Free small software for linux

grml-small is a bootable CD (Live-CD) based on Knoppix and Debian. grml-small includes a collection of GNU/Linux software for system administrators and provides automatic hardware detection.

Whereas grml (without the -small) provides more than about 2.1GiB of software on a 700MB-ISO, grml-small is a very small rescue system for systemadministrators.

It is not necessary to install anything to a harddisk, you dont even need a harddisk to run it. Due to on-the-fly decompression grml-small includes about 150 MB of software and still fits on a business card CD-ROM or USB device with 50MB.

Initial release of grml-small, a very small version of the grml-system. Notice that there are several hacks to reduce the ISO-size, so you wont find for example documentation and manpages on the ISO.

grml-small provides support for booting via USB, see http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb for details.

Kernel is based on vanilla kernel 2.6.12 including several patches (MPPC/MPPE, Reiser4, Squashfs,...) but compared with the normal grml system the kernel features have been reduced. See http://grml.org/kernel/ for more details.

Small Telnet Chat provides a chat server to which you can connect via a telnet client.

Small Telnet Chat (STC) is a chat server to which you can connect via a telnet client. It provides logging, automatic kicking, and IP blocking.

Requirements

Server: All you need are the files of the chatserver and a functional JRE.

Client: To connect to the server you need at VT100 capable telnet client.
Simple telnet to a server on which the STC is running. (You need to know the port on which the server is listening since STC can run on any port).

STC is known to work with:
-> PuTTY works fine
-> Win2000 telnet works
-> WinXP telnet works (some versions of WinXP telnet seem to have problems but up to date ones (with service packs, etc.) work)
-> Linux telnet (netkit) works

Installation

No special installation procedure is required. Simply unpack the archive into a directory and run it.

The configuration file (config.xml) has to be in the same directory as the server.

For those who want to put the server to place where executables usually reside (/usr/local/bin, etc.), a .jar file is provided.

Running

To run the chatserver, cd into the directory into which you have copied the files.

Run the server by typing:
java stc

Small Arms Ballistics is, as the name says, a ballistics calculator for small arms fire. It is a terminal application written using curses.
Small Arms Ballistics is derived from smallball, which was written by Ole-Hj. Kristensen. I have pretty much rewritten the entire program, but smallball got me started. All major
trajectory calculations have been implemented, and a variety of bullet drag models are available.
The program needs a color capable terminal, otherwise it wont run.
Enhancements:
- distribution didnt include saballistics.lsm.in

Damn Small Linux Not is built on Damn Small Linux technology. Damn Small Linux Not is also small, bigger than DSL but smaller than most. Damn Small Linux Not provides a reliable, and compact array of applications based mostly on the GTK2 libraries.
DSL-N is not an evolution of DSL, it is not intended as progress over the philosophy of DSL, but is intended for a different user, or the same user under different circumstances.
Main features:
- it is small
- it has software which is feature full
- it takes advantage of redundant lib dependencies and suits to pack features into a tight distribution
- DSL-N has a modern kernel and does not squeeze out critical modules that would limit compatibility
Like DSL, DSL-n can:
- Boot from from a CD as a live Linux distribution (LiveCD)
- Boot from a USB pen drive
- Boot from within a host operating system (thats right, it can run *inside* Windows)
- Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call "frugal install"
- Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install
- Run fully in RAM
- Modularly grow -- DSL-N is highly extendable without the need to customize
- The applications in DSL-N were chosen because they are functional, usable, and relatively compact. Unlike DSL, DSL-N has GTK2 applications, that means DSL-N will need more ram and CPU cycles than DSL. To have a pleasant experience, we recommend at least 64MBs and 300MHz.
DSL-N, unlike DSL, does not have a hard size cap, but it is being developed by the DSL team, and we hate bloat! So, dont expect DSL-N to get too big.
Why are you making this offshoot of DSL when DSL is so successful? Because a 50MB, GTK2 based distribution, with a 2.6.x kernel and excellent hardware detection/support is a contradiction in terms. DSL-N represents our best effort to stay compact while providing for the needs of those who want the Bling Bling such as SATA support, Gnumeric, Abiword, gMplayer.
Enhancements:
- Added "noprompt noeject" to default boot options for frugal installs.
- Fixed madwifi wireless.
- Fixed chpasswd vs passwd. "secure" boot option now works correctly.
- Added gnu-utils into the base iso.
- Fixed USB2 not loading bug
- Improved mydsl=hdxy when specified to not also search this makes it consistent with restore boot option.
- Enhanced exitcheck to prompt warning if no backup device is selected when requested to save special settings.
- Fixed multi user hard drive install bug.
- Added murgaLua Lua/Fltk development toolkit.

Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) bootable Live CD Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size, Damn Small Linux strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop.
Having a working Linux desktop distro on a 50 mb bootable business card CD is just too cool not to do.
Damn Small Linux has a nearly complete desktop, including XMMS (MP3, and MPEG), FTP client, Dillo web browser, links web browser, FireFox, spreadsheet, Sylpheed email, spellcheck (US English), a word-processor (FLwriter), four editors (Beaver, nVi, Zile [emacs clone], and Nano [Pico clone]), graphics editing and viewing (Xpaint, and xzgv), Xpdf, emelFM (file manager), Naim (AIM, ICQ, IRC), VNCviwer, Rdesktop, SSH/SCP server and client, DHCP client, PPP, PPPoE (ADSL), a web server, calculator, generic and GhostScript printer support, NFS, Fluxbox window manager, games, system monitoring apps, a host of command line tools, USB support, and pcmcia support, some wireless support.
If you like DSL you can install it on your hard drive. Because all the applications are small and light it makes a very good choice for older hardware.
Originally DSL was based on model_k, which did an excellent distillation of Knoppix down to 33 megabytes. But more recent versions are a reduction from Knoppix proper.
As many know Knoppix is based on Debian which really made my task a lot easier, but the applications on the CD are not pure Debian. I am using a few apps that are not available via apt-get.
Whats New in 4.0 RC1 Development Release:
- New pendrive usbhdd installation script now uses grub with DSL on 2nd small partition.
- Removed pendrive usbzip install script, syslinux and mtools.
- Changed default root menu from dfm to chosen WM menu.
- Updated "Getting Started" to reflect changed defaults.
- Changed kernel from 2.4.34.1 to 2.4.31 to gain user contributed modules, e.g., ipw2and nvidia.
- Created new support modules: cloop, unionfs, ndiswrapper, fuse, and madwifi in support of kernel change.
- Updated nano-tiny to v2.0.6.
- Fixed non-critical bug in dsl-config concerning hard drive installations.
- Added dsl 3 runlevel for multiple user dsl consoles.
- Fixed bug in iwconfig-setup
- Updated functions5.lua
- Updated fluxbox menus to use system default (helvetica).
- Added vim link
- Patched knoppix-autoconfig to correct language issues.

SAgl is a portable small antialiased graphics library. It offers lines, circles, and bezier curves, as well as thick lines and fills.

It can be used on top of SDL or with X or any other graphics system.

Simple Sound for Small Devices (libsssd) is a simple cross-platform audio library. Simple Sound for Small Devices is designed primarily for games on portable devices such as smart phones, PDAs, and hand-helds.
Simple Sound for Small Devices is designed as a very portable, cross-platform API for sound playback on small and embedded devices. Target platforms include smartphones, PDAs, Smart displays, webpads and embedded systems.
Target OSes include Linux (OSS/Free), Win32, WinCE/PPC/Smartphone, Symbian, and AmigaDE (both hosted and native). The library is biased toward real-time audio applications (like games), but is suitable for a wide array of other uses.
Installation:
To install the libsssd library, cd to the src direcotry and type make install
To make the demo applications, cd to the test directory and type make
Enhancements:
- Updated code to work with libsndfile 1.0.5
- Modularized each function for OSs that support tool libraries (AmigaDE)
- Added initAudio() and freeAudio() functions to allocate the control structure as different compilers may not pack the struct the same.
- Added support to init the audio player with different sample rates, bit depths, and channels (stereo, mono). Added support for user setting max number of playing channels and max number of cached samples at init time.
- fixed bug in player thread overflow functions (la,lb)

SMA software consists of a small collection of programs that perform different tests for association between genotypes at a single marker and a binary disease status.