Free suite software for linux

NIC is a suite of simple network utilities given a PHP web frontend.
Main features:
- Finger
- ICQ lookup
- DNS lookup
- Email address verification
- Ping
- SMTP open relay checking
- Service status
- Traceroute
- Whois

The Open CORBA Benchmarking Suite measures several basic performance aspects of various CORBA brokers.
The suite produces an XML output that can be submitted to a searchable database of broker performance data and browsed in a graphical form. The suite is portable to a number of platforms and brokers.
For C++ brokers
Enter the "C++" directory. Then enter the subdirectory of that directory that corresponds to the broker of your choice. Check the README file there for further instructions, usually you will use "make" to compile the benchmark.
For Java brokers
Enter the "Java" and then the "build" directory. Then enter the subdirectory of that directory that corresponds to the broker of your choice. Check the README file there for further instructions, usually you will use "ant" to compile the benchmark "ant run" to execute the benchmark.
Understanding results
The results do not get printed until the benchmark is finished, which can take from 2 to 4 hours depending on the platform. The best way to view the results is to capture them to a file and view them graphically at http://nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~bench.
Enhancements:
- Support for system information on Linux 2.6 kernels.
- Slight extensions to the documentation.
- Support for some recent brokers on Solaris (VisiBroker 6.0, omniORB 4.0.5, JacORB 2.2.1).
- Support for some recent brokers on Linux (omniORB 4.0.5, JacORB 2.2.1, JDK 1.5.0, TAO 1.4.3).

GNOME Office is the premier suite of office productivity applications designed for the GNOME desktop environment.
Some of the applications also can run on Windows or Mac OS X. They provide powerful, efficient office productivity capabilities as free (GPL) software.
Main features:
- AbiWord word processor
- Gnumeric spreadsheet
- Gnome-DB data access components

Whats On Air is a suite of programs that can handle radio stations metadata. Such metadata is the currently playing track as well as the last playing tracks and some general informations about the radio stations.

Eunit project is an Erlang test suite tool, inspired by agile development ideas.
Usage:
Launch example unit test with:
erl -config sys.config
and then
eunit:run([eunit_examples], {suffix, "_test"}).
Enhancements:
- This release is a complete rewrite.
- Writing unit tests should now be simpler than with the previous version.
- This release can also be used with the Aegis configuration management system for continuous integration.

TAHI Test Suite provides a mechanism for validating an IPv6 implementation against a standardized test for conformance to the IPv6 specification, extensions and directly related protocols.
TAHI Project is the joint effort formed with the objective of developing and providing the verification technology for IPv6.
The growth process of IPv4 was the history of encountering various kinds of obstacles and conquering such obstacles. However, once the position as infrastructure was established, it is not allowed to repeat the same history. This is a reason why the verification technology is essential for IPv6 deployment.
We research and develop conformance tests and interoperability tests for IPv6.
We closely work with the KAME project and USAGI project. We help activities of them in the quality side by offering the verification technology we develop in the TAHI project and improve the development efficiency.
We open the results and fruits of the project to the public for FREE. Any developer concerned with IPv6 can utilize the results and fruits of TAHI project freely. A free software plays an important role in progress of the Internet. We believe that providing the verification technology for FREE contributes to advances of IPv6. Besides the programs, the specifications and criteria of verification will be included in the Package.
Enhancements:
- This release extends the tests in the specification and code.
- There are assorted minor bugfixes.

The Zaval Proxy Suite is an easy-to-use solution that allows monitoring TCP-based protocols, such as HTTP, NNTP and others. It is extremely useful in software development and can be used as a debug tool. Another area of appliance is multiple connections logging with proxy facilities. As soon as its a pure java solution it can be used almost everywhere.

The Zaval Proxy functions as a proxy and transfers data between the server and the client writing incoming and outgoing traffic into log files. So you can see these raw data as is.

On start the Zaval Proxy Suite goes through configuration file and creates the specified number of proxy servers and the shutdown server.

"Proxy server" is a server socket listening on the specified port. When the client is connected proxy connects to the target server and transfers data between them logging entire traffic. On each connection 2 files are created - xxx-input (request data from the client) and xxx-output (response data from the server). The "xxx" means here the sequential number of the connection for the proxy server. The traffic is logged into the separate directory for each proxy.

Shutdown server is needed to close all open connections correctly and close the program.

So, in the particular case you should specify address of proxy server in client application (web browser, for example) and address of the target server in the proxy configuration file. You can create any number of proxy servers that run at the same time, however, they should use different port numbers.

Qubit (Qmail Ultimate Backend Integration Tool) is a fully Web-based qmail server configuration and administration suite.

Qubit project is based on the qmailrules qmail server installation style. It has the same features as other similar tools (like vqadmin and qmailadmin), and it also gives you full control to administer your server with all sorts of features and applications.