Free vfs software for linux

Marlin is a sample editor for Gnome 2. It uses GStreamer for file operations and for recording and playback, meaning it can handle a great number of formats and work with most sound systems.
Main features:
- Can load from a large number of media formats (.mp3, .ogg, .wav, .au, .flac, .mpg, .avi...)
- Can save to many formats (.mp3, .wav, .au, .ogg, .flac...) and use the Gnome-Media profiles
- Can handle large files with no problems
- Handles cut, copy, paste, replace and mix operations
- Infinite levels of Undo/Redo and everything should be undoable
- Fully Gnome 2 HIG compliant
- Can record from a variety of sources (ALSA, OSS, esd, arts)
- Playback
- Can extract audio from CDs (with optional musicbrainz lookup)
- Gnome-VFS support
- Horizontal and Vertical scaling
- Uses GStreamer

tkscript is a JIT-accelerated C-like scripting language with bindings for OpenGL, SDL, SDL_net, libpng, and zlib.
A plugin SDK can be used to dynamically extend the script engine with custom C functions and C++ classes.
It can be used to create portable, 3D, OpenGL-accelerated multimedia applications.
TKS, short for "toolkit script-language", is an open and portable glue language for native code libraries. The script engine focuses on C++ API backends but also allows for C and Assembler functions. The scripts look much like C/C++/JavaScript/PHP so it will not take someone too long to get familiar with the syntax. A CPU table based (i.e. rather portable) Just In Time (JIT) compiler can speed up script execution by up to 100 times.
TKS serves as a scriptable application host for custom C++ libraries (?plugins?). Bindings for OpenGL,SDL,SDL_net,libpng,zlib,MiniFMOD and MySQL are available while other extensions are currently being developed, e.g. for the FOX GUI toolkit.
A TKS application project can be compiled to a gzip compressed TKX archive which will contain all data necessary to run that application. This technique makes it possible to deploy applications without prior local installation (besides the TKS runtime) which suggests the use for network based systems, e.g. the world wide web or intranets. TKX archives, in contrary to regular executables, are hardware-independent and can thus be used across multiple platforms.
The current implementation of the scriptlanguage, its source codes as well as precompiled distributions are available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
The interface for application-specific C/C++ extension libraries (YAC) is released under terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License which also allows for proprietary (i.e. closed source) extensions (plugins).
Note: The code snippets found in this documentation can be run as-is, just copy them to a test.tks file and run them with the "tks" CLI command.
Main features:
- a C/C++/Java(Script) like, JIT accelerated scripting engine (and gzipd VFS) (TKScript)
- available for and tested with JIT support on:
- Microsoft Windows 95,98,Me,2000,XP
- X86 (very probably 68K) Linux (Mandrake, SuSE and some custom setups..)
- CygWin
- AmigaOS 3.0 (68040+ixemul+g++)
- application host for "YAC" plugins
- uses Win32-API resp. Solaris/Linux libdl to dynamically load DLLs/SOs
- a self contained, binary level C++ component/reflectance model and plugin SDK ("YAC")
- bindings for the OpenGL (1.1) toolkit ("tkopengl")
- bindings for the SDL cross platform hardware abstraction layer ("tksdl")
- The plugin can be used to develop video games and similar "realtime" applications.
- an abstraction to the hardware and software APIs of the Linux,Win32,BeOS,MacOS,MacOS-X,QNX,AmigaOS operating systems..
- supports the OpenGL graphics interface
- supports keyboard/mouse/joystick input devices
- audio support
- uses the SDL, SDL_net, libpng and zlib toolkits.
- The SDL_net API provides TCP/UDP networking facilities.
- a XML/HTML like markup language and interface to the FOX toolkit ("FXML")
- easy to learn if you know HTML and JavaScript (:

Aethera is a pim application, i.e. it handles all kinds of personal information: email, contacts, notes, tasks, todos, journals. It has various communication features regarding: send/receive email, send/receive task requests and appointment requests via email. It can help you to know quickly the worlds news and weather.
Aethera is a new cutting edge communications and personal data management software written with Qt and deployed for Linux, Windows and Macintosh. By PIM we mean Personal Information Manager, by PDR we mean Personal Data Repository, the rest should be obvious.
Aethera supports all the standard messaging protocols such as POP and IMAP with full synchronization capability as well as support for multiple identities. All the features you would expect to find in an industrial strength email system are part of Aethera. In addition there is a personal calendar and schedule, as well as "sticky" notes, "To Do" lists, an address book, groupware compatibility via Kolab, and optional plug ins the extend the idea of collaboration beyond the bounds of typical groupware with instant messaging, whiteboarding and voice over IP (VoIP). The combination of Aethera with Kolab provides you with a very powerful combination that can realistically replace Outlook/Exchange and in some cases Lotus Notes, for only the price of the hardware to install it on. There are no per server costs or per user costs unless you want the optional plug ins, which are all priced at trivial amounts. Since Aethera runs on virtually any operating system you are likely to use, it doesnt require that you make any changes on the desktop.
The Groupware portion of Aethera can be as simple as sharing your personal schedule to arrange meetings and discover scheduling conflicts, sharing your contacts or even your ideas using notes and images. There is support for Kolab Groupware server, a good solution for people who need synchronization and instant access to information. Aethera is also a GPL, this means you get the source code with the application to do whatever you want. We dont charge for Aethera, however we do have the optional plug ins that we charge for, but you are free to create your own plug ins for your own use or to give away to other people and companies.
We are available to build plug ins or add functionality on a time and materials basis if you wish to have specific customizations in a timely fashion, just contact us at . Aethera uses advanced functionality that we developed that allows you to add new plug ins with relative ease across operating systems, making Aethera truly unique and extensible. Our use of Qt from Trolltech gives us the ability to easily make the user interface multi-platform, and we take care of the rest.
Aethera is well suited, and designed, around the idea of collaboration and information management. So lets talk about whats there now, what wed like to do in the future and what is possible to do.
Through our creative use of Jabber weve been able to integrate not only an instant messaging client, but also the worlds only collaborative whiteboarding application built on top of Jabber. This allows you to rapidly communicate with friends and co-workers anywhere in the world and be able to easily share visual ideas. Our Jabber client is also the only one currently available that supports file transfers between clients with no problems with firewalls. Now an extension of this idea would be to allow you to share any object within Aethera to people you are Jabbering with, for example: Say you are in a one on one chat, or better yet, a MUC (Multi User Chat in Jabber terms) and you drop a Contact from Aethera in to the chat, everyone can have that automatically load in to their contact list, or maybe it is a file, a picture, etc. This is all theoretically possible today with the technology that exists in the framework, it just hasnt been written yet.
Weve added what we call the aethera-command extension. This allows you to essentially script Aethera externally. So for example on Windows, you could have a VBA script that was part of MS Excel that could populate your Address Book with the data out of Excel. Some of the things were talking about here can be solved with aethera-command, the possibilities are only limited by your imagination.
Another useful tool that could be done in a relatively short amount of time would be a CRM module, this is "Customer Resource Management" and is invaluable for sales people. If youve ever seen ACT! or Goldmine, this is what we are talking about, but far more flexible and better integration between all the modules. The design is done, but resources are thin to do everything we want.
Aethera could also be enabled to create discussion forums and knowledge bases within the enterprise or across the Internet. Aethera will also supports sophisticated work flow management through a graphical interface that allows you describe the flow of work through a process. Perhaps a document needs to be reviewed by, and signed off by several different people in a particular sequence. When that is done, then a copy is faxed or printed or emailed to another recipient at another location, and the task is then flagged as completed and notification is sent to the task manager. A web interface is also available so that you are never out of touch with your information. Eventually Aethera will integrate with our Project Management software as a fully integrated solution.
The PDR portion of Aethera will allow for new, and to our knowledge, completely unique features for managing your personal information. How many places do you have to organize information? You have your disk drive where you create directory structures and save information. You have web pages that you save in the bookmarks of your web browser, and you have your email. How often have you saved a bookmark only to have the link go away later, or you cant remember why you saved it? How often have you saved an email, and then cant remember why? Two very exciting pieces of Aethera address these issues for you.
Weve been designing a component on Linux that will allow any enabled application to save its information into the Aethera virtual file system. This one step allows you, but does not require you, to save any and all files into a single hierarchy that is easily organized, indexed and searchable. You will even be able to use Aethera to save your bookmarks through Konqueror and have multiple sorting criteria so that you can easily find and use them. A plug in for Konqueror will also allow you to save whole, or in part, web pages into the Aethera VFS instead of just saving the URL. This becomes even more useful with the next piece. It is conceivable to provide the same level of functionality through Internet Explorer on Windows and Safari on OS X.
The companion piece is the Annotation Tool. This component allows the user to add any personal notes to any piece of information being saved. So now you can save off that web page and make some notes on it when you save it as well as maintain the original URL information if needed. You can now file away your emails into folders and put your own notes and thoughts with them, ensuring that you will always know what your various correspondence were about in case the thread is lost. Anything that is saved into the VFS will have the ability to be annotated, giving you ultimate control over your personal information.
The VFS can easily be swapped to a SQL compliant database backend, which provides for better data security and more robust searching capability, not to mention better speed as your data repositories grow. You could then use any type of database tool to browse and report from those data structures (provided you have security clearance).
We hope you are starting to see and understand the vision of Aethera, what it can do today, and what it can do tomorrow.
Enhancements:
Whats new:
Groupware (Kolab1, Citadel)
- Aethera can use even empty Shared Folders (Kolab1 compatibility).
- The jabber chat logs can be saved in Notes Shared Folders (Kolab1 compatibility)
General
- Sound support for notifications, you can use the autodetect mode or just choose your player.
- Sound support can be disabled if you want to hear only your music :).
- More translations available (Greek support in progress). The current supported languages are French, German, Russian and Portuguese (BR).
tkJabberPro
- The notification system has been improved and you will get notifications as popup messages, as sounds or as status bar messages depending on the situation.
- Now its more comfortable to know about your new instant messages from your contacts or file transfer status.
- Now it comes with a system tray support (Linux only) which works very well with the new notification system.
- Better support for unicode, so that you can communicate with friends all over the world.
- The management of chat logs has been improved with a search mechanism and with groupware support.
- There is a new search line which let you see only the needed chat logs.
- The groupware support (Kolab1 compatible) helps you to store your chat logs on the server for sharing it with other people or just to have your important data available from different location.
- The chat list view has alternative background color for a better visibility.
- You can send/request authorization when you need. Adding a new contact will manage the authorizations automaticaly. The layout for authorization dialog has been fixed.
Improvements and fixes:
Datebook
- ICAL format support has some fixes.
- The automaticaly saving options works now.
- The sound option for events alarm works now. It is using the new sound support.
- Removing a calendar with Delete key isnt possible anymore.
Addressbook
- VCARD support is reading/importing both VCARD2 and VCARD3 data format and it exports data only in VCARD3 format. In this way more people will be able to import their old contacts in Aethera.
- The support for phone field is fixed (even as a SIP type).
- The Kolab support is better too.
- The contacts view list is using alternative background for a better visibility.

Filecentral is a filesystem browser and file manager. It uses the navigational model of the OSX finder, but tries to integrate into the GNOME Desktop. It uses gnome-vfs and is thus also able to manage remote files.

Filecentral is programmed in C, the best programming language to shoot yourself in the foot.

Sanos is a minimalistic 32-bit x86 OS kernel for Java based server appliances running on standard PC hardware.
This enables you to run java server applications without the need to install a traditional host operating system like Windows or Linux. Only a standard Java HotSpot VM and the sanos kernel are needed.
The kernel was developed as part of an experiment on investigating the feasibility of running java server applications without a traditional operating system only using a simple kernel.
The kernel implements basic operating system services like booting, memory management, thread scheduling, local and remote file systems, TCP/IP networking and DLL loading and linking.
A win32 layer allows the Windows version of the standard HotSpot JVM to run under sanos, essentially providing a JavaOS platform for server applications. This enables you to run java based server applications, like tomcat and jboss, under sanos.
Alternatively, you can use sanos as a small kernel for embedded server applications written in C. Sanos has a fairly standard POSIX based API and an ANSI Standard C library. In this case you dont need the JVM and the win32 wrappers.
Sanos is open source under a BSD style license. Please see the COPYING file for details.
Click on the topics below for further information, or send me an e-mail if you have any questions, comments or problems regarding sanos. Please include the word sanos in the mail to prevent it from being intercepted by my spam filter.
Sanos can be downloaded as either binary or source. All the files in the binary version can be built from the source version, so you do not need the binary version, if you are building sanos from source.
The binary version contains the compiled version of sanos, with files and utilities for making a boot disk.
The source version contains all the source code and build files for building sanos from source. You will need a Microsoft Visual C compiler to build sanos from source.
Enhancements:
- GetLogicalDrives() in kernel32 implemented.
- A bug in cmd_ipconfig() in sh.c prevented proper display of network configuration if no DNS servers was configured. This problem has been fixed. (FGA)
- New -a option added to mkdfs to support file lists with alternative files names. This simplifies configurations with both debug and release builds.
- The Visual Studio wizard can now generate a floppy disk boot image configured for the application.
- Shell prompt can be configured by setting the prompt property in the [shell] section of the os.ini file.
- If command line arguments are given to the shell it now executes the built-in command and exits the shell.
- The floppy motor timeout routine now acquires the floppy mutex before turning off the motor in order to prevent race conditions.
- Advanced Power Management (APM) support implemented. The computer can now be powered off after os shutdown. The mode parameter for exitos() can be used to specify the shutdown mode (halt, reboot, poweroff, debug). A shutdown command has been added to the shell. The power status can be retrieved using /proc/apm.
- Added /proc/cpu for CPU information.
- The raise() function now returns an error if the signal number is invalid.
- Breakpoint traps are now sent to the user mode signal handler. This allows breakpoints to be handled by user mode code.
- Signals now exits the currently executing job with the signal number as exit code. However, if the debug flag in the PEB is set the debugger is entered if an unhandled signal is encountered. The debug flag can be set using the debug command in the shell. The debug flag can be configured using the debug property in the [os] section of os.ini. The default value of the debug flag is 0, unless the system is build in debug configuration.
- readv() and writev() implemented in vfs.
- The kernel log is now implemented by the device driver /dev/klog. The kernel log now support ioctl for waiting for new log entries in the kernel log. The kprintf has been extended to support different log levels.
- The syslog interface has been redesigned in to comply with POSIX. The syslog now supports logging to a syslog server by setting the loghost property in the [os] section of os.ini.
- New klog daemon to read entries from the kernel log (/dev/klog) and add them to the system log.
- The sockaddr and sockaddr_in structures has been change to conform to winsock definitions.
- The sleep() function has been renamed to msleep(). A new POSIX conformant sleep function has been added to unistd.h.
- Added sys/time.h header file. Also added tzp parameter to gettimeofday() for POSIX compliance.
- New simple text editor utility (edit.exe) added.
- The syserror() function has been moved from libc.lib to the os.dll as an exported os api call.
- readline() now uses stdin and stdout for input and output.
- Bug in iomux fixed. Now a monitored event signals the iomux and not the associated object.
- Implemented popen() and pclose(). Also added a P_SUSPEND parameter to spawn() to allow new jobs to be started suspended.
- The kernel version information is now kept in a version resource in krnl.dll. The version information is retrieved using the new module version information functions in verinfo.c.
- The build type can now be controlled by compile time switches. The kernel version can be displayed in the Windows Explorer by viewing Properties for krnl.dll and selecting the Version tab.
- User management added to kernel. Each thread is now assigned to a user and a group. A thread has both a real and an effective user and group owner. The {get|set}[e]{uid|gid}() functions can be used to change the effective and real user and group for a thread. When a new thread is created the effective user and group are inherited from the creator thread.
- Added functions to query /etc/passwd and /etc/group files.
- New whoami, id, chmod, and chown commands added to shell. The format of the output from ls has been changed to display the file permission info.
- New file system version for DFS. The new version supports user and group owner for files and directories as well as permission bits. The new DFS version also supports files larger than 2GB. The fchown() and chown() functions has been added to vfs.
- DES-based crypt() implementation added.
- The spawn() function now computes the pgm parameter from the cmdline parameter if the pgm parameter is NULL. The initpgm and initargs properties in the [os] section of /etc/os.ini has been replaced with a single property named init. The default for init has been changed to /bin/sh.
- The behavour of the initial application has been changed. Previously the os shut down after the initial application exited. Now the initial application is executed again if it exits.
- Telnet daemon moved from the shell to separate server (telnetd.exe). The new telnet daemon has a more robust handling of the telnet protocol. The telnet daemon invokes the new login utlity in order to log on user.
- FTP daemon implemented.

ngacl project is an effort to give Linux and its filesystems a full blown ACL system, similar to that used by NFSv4 and Windows.
With this software, you have 13 different access rights, dynamic inheritance, and audit ACLs. The implementation is filesystem-independent because the kernel parts are an LSM module.
In addition, there is a Samba-VFS module that enables you to alter ACLs with the Windows ACL editor.
Enhancements:
- This release adds working audit ACLs, stability, and semantic enhancements.

With SMB for Fuse you can seamlessly browse your network neighbourhood as were it on your own filesystem.
Instead of mounting one Samba share at a time, you mount all workgroups, hosts and shares at once. Only when youre accessing a share a connection is made.
Main features:
- Browsing workgroups/hosts and shares from any application
- Streaming of files (movies/music)
- Browsing the network is fast because all hosts and shares are cached
Other solutions as GnomeVFS or KIO slaves provide a similar solution, but have a few disadvantages:
- Programs need to be rewritten to make them network transparent.
- KIO Slaves cannot stream files making movie/music playing over LAN impossible.
- Gnome VFS just is unstable on my system, although is offers streaming.
- Automounting shares is possible, but you cannot see more than 8 at a time, because NT Workstation limits the number of connections its also a lot slower.