Free mainly software for linux

Simple Aggregator is a Web-based news aggregator. It retrieves feeds using Mark Pilgrims Ultra Liberal feed Parser, making full use of its advanced features. It stores the feeds in a MySQL database, and displays news via a PHP frontend.
Enhancements:
- the backend is now ready for categories (planned for the next release)
- the feedsloader script now uses threads for much better performance
- the feedsloader script now periodically cleans up read entries
- the feedsloader script now traps feed encoding errors
- added OPML import and export for feeds
- moved CSS style sheets to a common external file
- small fixes mainly to the user menu links

The KDE CIM Browser is a KDE based frontend to management brokers using the CIM-XML protocol.
The tool will be useful to view and modify CIM class hierarchies as well as instance and association structures.
Enhancements:
- The latest release of kim-browser is mainly a maintenance release.
- One new feature is namespace browsing, which allows you to pick the namespace to navigate in once connected to a CIMOM.
- In addition to this, some bugfixes have been incorporated and the visual appearance has been improved a bit.

Gecko Multimedia System is a complete media solution, able to play almost all media types and supports scheduled tv-recording from online tv-guides.

It is intended to replace your VCR, DVD, MP3- and CD-player into one single software-unit. It is mainly for use in Linux-systems (well, its the only system Ive tried it on).

Please note that Gecko requires VRD to be able to record television. VRD is not yet 100% functional.

dxflib is an open source C++ library mainly for parsing DXF files.
QCad, CAM Expert and vec2web all use dxflib to import DXF files. dxflib can also write DXF files, but you need to have good knowledge of the DXF format to produce valid output.
Installation:
LINUX
Compile as described in the UNIX section
UNIX
1. Extract package with gzip -dc dxflib-xxxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -
2. Run ./configure
3. Optionally run make depend
4. Run make
5. Run make install or copy libdxf.a and the header files to the default locations for library and include files.
6. Optional: run make demo to compile the demo application
Main features:
Supported Sections:
- HEADER
- Variables
- TABLES
- LAYER
- BLOCKS
- ENTITIES
- POINT
- LINE
- ARC
- CIRCLE
- ELLIPSE
- POLYLINE
- LWPOLYLINE
- INSERT
- TEXT
- HATCH
- DIMENSION
- Aligned
- Linear
- Radial
- Diametric
- Angular
- Leader

Netdiscover is a network address discovering tool that was developed mainly for those wireless networks without DHCP servers, though it also works on wired networks. It sends ARP requests and sniffs for replies.

AdvanceCOMP is a collection of recompression utilities for your .ZIP archives, .PNG snapshots, .MNG video clips and .GZ files.
Its mainly intended for recompressing your rom, snapshot and clip collection of emulated games.
Main features:
- Recompress ZIP, GZ, PNG and MNG files using the Deflate 7-Zip implementation.
- Recompress MNG files using Delta and Move optimization.
Enhancements:
- This release fixed a lot of bugs for 64-bit platforms.

Dpsyco is a automated system to distribute system configurations to several computers. It is written mainly for the Debian distribution but should be portable (without too much difficulties) to other distributions or Unixes as well.
It consists of a number of shell scripts to perform the desired actions. With it you can handle users, add ssh-public-keys, patch the system, update things using cfengine, install files (overriding other package files), and more.
Main features:
- Handle users.
- Handle groups.
- Handle ssh access.