Free very nice software for linux

Ermixer is a very sophisticated OSS mixer with a lot of usefull features.
The simplest way to compile this package is usual:
1. `cd to the directory containing the packages source code and type `./configure to configure the package for your system. If youre using `csh on an old version of System V, you might need to type `sh ./configure instead to prevent `csh from trying to execute `configure itself.
Running `configure takes a while. While running, it prints some messages telling which features it is checking for.
2. Type `make to compile the package.
3. Type `make install to install the programs and any data files and documentation.
4. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing `make clean.
Main features:
- handling of multiple profiles files;
- Real Time support;
- complete interface to the mixer capatibilities;
- a nices qt gui and curses interface;
- command line interface.
Enhancements:
- Now ermixer have a very nice qt gui which improve ease of usage.

KernelKit is a Knoppix GNU/Linux derivative targetting the development of Linux kernel and drivers, as well as Free Sofware embedded systems. It is currently being used in our Embedded Linux Training sessions.
Differences with standard Knoppix GNU/Linux:
- Removed applications not related to Linux kernel, drivers and embedded systems: games, office applications...
- Added tools and libraries for kernel and software development, in particular cross-compiling toolchains for many different architectures
Usefulness
- Embedded Linux trainings: provide all the needed tools in a tested configuration. No need to install a GNU/Linux distribution. No need to check installed package versions prerequisites.
- Embedded Linux demonstration: helps to discover, try and demonstrate useful tools in this technical area.
- Kernel, driver and embedded application development: toolkit to get the job done quickly and efficiently. Useful for support people away from their regular desktop, or for people who are not allowed to install software by themselves.
Cross-compiling toolchains
- uClibc toolchains: cross-compiling toolchains for the following architectures: arm, i386, ppc, m68k, mips, mipsel
Development
- ccache: a C/C++ compiler cache. Can save a lot of time when you compile the kernel over and over again.
- doxygen: a documentation system.
- SCons: a Software construction tool. A strong alternative to autoconf / automake / make.
- Splint: static C code checker.
Cross-compiling toolchains
- uClibc toolchains: cross-compiling toolchains for the following architectures: arm, i386, ppc, m68k, mips, mipsel
Kernel development
- git: the new kernel source management system.
- cogito: a git front-end.
Emulation
- QEMU: a cpu and system emulator for several platforms. Great to experiment with i386 or ppc embedded systems.
- SkyEye. An emulator for several popular ARM boards.
Performance analysis
- Linux Trace Toolkit": user space tools for analyzing system performance. Note that you can only analyse results so far, and not produce data, as the current KernelKit kernel doesnt have support yet for LTT.
- Valgrind: memory debugger and performance analysis tool for x86 Linux.
Lightweight applications for embedded systems
- Dillo: a very light and fast web browser.
- e3: a microscopic editor supporting several interface types (vi, emacs...).
Unix learning help
- fish: the Friendly Interactive SHell makes it much easier to use the Unix command line. The best way to start for beginners (Caution:: strangely broken in the latest KernelKit release)
- vimtutor: part of the vim package. Very nice way to learn vi in 30 minutes!
Misc
- gkermit: a serial communication utility.
- Psyco: a kind of Just In Time compiler for Python. Useful for running the BitBake / OpenEmbedded tool faster.
- xvncviewer: a VNC client. Sometimes useful to display target graphics on the host system.
Enhancements:
- This release adds the texinfo 4.8.dfsg.1-4 package (needed to run buildroot).

aeon is a music player that is meant to look nice and have an interface that is as easy to use as possible.

In contrast to BMPx it is entirely library based, which means you cant add individual files to it, but you have rather to add them to the library beforehand.

You can only play files from the library (akin to RhythmBox/iTunes).

Kontact Personal Information Management suite unites mature and proven KDE applications (called components in the context) under one roof. Thanks to the powerful KParts technology, all components are seamlessly integrated into one application.
The components of KDE Kontact are all shaped to work nice with each other. This results in features like intuitive drag n dropping between components and appointment handling, task lists and contacts.
KDE Kontact also extends its components with support for various groupware servers. When using these servers your workgroup will have access to features like shared email folders, group task lists, calendar sharing, central addressbooks and meeting scheduling.
In short: KDE Kontact delivers innovations to help you manage your communications more easily, organize your work faster and work together more closely, resulting in more productivity and efficiency in digital collaboration.
Main features:
The Summary Component
- This component is specially made for KDE Kontact. It provides both an overview of the other components and a selection of information gathered from the internet like weather info and headlines. In fact any RDF news feed can be added.
The Mail Component
- The mail component is provided by KMail, the KDE mail client -- a straight forward mail client that comes with all features you would expect.
The Calendar Component
- It is quite obvious that KOrganizer, again very mature KDE application, gets used as the calendar component. This feature-rich program is so easy to use and intuitive that you will quickly adopt it as your personal organizer. Extended with groupware functionality it can boost the communication within every workgroup.
The Contacts Component
- As the name implies: this component manages your valued contacts. The application providing this component is KAddressbook, a program that is deeply rooted into KDE. It was integrated in KMail and KOrganizer even before the KDE Kontact project was started
The Notes Component
- This component serves as your infinite block of digital sticky notes. Your can stick them on your desktop and they say visible even after closing KDE Kontact.
The News Component
- This straight forward, full-featured news reader is provided by KNode, KDEs default news reader.
The Sync Component
- KitchenSync, KDEs universal syncing application provides a framework for syncing with all kinds of devices. On one side it will have a plugin based interface with your mobile devices, like: PDAs and smart phones. On the other side it has conduits for connecting with other KDE Kontact components and external applications. The Sync component, provided by KitchenSync, is currently being implemented, therefore KitchenSync is not yet considered to be stable. Till the day that KitchenSync takes over we have two very nice applications that seamlessly integrate with KDE Kontact: KPilot for syncing with Palm compatible devices and Kandy for syncing with several mobile phone types. Eventually, KitchenSync will become a universal syncing framework.

Martian Memory project consists of a simple memory game.
Martian Memory is a simple memory game oriented to kids, featuring the Pachi el marcianos world characters.
The goal of the game is to pick up two identical chips from a board that contains 32. The game contains very nice visual effects, sounds, and very nice music composed by Jonne Valtonen.
Installing
Just do:
./configure
make
make install (as root).
Enhancements:
- Added the -f or --fullscreen switch.
- Changed some chips (removed bloody ones) the game is now "child safe".
- program exits if close window or press [F10].
- if two scores are equal they are ordered by minor time.
- time stops during a combo FX.
- the hiscores screen displays a "press right mouse button to return" sign.

qvsgraph is a tool to visualize qmail-scanner results. qvsgraph project mainly consists of two PHP scripts.

One is used to fill the results into a MySQL database, and the other one generates nice graphical statistics and outputs images in PNG format which are highly configurable.

FUR is a application that let the user mount a Windows CE based device on your Linux file system: it uses the brilliant FUSE (acronym of File system in UserSpacE of Miklos Szeredi) and the great librapi2 of the Synce Project, a unix implementation of the RAPI protocol (that your device use to communicate with your other operating $ystem ) which you can find here, along with other very nice tools.
You execute it with proper arguments, then (if everything goes fine) the entire file system of your (previously connected) handheld will appear automagically mounted like a regular Linux file system where you will be able to copy, move read and write data with your favorite programs.
FUR filesystem means FUSE use libRAPI.
What dose not?
- Not very stable, particulary if used concurrently by different processes (but should be usable).
- Not well tested.
- The source is horrible(Tm).
- The implementation is more involved than it should.
- Lack documentation.
- Not even remotely optimized.
- Configuration tools deficient.
- Random access I/O is anti-optimized.
- Write is bugged (maybe a problem with concurrent file access).
- The resource locking system (e.g. to prevent different processes to write on the same file) is only roughly implemented (theres a lot to be done).
- Total absence of a caching system of some sort (which i hope to implement, sooner or later).
- Some errors are to obscure (and maybe not well implemented).
- Some attributes (e.g. ctime) are not implemented (the needed function in the librapi2 library is not yet implemented).
- No UID/GID check: this is not a security issue: only the user that invoke the dccm demon can access the filesystem, but other users should be able to see some kind of error message (which i will implement soon).
- Lot of other things i have forgot now.
- The log reporting suck