Free quickly and easily software for linux

Cygwin Easy project is an autorun disk that let you work easily and quickly with Cygwin environment in a Windows computer without install anything on your hard disk.

When you insert the disk in the drive the autorun start automatically, if nothing happens its necessary to run "autorun.bat" manually.

Your Cygwin work directory (home) is the "cygwin" directory placed on your desktop.

If in your computer there is already an installation of Cygwin when "autorun.bat" is properly terminated (exiting from the environment with the exit command) or when you click on the link to remove Cygwin Easy it will return back to the previous environment.

In the desktop there is also some links to start new shells or to start X Windows server.

If you want to start X Windows server when the disk is inserted you can run the command "D:autorun X" from Start -> Run (where "D" is the letter that indicate your optical drive).

At the end of the work with Cygwin Easy on your guest system there will be only your workdir.

If you want to change your home path is possible to create a configuration file called "cygwineasy.ini" in your desktop with inside:

[Cygwin Easy]
HOME=C:homeuser

where "C:homeuser" is the path of your home

You can also specify this as second argument for "autorun.bat", for example:
"D:autorun shell C:homeuser" (from Start -> Run).

If you want a more powerful console (with for example the tab) you can run "console.exe" that is in the directory called "console". Console is an open source application that is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista and next version (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/console).

A complete list of Cygwin Easy packages is inside the file "packages.txt". Licenses of packages vary but most are under the GPL. Cygwin Easy scripts are under GPL.

Quizdrill is a learning-by-testing program to learn quickly, mostly memorizing tasks like vocabulary. The project supports simple quiz, multiple choice as well as flashcard testing. Although still quite immature, Quizdrill asks questions which have been answered right more often then others, less often to improve learning efficiency.

Quizzes can be easily created by edition simple text files or automatically built from Infobox-style templates of Wikipedia dumps (or other MediaWikis and even Semantic MediaWikis). Quizdrill tries to be as easy to use as possible.

Quizdrill should run on Linux, Mac/OSX, Unixes and Window. Install includes more information. For bug reports and feature requests see the Quizdrill project page. Quizdrill is released under the GNU GPL either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

gvidm is a gtk app to quickly and easily change video resolutions in X. Running it will pop up a list of available modes, upon choosing a mode or cancelling, it exits.
This makes it perfect for running from an application menu or a hotkey, so you dont have to use ram for an applet constantly running. If you are running dual or multi-head displays, it will give you a list of screens so you can select the appropriate one.
You can also specify on the command line a mode to switch to immediatly, or a list of modes to choose from.
Please note that gvidm cannot change the color depth, as that requires restarting X. Furthermore, any and all modes you want to appear must be defined in your XF86Config.
If youve only configured one mode, thats all that will show in the pop up. (Though this seems to no longer be the case with XFree 4.3+)
The XVidMode and/or XRandR extensions must be enabled in order to run gvid.
As mentioned above, gvidm supports multiple screen displays, including Xinerama. If youre running Xinerama, make sure that the configure script detects that and compiles in support for it.
If gvidm only displays one list of resolutions when youre running Xinerama, it means that Xinerama wasnt detected, Try re-configuring and re-compiling, telling it where your X libs (specifically libXinerama.a) are with the http://www.dakotacom.net/~donut/programs/gvidm/gvidm-0.8.tar.gz--x-libraries= option.
Enhancements:
http://www.dakotacom.net/~donut/programs/gvidm/gvidm-0.8.tar.gz8 - Add support for GTK 2.0.
- The default is to build for GTK 2.0 if it is present, specify configure --with-gtk1 if you want to force building with GTK 1.x.
- Fix build when xf86Parser.h isnt present. (Though interlaced or doublescan modes may show wrong refresh rates then.)
- Fix showing incorrect refresh rates for interlaced modes.

Sanefile is a tool to easily and quickly clean and change a large number of filenames. The idea started when I started “ripping” my own CD’s and the filenames were all different and full of errors. When I started getting TV downloads from other sources, the issue became a problem.

I had to find an efficient way of changing a large number of filenames. Sanefile was the result. Simple, single-purpose and very efficient at it with total exploitation of Tcl’s rich Regular Expression capabilities.

What this tool is NOT: spy-ware, spam-ware, virus or any other crappy stuff.

With Sanefile, you can use the full power of regular expressions. For instance, imagine that you want to filter off all files starting with a A. To use the just A would remove from the list all the files with A in it. Not the solution. If you use ^A (Carat and A) it means that it has to match A only at the beginning of the text.

More examples:

^text matches "text" in the beginning of the name
text$ matches "text" in the END of the filename
. matches ANY character
[ ] range indicator as in:
[a-z] matches ONE letter "a" to "z"
[a-zA-Z] matches ONE letter "a" to "z" and "A" to "Z"
[0-9] matches ONE digit
[^range] (caret) matches if NOT in the range as in:
[^0-9] matches if it is NOT a digit
* operator for repetition
.* matches everything
[0-9]* multiple digits
[^a-zA-Z0-9]* a bunch of everything BUT a letter or digit
escape operator
t tab
( when you want to match (
. when you want to match .
when you want to match (RARELY DONE! Think why.)
() used to group expressions
ab* a followed with multiple bs
(ab)* multiple ab (different from above!)

^Doors.*([A-Z][0-9]*).*.mp3$ Matches all files starting with Doors, have somewhere in the middle a letter followed by digits and end in ".mp3"

Kdsl is a tool to help setup, and manage Internet accounts quickly and easily. Despite its name, Kdsl is designed to be a tool to handle many different types of Internet connections, including dial-up.
Main features:
- Kdsl offers dock icon themes - you can download and choose which modem lights you want.
- Accounts can have their unique icons.
- Accounts are available instantly for all users
- An inline browser is available to check your Usage statistics if your ISP supports this feature.
Currently, with version 0.5 , Kdsl supports The following protocols:
DSL accounts - PPPoE is well supported.
PPPoA is supported but untested, and may not work at this time.
Dial-Up Account with Pap/Chap support
Unsupported Protocols
ISDN is unsupported at this time, however, development for ISDN is occuring at present.
Cable support is scratchy at present
Static IP support is untested.

RFind indexes the filenames of a given directory, and allows you to quickly search this index with regular expressions. Search-on-typing with more than 500,000 indexed filenames is easily possible.
RFind attempts to be very configurable so that it can be useful to everyone. It features hierarchically presented search results, search-on-typing, and the ability to define rules to execute on mouse click.
Main features:
- Hierarchical presented search results
- Search-on-typing
- Define rules to execute on mouseclick

Penguin Greetings is a Perl Web-based greeting card application. Penguin Greetings is two products wrapped into one. Penguin Greetings is an engine for handling web "ecards." It is also a collection of 200 cards that can be quickly and easily installed into any server for an immediate ecards solution. In addition, another 24 card images are included separately in the Penguin Greetings - Four Seasons collection and another 16 note card images are now included in the Penguin Greetings - Savoring the sights of Seattle Collection. The cards are photo-based and are similar in style and taste to Apples iCards content. To see the complete Penguin Greetings solution, go to the demonstration page.
The Penguin Greetings (pgreet) engine is a web-based greeting cards for LINUX and other UNIX-based systems written in Perl. Penguin Greetings is template-based and shifts ecards to be more like email instead of web-only objects. For flexibility and security, a separate daemon works with the emails and stores data permanently on the server.
Main features:
- Supports any number of ecard sites running on the same server. Each site is independent with its own configuration, database files, and HTML content. Localization/Internationalization is supported so that secondary ecard sites can be used to support multiple languages and regions. User ecard sites are supported.
- Customizable HTML templates for both the ecards and creation screens so that the web content is completely independent of the Perl program. Perl content is embedded using Embperl or now HTML::Mason so that the full power of Perl is available to content developers and for server-side processing. Object-oriented ecard sites can be created using Embperl::Object or Mason. At the same time, creating templates does not require any specific knowledge of Perl. Using Embperl or Mason, it is possible to build complicated ecard sites as demonstrated by the Penguin Greetings - California Poppy Collection. or the Penguin Greetings - Savoring the sights of Seattle Collection
- Support for a persistent Perl interpreter via SpeedyCGI for robust performance under production loads. Configuration and state information is cached in memory for improved performance under SpeedyCGI. Retains support for standard CGI for portability.
- Greeting cards that function more like email. The announcement of the card includes the text of the card so that the recipient can reply to the message. The email of the author is included in the email reply-to field so that recipients can reply to the ecard using the reply feature of most email clients.
- Uses MIME multipart HTML formatted email to directly send complete ecards to recipients.
- Automated installation procedure, including: the installation of CPAN modules not included in Perl 5.8.0, localization of configuration files, and installation of applications, configuration files, and a default ecard website.
- Access to card creation can be limited to users stored in an htpasswd file on server for sites which want to have ecards available only to a particular group of people.
- A separate application daemon to handle such chores as: card scheduling for emailing on a particular date, purging of old cards after a certain date, and backup database files.
- A user agent separate from the user ID which the web server runs as for mailing and storing of data. If desired, ecards can be emailed under existing email accounts on server. Specific human users on the server can be given access to this feature via an access control list.
- Extensive configuration options. Including the location of configuration and data files, performance tuning, and content parameters.
- Based on standard Perl CPAN modules for portability and reliability.
- Extensive logging of daemon activities.
- Six secondary demonstrations sites included with the distribution, Five of which exist in both English and French as examples of internationalization. Four use Embperl::Object to demonstrate object-oriented website building techniques and one uses HTML::Mason.