Free tools software for linux

The MDB Tools project is a effort to document the MDB file format used in Microsofts Access database package, and to provide a set of tools and applications to make that data available on other platforms.

Specifically, MDB Tools includes programs to export schema and data to other databases such as MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, PostgreSQL, and others.

Also, included is a SQL engine for performing simple SQL queries. The 0.5 release includes an updated GUI interface (screenshot is available here). A sparse but functional ODBC driver is included as well.

MDB Tools currently has read-only support for Access 97 (Jet 3) and Access 2000/2002 (Jet 4) formats. Access 2000 support is a recent addition and may not be as complete as Jet 3 support.

Write support is currently being worked on and the first cut is expected to be included in the 0.6 release.

The Graphics Muse Tools are a collection of plug-ins and scripts for use with GIMP. The package now includes a set of C plugins (GFXArrows, GFXCards, GFXTrans, GFXLayers, GFXMerge, and GFXShapes) and a set of Perl scripts (GFXDodge, GFXGallery, GFXLayerSave, and GFXLayerOffsets).

lopster-tools is a set of tools for use with Lopster that allows users to view statistics for download and upload transfer, incomplete and finished files, how many MB are downloaded or uploaded, and the difference between down- and upload, amongst other features.

The mjpeg programs are a set of tools that can do recording of videos and playback, simple cut-and-paste editing and the MPEG compression of audio and video under Linux.
Recording is supported for the Zoran based cards like the Buz (Iomega), DC10 (MIRO, Pinnacle), Matrox Marvel cards and the LML33 (Linux Media Labs). See related pages to the right to find the right driver for your card.
The recorded videos can be converted to MPEG streams. The software playback of MPEG streams works with almost every player and every OS.
You can produce special forms of MPEG streams like VCD (Video CD) and SVCD for hardware playback.
A key design objective of the tools is interoperability with other video tools:
The tools can be used used to edit, playback and compress motion JPEG (MJPEG) AVIs captured using the xawtv package.
The tools can be used to edit playback and compress MJPEG streams created and editted with broadcast 2000. N.b. the current mpeg2movie high bit-rate MPEG encoder is in large part derived from an obsolescent snapshot of the mjpegtools MPEG encoder.
Enhancements:
- changes in YUV4MPEG2 API to offer support for multiple colorspaces (particularly useful for DV video), so that multiple planar YUV formats (also monochrome or alpha) are supported.
- most filtering tools have been adapted to support multiple YUV formats, so that you will not lose quality/precision in conversion steps.
- Many new or dramatically improved filters including (but not limited to):
*) yuvdenoise (denoising filter)
*) yuvdeinterlace (intelligent deinterlacing program)
*) y4munsharp (unsharp mask image sharpening program)
- Improvements in the IDCT/DCT routines in the MPEG-1/-2 encoder (much more exact now and not subject to overflow/truncation on the IA32 arch).
- MANY new utilties for importing/exporting data:
*) New and improved PGM/PNM conversion programs for dealing with PPM data.
*) Utilities to convert raw (headerless) YUV data to and from YUV4MPEG2 format. Useful when interfacing with other program suites.
*) Program (yuyvtoy4m) to convert 4:2:2 data from digital cameras into YUV4MPEG2 format for use with mjpegtools.
*) y4mstabilizer for stabilizing images with unsteady camera work
- Improvements and fixes in mplex for handling PCM audio (LPCM audio actually works now)
- DPME (Dual Prime Motion Estimation) in the encoder (mpeg2enc) is fully functional (it was present but buggy/artifacted in the earlier releases)
- Rate control in the encoder improved considerably.
- Much better Quicktime file handling (via libquicktime) especially the audio tracks.
- Besides the always-excellent x86 support, we now have full support for AMD64 (including MMX/SSE/etc. optimizations) and for PPC (e.g. Linux or OS/X), and win32 support is also available (via Cygwin/Mingw).

cdp-tools is a software that provides tools to work with the Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP).
They were written because of a particular hosting center that insisted on learning routes using CDP, and thusly required Cisco Switches for doing their dirty work.
cdp-listen/cdp-routemgr are proof-of-concepts that may be useful if you want to implement a similarly brain-damaged proposal.
cdp-send is a must-have tool if you are in that situation. It can pretend to be just about any kind of Cisco hardware you can imagine.
The source is a bit difficult to follow as a requirement was that it build under both the ancient libnet and the new libnet code. hence, much nasty macro-ing.
Enhancements:
- DESCRIPTION, README: More docs...

Webmasters Tools is a set of free open-source tools to do the work of the webmaster,
under the OSS licence.

Programs included:

metagen Program to generate meta-tags for your web pages.
metarep Report meta-tags and links in web pages.
updater Copy a part of a web page to all others.
outline Build a tutorial from simple unformatted text files.
makelist Build a page made of the list of links from a directory.

Web tools are free software; you can redistribute the archive and/or modify the programs under the terms of the OSS licence.

QA Tools allow you to automatically generate regular releases and/or snapshots of your product. Your product can be distributed as a source code archive (typically .tar.gz) or as a binary distribution archive (.deb, .rpm, .exe).
QA Tools can be used to generate nighly-built source and binary packages suitable for continuous integration and testing.
QA Tools can handle very simple product dependencies (read: in order to build/package product A you first need to build/package product B).
QA Tools work currently with the software packages that have source code managed using Subversion and that are ./configured && make installed using autoconf/automake.
QA Tools can help the people who are developing set of dependent crossplatform products that need to be packaged for different distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora Core, Suse, Windows, ...).
You should be familiar with autoconf/automake (particulary `make dist), RPM package building, and DEB package building. You should know how to store source code in SVN (trunk, branches, tags). QA Tools will not do any of those for you, but will help you to automate certain things and consume less time doing them.
Enhancements:
- Fix swapped function calls in svn-release-{deb,rpm}

CryptoMX Tools is a set of encryption, steganography, cipher, hashing and conversion tools designed to work on any operating system with any Javascript-capable browser.
Enhancements:
- Added SHA-256 Algorithm.
- Used COPYING, README, AUTHORS, and ChangeLog Files.
- Removed a bit of useless code.
- Decreased Filesize.
- Misc. Fixes.