his or her PC is managed as a ComputeMode Processing Node. In particular, the computational resources of the PC will not be used while in User Mode.
- The Computation Mode (this is where the name of our product comes from) is activated when the machine is in a time period where the PC is declared as "idle". In case the ComputeMode Server detects some computational peak, the PC can be remotely switched to Computation Mode. The switch from user mode is done through an automatic reboot of the machine and proceeds to a remote boot. The remote boot is handled by the ComputeMode Server with the "Preboot eXecution Environment" (PXE) protocol, which is natively available from the BIOS of PCs since 1999. While in Computation Mode, the machine is running under the Linux Operating System, and does not have any access to any local hard disk.
When the ComputeMode Server detects that some given Processing Node is no longer available for computation, it restores the machine back to its User Mode, so that the Owner will not even notice that his or her PC has been used by ComputeMode.
The submitted Jobs can take advantage of the NFS distributed file system, which is made available from the ComputeMode Server. Each Grid User has his or her own private directory and can use it for data required by the computational Jobs, as well as to retrieve the produced output files.
A specific case may happen if a PC Owner comes back and needs his or her PC while a computational Job is being processed. This can happen, for instance, if the Owner has an urgent need and comes back at night to work on his/her PC. In such a situation, the owner always has priority over the machine. Just by using the keyboard, the Owner can abort any ongoing computational activity on his/her PC, and ComputeMode will restore the machine to its User Mode in about one minute.
Enhancements:
- UI usability improvements, code cleanup, and fixes were made.
- The client and server system were upgraded.
- New, simpler node import/export was added.
- It is available as a virtual appliance.

Docbkx Maven Plugin project provides a number of tools for supporting DocBook in a Maven environment. This may seem odd to you, since
1) Maven 2 is supposed to support DocBook natively, relying on Doxia, and
2) there is already another DocBook plugin at mojo.codehaus.org.
The thruth however is that DocBook support in Doxia is fairly limited, mainly because Doxia as a framework supports only a small fraction of the concepts found in DocBook. The subset of DocBook supported by Doxia is not even close to simplified DocBook.
The DocBook plugin at mojo.codehaus.org is supporting a wider range of DocBook markup, and is in fact more similar to the DocBook tools provided with this project. There are however some significant differences:
- The focus is on ease of use.
- You should not be required to install additional stuff to your hard disk in order to generate content from your DocBook sources. Simply adding a reference to the plugin in your POM should be sufficient.
- This project focuses on providing dedicated support for particular DocBook XSL stylesheet distributions. That means you can rely on the dedicated parameterization mechanism of Maven Plugins to pass in the XSLT parameters defined for a particular version and type of XSLT stylesheet.
- In the DocBook Plugin found at mojo.codehaus.org, you will be required to download a specific version of the DocBook XSL stylesheets manually. The plugins packaged contain the stylesheets as well. (In this project, a particular version of the stylesheets is closely tied to a particular version of the plugin. That you means you can always rely on the plugins documentation to know which parameters you could pass in.)
- The DocBook plugin found at mojo.codehaus.org requires you to have access to the Internet in order allow the plugin to resolve URIs. The plugins provided in this project act differently: if your DocBook sources are referening to a DTD, then you can simply add a dependency to a jar file containing the DTD and related entities, and the plugin will make sure that all references will be resolved correctly.
Enhancements:
- Support for Eclipse help files was added.

Taggee is a platform indepentent tagging server.

Taggee project has an HTTP interface for easy integration with applications in need of tagging and even has an HTML interface for use as a standalone bookmark server.

pouetChess is a 3D and open source chess game.

pouetChess is a chess game for Linux with very few and basic dependencies. Moreover pouetChess has an embedded Artificial Intelligence so engines such as GNUChess are not even needed.

... pouetChess was a game I wrote for a project at school (IUP GMI Avignon(french)).
I quickly realized there were very few chess games for Linux so I decided to continue it. Actually I think the juice is worth the squeeze and we will finally have a good and pretty chess game for Linux...

Unfortunately I wrote it completely in french so for now the source code is quite useless but Im working on it and its one of the things who have to be done for the next release. But dont worry, I already translated the interface and you can play in english.

BootUtils project is a collection of utilities to facilitate booting of modern Kernel 2.6 based systems. BootUtils is designed for initramfs, although volunteers to add support for initrd are welcome.
The process of finding the root volume either by label or explicit label= on the kernel command line, mounting it and switchrooting is automated.
BootUtils can also drop to emergency shell if the root volume cannot be mounted. Why not even start sshd and allow admin login if the box is in a remote location?
Main features:
- Automatic detection of root volume by label or explicit kernel commandline option
- Supports ext2, ext3, jfs, reiserfs and xfs
- Emergency shell dropping in the case of a root volume problem
Enhancements:
- libblkid and libuuid have been updated to e2fsprogs 1.39.
- Device mapper support has been added.

Jinamp is primarily a music shuffler for command line junkies. Jinamp runs in the background and does not require X or even a terminal.
A control program allows limited control over the playing (pause, next song, etc., but no seeking).
The actual playing is done by other programs, so it can be adapted for other purposes, such as shuffling video clips for advertising.
Enhancements:
- The control tools have been improved, in particular making once-off song requests possible.

MultiSessionX is a fast user switching implementation for X11 utilizing VNC for persistent sessions. It provides a choosable menu via xdialog or xmessage. It supports Linux, FreeBSD, and Irix.
Main features:
- Support for xdialog and xmessage (xmessage provided for legacy support -- use xdialog instead). Support planned for zenity.
- Maintain multiple user logins from a single terminal without logging users out.
- Reconnect to sessions from another terminal.
- Multiple sessions per-user.
- Mulitple connections to a single session. (vnc -shared)
- Allows creation of non-persistent sessions -- starts window manager normally to support features not available through VNC (high-speed video, opengl)
Note: use with xdialog and an X11 login manager can be very similar to the behavior AND visual appearance of Windows 2003 with Terminal Services. I should note that this project was started early 2002, well before Windows 2003 was released! Just in case you were wondering ;-)
Licensed under the general BSD license (no advertising clause).
Version restrictions:
- VNC has a lot of bugs and limitations. For instance, it does not support OpenGL or XV visuals. "Non-persistent" sessions provided as work-around. Also, VNC "messes up", causing visual artifacts.
- Does not work with Zenity at all, not even its gdialog emulation