Free owl software for linux

Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or "aggregators" RSSOwl is such an application.
RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more.
Its easy to configure, available in many many languages and the best of all: Its platform-independent.
RSS ("Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary") is a document specification that gives users the power to collect and organize Web-based news and information in a more efficient manner.
The owl is a traditional symbol of wisdom, and a quiet, efficient hunter. Youll find RSSOwls "big eyes" a big help when scanning the Webs vast array of RSS sources.
Main features:
- Import your favorite newsfeeds using the OPML format. Most newsreaders support the export of newsfeeds via OPML, making it very easy to switch to RSSOwl and have your bookmarked favorites inside RSSOwl.
- Bookmark your favorite newsfeeds in nested categories. Set properties like "auto-update-interval", "open on startup" or "reload on startup".
- RSSOwl helps you finding a suitable title for your favorites. Just click the "Grab title from newsfeed" button and RSSOwl will scan the newsfeed for the title and use it for the new favorite.
- Create collections of newsfeeds other may subscribe to. A subscription is a file that contains newsfeeds. Placing the subscription online will allow others to subscribe to that collection and have the same newsfeeds inside RSSOwl. The subscription is updated each time RSSOwl is starting.
- Switch on the internal browser to read news that contain HTML. Some newsfeeds use this kind of technique to include images and links.
- Select a newsfeed, a single news or an entire category of newsfeeds to export the content into one of the formats PDF, RTF or HTML. When exporting news into PDF, RSSOwl will create bookmarks showing the titles of all news. These are very helpfull when searching for a particular news inside the PDF document.
- RSSOwls internal panels are highly customizable. Choose between a 2-column and a 3-column layout. Hide and restore the tree containing all favorites and the quickview box. Maximize the tabfolder with a single click in order to view a website inside the internal browser with full size.
- A lot of search-options make RSSOwl a powerful application to search inside a newsfeed or an entire category. The boolean operators "and", "or" and "not" may be combined with the search-term. Common options to only match a whole word, regard case-sensitivity or to use regular expressions are allowed. Results are displayed in the tabfolder and each keyword is highlighted inside the newstext.
- AmphetaRate is a centralized ratings/recommendation service that provides personalized news and blog recommendations. Each news found in your subscribed feeds may be rated "Fantastic", "Good", "Moderate", "Bad" and "Very bad". Your recommendations are computed by Bayesian filtering and an algorithm finding people who share your taste.
- The integrated newsfeed-search engine allows to search for newsfeeds by keyword. Simply enter words like "News" or "Linux" and press the search button. Soon the engine will give out a list of newsfeeds. It is also possible to restrict the search to only match newsfeeds that have the same language that RSSOwl has set. Once the search has finished, import all of them into any category with a single click.
- Tired of copying and pasting newsfeeds out of a website into your newsreader? Simply enter the website containing links to newsfeeds into the feed-discovery and RSSOwl will show all the newsfeeds it has found. Import them into any category with a single click. Or enter the URL to an OPML file and gain access to its newsfeeds - its a breeze!
- The integrated feedvalidator allows to check the validity of a newsfeed. Any error or warning is shown inside the validator, together with the line-number. This feature makes the perfect tool for bloggers as theyre able to test their newsfeeds. RSSOwl provides support for RSS 0.91, 0.92 and 2.0 straight "out of the box".
- Access password protected newsfeeds. RSSOwl 1.0 is supporting the Base authentication which is the original and most compatible authentication scheme. But be prepared for RSSOwl 1.1 coming soon which will also support Digest and NTLM authentication that was introduced with HTTP 1.1.
- A small toolbar above the tree containing all favorites allowes to execute the commands "Reload All Favorites", "Aggregate All Favorites", "Search in all Favorites" and "Mark All Favorites Read". Believe us, its a handy feature. :-)
- Place RSSOwl into the system tray on minimization. As soon as RSSOwl is reloading a newsfeed and detects that new, unread news are available it will tell you so.
- RSSOwl is highly customizable. "Preferences" allow to change fonts, languages, colors, hotkeys and a lot more. Export settings into a file to import them into RSSOwl on a different computer. Switch fonts or make yourself comfortable with RSSOwl by choosing one of the 25 languages available - everything is just a few clicks away!

my Knowledge Explorer, in short mKE, is an intelligent knowledge assistant. mKE helps the user to record, change and search knowledge, and provides extensive error checking to ensure the internal consistency of the knowledge. mKE possesses self-knowledge -- just ask it (using the mKR language) what commands it can execute for you.
mKE command-line options select the language definitions -- RDF or OWL or CycL or mKR -- which are automatically loaded on startup. The CycL definitions include the complete Upper Ontology of the OpenCyc knowledge base.
mKE is implemented using the Unicon and KornShell and Java languages, providing easy integration with Unicon procedures, shell scripts, Linux/Windows commands, web pages and standard databases.
Enhancements:
- This release includes the OpenCyc Upper Ontology, which is automatically loaded with "-cyc" option.
- RDF and OWL language definitions are loaded with "-rdf" and "-owl" options.
- The mKR binary relation syntax was enhanced for easier translation of OWL files to mKR files.

Openwall tcb suite package contains core components of our tcb suite implementing the alternative password shadowing scheme on Owl.

It is being made available separately from Owl primarily for use by other distributions. Note that you need to have the password hashing framework introduced with crypt_blowfish patched into glibc to compile and use this.

The package consists of three components: pam_tcb, libnss_tcb, and libtcb.
pam_tcb is a PAM module which supersedes pam_unix. It also implements the tcb password shadowing scheme.

The tcb scheme allows many core system utilities (passwd(1) being the primary example) to operate with little privilege. libnss_tcb is the accompanying NSS module. libtcb contains code shared by the PAM and NSS modules and is also used by user management tools on Owl due to our shadow suite patches.

crypt_blowfish is a modern password hashing for your software and your servers.

This is an implementation of a modern password hashing algorithm, based on the Blowfish block cipher, provided via the crypt(3) and a reentrant interface. It is compatible with bcrypt (version 2a) by Niels Provos and David Mazieres, as used in OpenBSD.

The most important property of bcrypt (and thus crypt_blowfish) is that it is adaptable to future processor performance improvements, allowing you to arbitrarily increase the processing cost of checking a password while still maintaining compatibility with your older password hashes. Already now bcrypt hashes you would use are several orders of magnitude stronger than traditional Unix DES-based or FreeBSD-style MD5-based hashes.

Today, a number of other operating systems, besides OpenBSD, support bcrypt password hashes, with Niels original implementation, with this implementation (crypt_blowfish), or otherwise. These systems include recent versions of FreeBSD and NetBSD, Solaris 10, and indeed the Linux distributions which have integrated crypt_blowfish (see below for a list). Only some of these systems use bcrypt for newly set passwords by default, though.

This code comes from John the Ripper password cracker, and is placed in the public domain to let you use this on your system, as a part of a software package, or anywhere else to improve security, ensure compatibility, or for any other purpose.

Theres no license to worry about, not even a BSD-style copyright.

You can use the provided routines in your own packages or link them into a C library. Hooks for linking into GNU libc are provided. Note that simply adding this code into your libc is probably not enough to make your system use the new password hashing algorithm. Changes to passwd(1), PAM modules, or whatever else your system uses will likely be needed as well. These are not a part of this package, but theres pam_tcb in the Openwall GNU/*/Linux (Owl) tcb package which uses the password hashing framework provided by crypt_blowfish, and there are the Owl shadow suite patches (in particular, the crypt_gensalt patch) available from our CVSweb server.

ALT Linux project is a set of Linux distributions that are based on Sisyphus, an APT-enabled RPM package repository that aims to achieve feature completeness, usability, and security in a sensible and manageable mixture.
Enhancements:
- This release starts the Server branch of ALT Linux.
- It integrates the OpenVZ kernel, tools, and Web-based management interface allowing you to create and manage VPS templates and instances.
- The distribution shares security enhancements with the Owl GNU/*/Linux project, and is supported with regular updates for three years.
- It is available as i586/x86_64 ISOs, with several thousand more packages in the online repository.

SysVinits primary role is to create processes from a script stored in the file /etc/inittab.
Enhancements:
- Fixed up bootlogd to read /proc/cmdline. Also keep an internal linebuffer to process r, t and ^H. It is becoming useable.
- Applied trivial OWL patches
- Block signals in syslog(), since syslog() is not re-entrant
- Minor adjustements so that sysvinit compiles on the Hurd
- killall5 now skips kernel threads
- Inittab entries with both S and other runlevels were broken.
- Changed initreq.h to be more flexible and forwards-compatible.
- You can now through /dev/initctl set environment variables in init that will be inherited by its children. For now, only variables prefixed with INIT_ can be set and the maximum is
- 16 variables. Theres also a length limit due to the size of struct init_request, so it should be safe from abuse.
- Option -P and -H to shutdown set INIT_HALT=POWERDOWN and INIT_HALT=HALT as environment variables as described above
- Add "mountpoint" utility.
- Slightly better algorithm in killall5.c:pidof()
- Added some patches from fedora-core (halt-usage, last -t, sulogin-message, user-console)