Free sauerbraten 2007 08 19 software for linux

Sauerbraten is an experimental engine based on Cube, can be seen as "Next-Gen Cube", or "Cube 2". Much like cube, the aim of this engine is not to produce the most eyecandy possible, but rather allow map/geometry editing to be done dynamically in-game, and make map editing a lot of fun.

Sauerbraten has an even simpler world model than cube (fewer exceptions, just one kind of building block), is quicker to edit geometry with, yet allows for significantly greater class of shapes. One way to see the transition from Cube to Sauerbraten is to say Cube was a 2-directional heightfield (floor and ceiling), and Sauerbraten is a 6-directional heighfield (heighfields can be modeled in all 6 directions).

The world consists of an octree of deformable cubes. It being an octree has just one important effect: it allows the mapper to work at any scale, from large landscape areas to small architectural details. The octree is largely invisible to the mapper though, he can arbitrarily break up larger cubes or merge them, and the engine takes care of the rest.

The deformable cubes are geometric shapes made out of maximally 8 vertices. In its maximum size, it is a regular cube that fills the entire octree node it sits in, as minimum size all 8 vertices coincide which is to say the cube is "empty". Anywhere in between theres a variety of slanted cubes and wedge shapes that are possible to any degree and orientation, and together with neighbouring cubes can form any shape easily.

The editor is similar to the one in Cube but much easier / direct to use, as there arent all the different kinds of cubes to worry about. Here, you can simply "push and pull" geometry with your mousewheel in 6 directions, depending on the orientation of the surface you are looking at. Modifier keys allow you to influence single vertices on a cube, connected vertices touching multiple cubes, edges, faces and entire cubes. Selections can be made to operate on more primitives at once. Many complex shapes are quick and easy to make. It is definitely the most fun way to model architecture to date.

The internal representation of a deformable cube is very different from a vertex based representation, and is based on "edge spans" which allows the engine to represent any kind of shape uniformly in just 12 bytes. This means it can hold great amounts of geometry in memory and maps on disk are small. To render this kind of geometry, the engine goes through a process of converting the internal representation to vertices using plane intersections based on the edge ranges, culls coinciding faces, merges vertices etc. to arrive at something which renders efficiently by hardware and caches this in chunks based on the octree. This allows Sauerbraten a significantly higher polygon throughput than Cube while maintaining its ability to have dynamic geometry.

The current implementation inherents all the non-world geometry related code from Cube, and as such works without modification: entities, AI, gameplay, network, console/script. For the new code, rendering and editing are close to done, physics and lighting are working quite well, level loading/saving is complete, SP & MP work, but plenty of more advanced stuff like occlusion culling & LOD is missing.

UPDATE: Sauerbraten has now started as a Cube community Open Source Engine (& Game) project. It interesting for developers & mappers, but maybe not players yet (though SP & MP do work). If you are interested in checking it out, or even in contributing, I suggest you visit the forums (see below).

NEWS: may 24 2005 release with lightmaps and working MP/SP gameplay! download from sourceforge below.

Seed7 is a general purpose programming language designed by Thomas Mertes. Seed7 project is a higher level language compared to Ada, C/C++ and Java.
The Seed7 interpreter and the example programs are open-source software. An open-source Seed7 compiler is also under development.
In Seed7 new statements and operators can be declared easily. Functions with type results and type parameters are more elegant than a template or generics concept. Object orientation is used where it brings advantages and not in places where other solutions are more obvious.
Although Seed7 contains several concepts of other programming languages it is generally not considered as a direct descendant of any other programming language.
Main features:
- User defined statements and operators.
- Types are first class objects (Templates and generics can be defined easily without special syntax).
- Predefined constructs like arrays or for-loops are declared in the language itself.
- Object orientation
- Strong typing
- exception handling
- overloading of procedures/functions/operators/statements
- Various predefined types like resizable arrays, hashes, bitsets, structs, color, time, duration, etc.
- Runs under linux and various unix versions. A windows version is under developent
- The interpreter and the example programs use the GPL license, while the runtime library uses the LGPL license.
Enhancements:
- The handling of local functions in the compiler (comp.sd7) was improved.
- The function option (to get compile time defines) was renamed to configValue.
- The compiler was improved to support the configValue function.
- The ord function for enumerations was changed to work without DYNAMIC.
- The changelog was reversed (sorted now from newest to oldest), and old entries were added.
- The address of the FSF was changed in various files.

Kismet application is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic.
Kismet identifies networks by passively collecting packets and detecting standard named networks, detecting (and given time, decloaking) hidden networks, and infering the presence of nonbeaconing networks via data traffic.
Main features:
- Ethereal/Tcpdump compatible data logging
- Airsnort compatible weak-iv packet logging
- Network IP range detection
- Built-in channel hopping and multicard split channel hopping
- Hidden network SSID decloaking
- Graphical mapping of networks
- Client/Server architecture allows multiple clients to view a single
- Kismet server simultaneously
- Manufacturer and model identification of access points and clients
- Detection of known default access point configurations
- Runtime decoding of WEP packets for known networks
- Named pipe output for integration with other tools, such as a layer3 IDS like Snort
- Multiplexing of multiple simultaneous capture sources on a single Kismet instance
- Distributed remote drone sniffing
- XML output
- Over 20 supported card types
Enhancements:
- Additional IDS alerts, fixes for multiple crashes, better BSD support, Win32 native capture with Cace AirPcap devices, Nokia 770/800 support, and other minor updates.

CastCluster provides access to additional content on iTunes, Apple TV, iPod, or a random podcast viewer.

The project currently supports YouTube, Google Video, local disks, and RSS feeds as sources of content. CastCluster uses ffmpeg for video conversion.

python-jabberbot application is a Jabber bot framework for Python that makes it easy to write simple Jabber bots. One can use these Jabber bots to provide information about running systems, to make Web sites interact with Jabber-enabled visitors, or notify the bot owner about updates or changes that are monitored with custom Python scripts.

Programming your own Jabber bot can be fun and helpful. This is python-jabberbot, a Jabber bot framework for Python that enables you to easily write simple Jabber bots. You can use your Jabber bots to provide information about your running systems, to make your website interact with your visitors or notify you about updates or changes you monitor with your Python scripts.

This Jabber bot is partly inspired by the xmpppy example bot.py, but designed to be re-usable and to make it easy to write small Jabber bots that do one thing and do it well.

Gambit project is a library of game theory software and tools for the construction and analysis of finite extensive and normal form games.
Gambit is designed to be portable across platforms: it currently is known to run on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, and Windows 98 and later.
Main features:
- A graphical user interface, based upon the wxWidgets (nee wxWindows) library, providing a common look-and-feel across platforms.
- A Python API for scripting applications (under development).
- A library of C++ source code for representing games, suitable for use in other applications.
Enhancements:
- bug fixes

GENU is a system for managing comments, news, polls, posts, and users. GENU is fully customizable through a template system and supports multiple languages.
GENU is an open-source software distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL license.
Main features:
- Easy installation
- Full customisation with templates
- Multiple language interface
- Unlimited news organised into unlimited categories
- Comments system with reply and edit possibilities
- Bulletin board
- Polls
- Users management
- Complete administration interface
- Search engine
- Submit and send news functions
- Smilies support
- BBCode or HTML tags support
- Headlines generation

CTorrent_ipv6 is a BitTorrent Client program written in C/C++ for Linux and FreeBSD. Fast and small are CTorrent_ipv6s two strengths.

The application works only with new internet protocol called IPv6 or IPng.

Generic Options:

-h/-H Show this message.
-x Decode metainfo(torrent) file only, dont download.
-c Check exist only. dont download.

Download Options:

-e int Exit while seed hours later. (default 72 hours)
-p port Listen port. (default 2706 -> 2106)
-s save_as Save file/directory/metainfo as...
-C cache_size Cache size,unit MB. (default 16MB)
-f Force seed mode. skip hash check at startup.
-b bf_filename Bit field filename. (use it carefully)
-M max_peers Max peers count.
-m min_peers Min peers count.
-B rate Max bandwidth (unit KB/s)
-P peer_id Set Peer ID [-C61304-]

How to install:

$ ./configure
$ make install
$ hash
$ ctorrent_ipv6 -h