Free stockholm university february 2006 software for linux

HelloUsers is a Web application for communication between network administrators and users. It is like a notice board.

It contains an extended administrative panel and assures that a news item from an administrator will be viewed by network users.

It uses iptables to redirect Web traffic to a local HTTP server located on the network router.

Boston University Linux is based on Fedora Core Linux, but specifically tailored for the BU environment.

Weve added security updates, made modifications to make software work better with the way things are set up here, and added some applications that we think you might like to have.

The server edition of BU Linux provides a modern, stable, and robust server platform suitable for long-term deployment in many roles throughout the university.

Supported Hardware

Currently, only i686-class machines are supported. This includes almost everything from Intels Pentium Pro on. AMD64 and Intel EM64T systems will work fine using their 32-bit mode. Watch for a 64-bit version later this summer.

Specific Notes on Server Applications

Mail Server:

BU Linux 4.5 Server Edition (Zodiac) includes three different choices of Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) for your mail server. Each of these open source servers has its unique strengths, and you can install one or more and use the utility system-switch-mail to choose which is active.

The default is IBMs Postfix, which is designed from scratch to be secure and easily configurable. On a newly-installed BU Linux machine, Postfix is configured to exchange mail on the local machine and to send mail out to other systems, but not receive mail from the network. For this reason, outgoing mail from global BU accounts (those matching valid BU login names and with the proper UID) will appear to come from @bu.edu rather than @hostname.bu.edu. Local users (including system accounts) will retain the hostname, but without reconfiguration, any replies will bounce. Changing the system to accept mail is easy; see the BU Linux web site for details.

For the maximum flexibility and for compatibility with existing configurations (and with existing expertise), we also include the traditional standard Sendmail. And, if you have particular special needs, you may find that the new Exim MTA fits your situation best.

No matter which MTA you choose, please contact us if you need any assistance. With so many options available, the situation can be confusing, and its unfortunately easy for an accidentally misconfigured system to become a target for spam relayers. We have significant expertise at configuring both Postfix and Sendmail in a variety of situations, and will be glad to help.

FTP Server:

This release of BU Linux provides two options for FTP. The first is vsftpd, which is designed to be simple and secure. This is the most appropriate for almost all situations, but if you require more power and flexibility, we also include ProFTPd, which has many more options and a configuration syntax similar to that of the Apache web server.

Please also remember that FTP is an insecure protocol and that any passwords used travel over the network in plain text. For this reason, its best to avoid anything but anonymous FTP. For user-authenticated file transfer, use SSH and SFTP. (SFTP is provided by the OpenSSH server and enabled by default.)

Web Server:

The web server software included in BU Linux is the industry-standard Apache httpd. We also include PHP 4.3 and many other useful tools for building a web server.
If you need to provide authenticated access to web services to BU users, please contact us and we will provide you with our University-standard Weblogin module. This provides a powerful and flexible means of single-signon access control for the BU user community and we want to make it as easy as possible for you to provide this for your users.

Database Server:

BU Linux includes MySQL 4.1 and PostgreSQL 7.4. For less demanding SQL applications, we also provide SQLite 3, which provides simple SQL databases without the management overhead of running a SQL server.

Shohei is a multi-language, multi-function, multi-server, multi-user, multi-context, multi-media web-based mail client, news client, calendar and note server.
Shohei is a pop3 client which meets the requirements of Stockholm public network.
Main features:
- Sends mail using SMTP
- Receives mail using POP
- Handles users in any number of domains on any number of servers
- Web based administration with different admins for different domains
- MIME aware
- Usenet News client
- Online context-sensitive help
- Customizable using HTML templates with embedded macros
- Calendar
- Write simple notes
- English and Swedish message catalogs, new ones are easily added

Vector Visuals provides an easy-to-use, object-based API for creating and manipulating Java2D-rendered shapes and images. The project features object embedding, dynamic connectors, and multithreaded task support.
Vector Visuals has been downloaded thousands of times, and is already in use in a variety of applications. A few that we know of are a business ontology viewer, a particle simulator, and a childrens e-book builder.
Enhancements:
- This release of is a combination of bugfixes and new features.
- Persistence delegates were added for all of the Vector Visuals objects.
- The examples were moved out into their own source folder.
- Additionally, the entire product is now licensed under a permissive "New BSD"-style license.

Mp3 renamer 2006 by MiKe is a shell script for Linux. MP3 renamer goes by the Unix name of rename-mp3. It looks at MP3 files in a Directory and, using id3v2, will rename all the mp3 files in a nice format according to the id3 tags rename-mp3 will look at both v1 and v2 id3 tags, and will make the output file in a Title-Album-Artist.mp3 format.
It saves time, and not only will it read the id3 tags, but in the event that the MP3 file has no id3 tags, you will be given 4 options
1)abort 2)skip 3)rename 4)write id3 tags, and you are asked what you would like the id3 tag artist, track name and album to be.
This is great if you want the track to be easy to view and yet you still like having a library of music that is all tagged nicely!
Enhancements:
- New stuff: The INSTALLER now works, whereas before it wouldnt copy...

SOFEA project is a Matlab object-oriented Finite Element toolkit.
It includes the book, A Pragmatic Introduction to Finite Element Analysis for Structural Engineers.
The toolkit provides linear transient thermal analysis capabilities, with stress analysis and coupled multi-physics coming shortly.
Enhancements:
- Many additional examples, a few corrections of errors or inconsistencies.

Minisip project is a SIP User Agent ("Internet telephone") developed at KTH currently running on Linux. Keywords: Secure VoIP; SIP; MIKEY; RTP; SRTP; SDP; Video Telephony; Push-to-talk. You can download it for free from the download page.

Minisip is developed by Ph.D and Master students at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.

The source code is available as a number of libraries under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and applications under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL).