Free os 3.6 software for linux

Kate OS Live is a live CD edition of Kate OS 3.0 Beta which is now available for download and testing.
KateOS LIVE 3.0beta is now available. This version includes most of desktop applications and features Xfce as the graphical environment. It should be especially interesting for those who would like to help us in testing but do not have enough disk space.
The LIVE edition is a complete operating system with automatic hardware detection and auto-mount of all accessible partitions which will let you begin a fully effective work in just a few minutes.
Kate OS is a multitasking operating system which provides all that is necessary for programmers, webmasters, administrators and home users. The most important Kate OS features are high efficiency, safety, reliability and low system requirements. Kate OS provides full support for generally used multimedia.
Kate OS is a perfect combination of Linux power and utility. The complexity of installed software makes using the system comfortable, immediately after the installation process. Looking for a perfect solution for the experienced UNIX user? Kate OS is perhaps the best one.
Enhancements:
- The second beta of KateOS 3.6 is now available. It contains many changes, both important and purely cosmetic ones, such as: new update notifier; new 2.6.21.4 kernel; X.Org 7.2; the newest versions of KDE 3.5.7, GNOME 2.18.2 and Xfce 4.4.1, OpenOffice.org 2.2.0, and many more. The CORE edition also includes a partial French translation of the installer. The second beta also has a lot of bugs eliminated (including some in the KateOS LIVE installer). Everyone is invited to test and share the experience on the KateOS project forum.

Scid project consists of a chess database.

Scid is a powerful chess database application with many search features.

Its GUI makes entering chess games fast and easy, and you can search games by exact position, material, player names, and many other criteria.

It does not come with any actual file of chess games, but it can convert databases to/from the popular PGN format which is widely used for chess games.

Pyro project is a set of tools for programming mobile robots in Python.
It is a library, GUI, and set of objects in Python that allows beginning and experienced roboticists alike to easily control mobile robots.
It comes with a simulator, and also works with Player/Stage/ Gazebo.
Hardware supported includes ActivMedias Pioneer, K-Teams Khepera and Hemisson, Sonys AIBO, Evolutions ER1, and others.
It also contains Python code for artificial neural networks, genetic algorithm/programming, vision (V4L), self-organizing maps, mapping, localization, and more AI-related code.
Main features:
- Open source - available for study, or changing
- Designed for students, faculty and researchers
- Works on many real robotics platforms and simulators
- Extensive course modules include control methods, vision (motion tracking, blobs, etc.), learning (neural networks, reinforcement learning, self-organizing maps, etc.), evolutionary algorithms, and more.

The Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer creates three-dimensional, photo-realistic images using a rendering technique called ray-tracing. It reads in a text file containing information describing the objects and lighting in a scene and generates an image of that scene from the view point of a camera also described in the text file.
The Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer(tm) was developed from DKBTrace 2.12 (written by David K. Buck and Aaron A. Collins) by a bunch of people (called the POV-Team?) in their spare time. The headquarters of the POV-Team is on the internet (see "Where to Find POV-Ray Files" for more details).
The POV-Ray package includes detailed instructions on using the ray-tracer and creating scenes. Many stunning scenes are included with POV-Ray so you can start creating images immediately when you get the package. These scenes can be modified so you do not have to start from scratch.
In addition to the pre-defined scenes, a large library of pre-defined shapes and materials is provided. You can include these shapes and materials in your own scenes by just including the library file name at the top of your scene file, and by using the shape or material name in your scene.
Ray-tracing is not a fast process by any means, but it produces very high quality images with realistic reflections, shading, perspective and other effects.
Ray-tracing is a rendering technique that calculates an image of a scene by simulating the way rays of light travel in the real world. However it does its job backwards. In the real world, rays of light are emitted from a light source and illuminate objects. The light reflects off of the objects or passes through transparent objects. This reflected light hits our eyes or perhaps a camera lens. Because the vast majority of rays never hit an observer, it would take forever to trace a scene.
Ray-tracing programs like POV-Ray start with their simulated camera and trace rays backwards out into the scene. The user specifies the location of the camera, light sources, and objects as well as the surface texture properties of objects, their interiors (if transparent) and any atmospheric media such as fog, haze, or fire.
For every pixel in the final image one or more viewing rays are shot from the camera, into the scene to see if it intersects with any of the objects in the scene. These "viewing rays" originate from the viewer, represented by the camera, and pass through the viewing window (representing the final image).
Every time an object is hit, the color of the surface at that point is calculated. For this purpose rays are sent backwards to each light source to determine the amount of light coming from the source. These "shadow rays" are tested to tell whether the surface point lies in shadow or not. If the surface is reflective or transparent new rays are set up and traced in order to determine the contribution of the reflected and refracted light to the final surface color.
Special features like inter-diffuse reflection (radiosity), atmospheric effects and area lights make it necessary to shoot a lot of additional rays into the scene for every pixel.
Main features:
- Easy to use scene description language.
- Large library of stunning example scene files.
- Standard include files that pre-define many shapes, colors and textures.
- Very high quality output image files (up to 48-bit color).
- 16 and 24 bit color display on many computer platforms using appropriate hardware.
- Create landscapes using smoothed height fields.
- Many camera types, including perspective, orthographic, fisheye, etc.
- Spotlights, cylindrical lights and area lights for sophisticated lighting.
- Photons for realistic, reflected and refracted, caustics. Photons also interact with media.
- Phong and specular highlighting for more realistic-looking surfaces.
- Inter-diffuse reflection (radiosity) for more realistic lighting.
- Atmospheric effects like atmosphere, ground-fog and rainbow.
- Particle media to model effects like clouds, dust, fire and steam.
- Several image file output formats including Targa, BMP (Windows only), PNG and PPM.
- Basic shape primitives such as ... spheres, boxes, quadrics, cylinders, cones, triangle and planes.
- Advanced shape primitives such as ... Tori (donuts), bezier patches, height fields (mountains), blobs, quartics, smooth triangles, text, superquadrics, surfaces of revolution, prisms, polygons, lathes, fractals, isosurfaces and the parametric object.
- Shapes can easily be combined to create new complex shapes using Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG). POV-Ray supports unions, merges, intersections and differences.
- Objects are assigned materials called textures (a texture describes the coloring and surface properties of a shape) and interior properties such as index of refraction and particle media (formerly known as "halos").
- Built-in color and normal patterns: Agate, Bozo, Bumps, Checker, Crackle, Dents, Granite, Gradient, Hexagon, Leopard, Mandel, Marble, Onion, Quilted, Ripples, Spotted, Spiral, Radial, Waves, Wood, Wrinkles and image file mapping. Or build your own pattern using functions.
- Users can create their own textures or use pre-defined textures such as ... Brass, Chrome, Copper, Gold, Silver, Stone, Wood.
- Combine textures using layering of semi-transparent textures or tiles of textures or material map files.
- Display preview of image while rendering (not available on all platforms).
- Halt and save a render part way through, and continue rendering the halted partial render later.

DynDNS was originally founded to provide quality dynamic DNS services to the Internet and we continue to offer our free Dynamic DNS. In addition, we offer other services that might be of interest to a home user.
DynDNS is a focused and savvy DNS provider, specializing in dynamic DNS and complementary services. DynDNS is a private, internally funded and stable company.
We have no investors looking over our shoulders nor do we worry about our stock value. We run an efficient and profitable organization and pass these savings on to our customers. We are technologists that develop high quality services and our goal is to be the value provider of DNS services.
The free Dynamic DNS service allows you to alias a dynamic IP address to a static hostname in any of the many domains we offer, allowing your computer to be more easily accessed from various locations on the Internet. We provide this service, for up to five (5) hostnames, free to the Internet community.
The Dynamic DNS service is ideal for a home website, file server, or just to keep a pointer back to your home PC so you can access those important documents while youre at work.
Using one of the available third-party update clients you can keep your hostname always pointing to your IP address, no matter how often your ISP changes it. No more fumbling to find that piece of paper where you wrote down your IP address, or e-mailing all your friends every time it changes. Just tell them to visit yourname.dyndns.org instead!
Main features:
- Hostnames in 68 domains
- Wildcarding, allowing *.yourhost.dyndns.org to point to yourhost.dyndns.org
- Offline URL redirection
- MX records, allowing for flexible e-mail configurations
- Clients for a wide variety of platforms
- An open, non-proprietary update interface
- Almost instantaneous DNS propagation time
- Free, industry leading e-mail support
- 5 DNS servers in 4 redundant tier-1 datacenters around the globe
Enhancements:
- support for olitec-SX200
- added sample-etc_rc.d_init.d_ddclient.lsb as a sample script for lsb-compliant systems.
- support for linksys wrt854g (thanks to Nick Triantos)
- support for linksys ver 3
- support for Thomson (Alcatel) SpeedTouch 510 (thanks to Aldoir)
- Cosmetic fixes submitted by John Owens

fig2ps is a perl script which converts xfig files to postscript or PDF, processing text with LaTeX. fig2pss primary aim is to produce documents (such as articles) with a high quality, in which the pictures are seamlessly integrated with the text (notably, the font in the figures is exactly the same as in the text).

The way to use it is simple : draw your picture with xfig, marking all text as special (there is one way to force this, look at the manual page). Then, invoke fig2ps on your xfig file. Then, you can integrate the picture in a LaTeX document by simply saying, for instance, includegraphics{file}

Firemacs 3.6 will improve your browser's capability greatly. It is designed as a Firefox addon that adds Emacs's editing features. You can also enjoy "less"-like motions in non-input elements.

shorten is a fast, low complexity waveform coder (i.e. audio compressor), originally written by Tony Robinson at SoftSound. It can operate in both lossy and lossless modes. More information can be found here.
The last official version released by Tony was 2.3a. In the fall of 2000, I started hacking on the code to add unix support for seek tables, which Wayne Stielau had developed and implemented for the Windows platform. With his help, I was able to release version 3.0 on 9/29/2000, and have maintained the unix 3.x versions ever since. Seek tables allow one to seek through a .shn file in real-time while playing it in various audio players.
Here are some of plugins that support seek tables:
xmms-shn (for XMMS)
ShnAmp (for WinAmp)
foo_shn (for foobar2000)
in_shn (for J River Media Jukebox/Center)
Shorten plugin (for MacAmp Lite X - now defunct)
Enhancements:
- Fixed a seek table bug which, in rare cases, caused seek tables for certain files (e.g. ones that end with silence) to be generated incorrectly. Seek tables created with the -k, -s or -S options are not affected. To help distinguish older, possibly buggy seek tables from newer ones, the seek table revision number has been bumped from 0 to 1. Thanks to Peter Kunath for the report and the fix.
- Updated the -i option to determine whether a file is an external seek table file, a file with seek tables appended, or neither. If seek tables are present, the seek table revision number is now shown.