Free production software for linux

TclTP (pronounced Tickle-Type) is a preprocessor based on the TCL scripting language. It allows embedding TCL command and and variable expansions in normal text. The result of expansion is inserted in the output.

Quoting and escaping work similar as in TCL, using braces and backslashes. A second stage of processing involves hooks defined by the document. This allows arbitrary transformations of processed text before it is written to the output.

TclTP is primarily intended for generating complex static documents. It is not a mark-up language per se.

But you can define your own mark-up and use it in your documents, possibly allowing the production of output in different formats from the same source file.

Fnord is a Linux distribution designed to be built from source and maintained manually. This allows the administrator maximum control over the system.

Unlike other built-from source systems, Fnord is not a toy; it is intended as a production Linux system (in fact, Fnord has been running on all of FnordNets machines since 2000).

Fnord includes a ramdisk-based utility system for initially configuring the target system, a pre-built environment that allows for building the system, full source code for the base system, and source for many other packages.

Craftsman Spy is a an open source and free framework for JDBC logging. Craftsman Spy is a JDBC driver implementation.

This logger logs all SQL connection and processings with execution spent time, all the stored procedures with arguments, all the batch processings and the result sets.

No need to modify your application in order to integrate JDBC logging with Craftsman Spy. The application MUST use the craftsman.spy.SpyDriver and MUST be launched with the -Dspy.driver=... system property.

Be carefull this JDBC driver SHOULD not be used in production mode. Use it only in development or pre-production system.

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Code

The two solutions can be used as the following examples :
System.setProperty("spy.driver","vendor.database.Driver");// or with the -Dspy.driver=vendor.database.Driver JVM option
Class.forName("craftsman.spy.SpyDriver");
Connection c = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:database:mydata");
Class.forName("craftsman.spy.SpyDriver");
Connection c = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:spy:vendor.database.Driver:database:mydata");

Log configuration

The log4j.properties or log4j.xml configuration file SHOULD contain the following lines :
log4j.category.craftsman.spy=DEBUG, SpyFile
log4j.appender.SpyFile=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.SpyFile.DatePattern=.yyyy.MM.dd
log4j.appender.SpyFile.File=spy.log
log4j.appender.SpyFile.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.SpyFile.layout.ConversionPattern=%m%n

The Pure Perl RayCaster is a small simple Ray casting application written completely in Perl without using any 3D API library or OpenGL. For the GUI, Pure Perl RayCaster uses wxPerl (WxWindows port to Perl).

Pure Perl RayCaster can load a 3D object from a file (in RAW format), display the object in wireframe perspective view, allow to orbit and zoom your camera and produce a user defined size ray casting image of the current view in a predefined color theme with or without smooth shading.

Pure Perl RayCaster is not a professional production tool for 3D image generation. It is well suited for educational purposes, in order to study, understand, tweak and try well known fundamental 3D Computer Graphics techniques.

log4sh project is a logging framework for shell scripts that works similar to the other wonderful logging products available from the Apache Software Foundataion (eg. log4perl, log4j).
Although not as powerful as the others, it can make the task of adding advanced logging to shell scripts easier, and has much more power than just using simple "echo" commands throughout.
In addition, it can be configured from a properties file so that scripts in a production environment do not need to be altered to change the amount of logging they produce.
Enhancements:
- They are now escaped properly for sed.
- The better _log4sh_mktemp() function was backported from the 1.3.x series.

PlainDoc (pd2tex) document production system allows you to write documents as normal text files. pd2tex tool converts the plain text files to:
- TeX which then gets converted to pdf (you need pdflatex tool installed)
- DocBook (dbx) which can be fed to various tool chains (not supplied) to generate pdf and html
- flat HTML (entire document in one HTML file)
- multipage HTML (each section as its own HTML file)
PlainDoc system was developed by Sampo Kellomaki from around 2002 onwards with the aim of solving document editing problems for writing:
- IT specifications documents
- software product manuals and documentation
- scientific and research papers
- legal documents
- presentation slides
Some of the goals were:
- document source is the plain text representation, no separate conversion needed
- documents are intuitive to write and understand
- getting a neophyte to a reasonable level of productivity and achievement should be easy. A college freshman should be able to use PlainDoc after 1 hour training, provided that all the tool chains have already been installed
- it must be very difficult to fatally corrupt a document; fixing corruption should be as simple as editing the file
- it must be possible to do diffs between versions of the document
- using cvs should be well supported (helps to avoid fatal loss of document, too)
- enable use of plain text productivity environments like emacs(1)
- the PlainDoc system MUST be serious enough to produce most any type of document and thus end the need to use any other system
- typeset quality output in paper and web formats
PlainDoc has now (Oct, 2004) been around for more than two years and it has been successfully used to produce:
- major IT specifications conforming to formatting rules (70 page range)
- research papers and theses conforming to formatting rules (200 page range)
- product manuals (500 page range)
- legal documents and contracts conforming to formatting rules
PlainDoc acknowledges its LaTeX legacy and does not aim at WYSIWYG (except in plain text document production, of course :-) however we are not totally against visual formatting either. Thus many hooks for accessing the underlying document formatters capabilities have been made available, such as:
- direct entry of TeX code
- direct entry of DocBook code
- direct entry of HTML code
These should allow you to get your job done without the system philosophy standing too much in the way, while for most part leveraging the automatic formatting of standard constructs.

LazyDragon Gnu/Linux is a Linux distro aimed at video and audio production. Unfortunatly their arent many distributions aimed specifically at Audio/Video editing and production.

So thats where LazyDragon comes in. Currently Chainsaw Linux is one of the only Distributions orientated towards media production, and you have to pay for it ( which should never be the case with Gnu/Linux).

LazyDragon Linux is free and always will be. LazyDragon is an unfunded , free production of free technologies . Only available free for download.