Free 2007 software for linux

Mandriva Linux One is a complete Mandriva Linux system, which you can use directly from the CD.

It includes Openoffice.org, kde, mozilla-firefox, gimp, amarok...

You are welcome to test, especially the installation wizard.

Please report the problems on bugzilla for the distribution.

You only need one CD, just pick the one depending of you language.

Arabian Linux also known as arl is a bootable CD with a compilation of GNU/Linux software, full support for Arabic/English languages and automatic hardware detection.
Its the first arabic live-distro using KDE as the default GUI, the first to have the arabic language enabled in consoles, pre-compiled ready-for-use softmodem drivers and the first to have its own control panel system in both languages (arabic/english). Arabian is recommended for beginners (using arabic language or not).
Arabian Linux is downloadable from this website as an ISO image. Its not necessary to install anything on a harddisk but you still can install it on your harddisk and run Arabian directly from your box.
Main features:
- Kernel 2.6.11,
- XFree 3.3 replaced by Xorg 2.8.10,
- Using LSB color system,
- Interactive bootup system,
- Modules use is possible now,
- Added the amod system tools for modules management,
- .ISO and .NRG (Ahead Nero) images are now mounted with just one click
- Added Convert to ISO utility for .NRG images
- Added service menu "Arabian Package" for .deb and .rpm packages
- System Upgrade now available (under development)
- Added Arabic support in the installer
- Installer gives an option to choose either LILO or GRUB
- Partitions appear now in the device name mode (UNIX) and letters (Windows)
- Partitions use the read-write mode by default ( ntfs still read-only )
- nVidia 3D driver added, is enabled by nvidia cheatcode
- Java 1.5 enabled as default,
- Arabeyes/KACST Arabic TTF fonts included,
- Arabic language is now enabled in consoles (thanks to Arabeyes Bicon project),
- Arabeyes Wordlist (Linux dictionary - Arabic/English) included,
- New softmodem drivers added,
- Hibernating support,
- Added enhanced support for wireless cards,
- Enhanced multimedia support,
- Write support for all virtual directories (i.e. live-installation of software without writable media is possible) in a running live system, made possible through UNIONFS,
- Added Kernel Accelerator - kqemu (with authorization of its author, Fabrice), for qemu,
- The latest version of Gparted added,
- /home directory and system configuration can be kept in an usb stick,
- KDE 3.4.0, Gimp 2.2.4, OpenOffice 1.1.4 (arabic) and many other packages.

Diagnotep is an affliction search engine to help diagnose medical problems. Diagnotep project works in the mozilla browser, it might not work properly in other browsers. This is version 2007.1. To run the entire engine on your machine for a faster search, unzip the health archive into a folder and then open the file "health_diagnotep.html" with a browser.

The program is under the GPL license which basically welcomes you to copy or modify this and allows anyone else to copy or modify your version if you make it public. The text is under the GNU Free Documentation License which allows you to copy or modify this and allows anyone else to copy or modify your version if you make it public.

The program searches among the symptoms of a medical database, so the results will only be medical afflictions. There are about 1,800 afflictions in the database, so no matter how deep the search depth and how many symptoms are entered, there will be at most about 1,800 results. The links from the results page point to affliction pages which are either public domain government pages or GNU Free Documentation License pages.

The greatest advantage of the diagnotep search engine is that it searches only medical affliction pages, so the results are not cluttered with pages which are not about health. Another advantage is that the program searches only the symptom part of the affliction pages, so the results are not cluttered with unrelated medical pages. The greatest disadvantage of diagnotep is that it searches a medical database which is large, but incomplete; it does not include all the medical pages on the internet. Another disadvantage is that diagnotep has a size of about 200 kilobytes and so takes about 30 seconds to load on a 56k dialup modem.

Diagnotep development is ongoing and in the future it is hoped that there will be expanded treatment sections for common afflictions, that more afflictions will be added to the medical database and that the 200 kB size of the diagnotep script will be reduced for faster loading.

Obol is part of a project to investigate properties of security protocols, what they are, how they behave, how they interact, how to deal with them. The Obol language grew out of a desire to escape the distractions of low-level implementation efforts, and the need to experiment and express security protocols as independent programs, closer to the level on which security protocols are analysed.
Whats it all about?
Obol is a specialized high-level programming language for security protocols. The idea is to program closer to the abstractions used to describe and analyze security protocols, and leave all the nasty details to the runtime. The runtime will then handle "mundane" issues such as message representation, communication, cryptographic transformations and so on.
Whats the point of that?
By focusing on the security aspects of the protocol being implemented, one avoid the typical entanglement of security protocol code, low-level cryptographic functions, and application logic. Obol keeps these three aspects separate, resulting in a clean, highly modular and very flexible security protocol framework.
Think of it as trying to do for security protocols what SQL did for databases.
Whats it implemented in?
The most mature (and actively developed) runtime version is implemented in Java, using ANTLR for the parsing. Earlier prototypes were implemented in Common Lisp and Python.
What can it be used for?
Security protocols, or any protocol structure that involve composition and transformation. Obol is interpreted, and protocols can very easily be upgraded. The runtimes modular structure allows for new message representation formats, cryptographic primitives, communication technology and so on, to be added dynamically.
What does it look like?
As an example, consider the typical way a message in a security protocol is described:
A ? B: A, B, {A, B, Na}Kab
The above means that A sends B a message consisting of the senders name, the intended recipients name, and then encrypts a repetition of the names along with a nonce Na(random value) using the shared-key Kab. We have not made the assumption that Obol must run on both protocol endpoints, so we must implement both sides (both A and B):
A side (send B A B (encrypt Kab A B Na)
B side (receive A A B (decrypt Kab A B *Na))
In the above example we assume that A and B know about each other, and that share the key Kab. However, the nonce Na is unknown to B, so B cannot recognize it, but can assign the unknown datum to a symbol, which is what the *Na construct does.
How can Obol be used?
An application must connect to the Obol runtime and request that it starts an Obol protocol, or script. The application receives a handle which it can use to communicate with the script instance, i.e. starting and stopping the protocol execution, setting and retrieving values the script requires and provides.
Enhancements:
Fixes:
- Jar file trouble
- robustness issues
- symbol property dereferencing

HTTPSock is a PHP class that uses pure sockets to compile HTTP Headers and sends them to the specified host.

It also reads back the host’s reply and parses any header and cookie information. Supports GZIP encoding as well. The source can be seen here. Feel free to use it, just don’t take any credit for yourself.

BNF for Java project is a parser/generator, or compiler-compiler. The parser reads your input text, or "terminals", specified by your BNF syntax.

The parser features indefinate look-ahead and back-track. As the grammar parses your file, it builds a parse-tree which carries the content in the structure of your grammar. Then the parse-tree is traversed, driving the output generators the you wrote in Java.

The compiler uses several files to control the project, so BNF for Java provides a Swing GUI to help you manage the BNF, Java, and XML files.

Gambit project is a library of game theory software and tools for the construction and analysis of finite extensive and normal form games.
Gambit is designed to be portable across platforms: it currently is known to run on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, and Windows 98 and later.
Main features:
- A graphical user interface, based upon the wxWidgets (nee wxWindows) library, providing a common look-and-feel across platforms.
- A Python API for scripting applications (under development).
- A library of C++ source code for representing games, suitable for use in other applications.
Enhancements:
- bug fixes