Free what is democracy software for linux

Play What I Mean project allows a user to, from a single commandline or terminal, enter a string, or list of strings, that represent what he/she wishes to have played by whatsoever media player he chooses, the default being MPlayer, and then having that particular item be found and played.
What this essentially means is that if I were to have a sudden hankering to listen to a particular song or video, lets say Ice Pick by The Pillows, which happens to be the song to a particular music video that I enjoy watching. Under the traditional methods of video viewing I would be stuck with two potential courses of action for playing this particular file:
- Change directories several times to that one folder somewhere that I "know" its in, or
- Point and Click my mouse until I find that same directory and then search through what could be countless files to find it.
Each of these prospective choices have their own inherent difficulties and ire. Using the commandline often requires alot of typing to arrive at the desired directory, often times nestled deep within the tree.
Once there your problems only multiply by the number of files you actually store in your "media" folder, try ls | moreing through a heavily populated folder looking for the name of that file you wanted to play sometime, it isnt too fun and further is a waste of my valuable time.
You may be thinking at this point that the second option, the graphical one, must be easier since its exciting, full of pictures, and frankly novel, I disagree. I may not be the best judge on this matter, seeing as how I cant see out of my right eye however, I feel that scanning through a large folder, or folders, full of files is quite a strain on the vision, and more importantly an unnescesary burden on what should be a simple matter.
Main features:
- Nestable Playlist support
- Multi-string arguments
- Transparent command option passing
- Cache for faster access of frequently played files
- Graphical configure

Zile project is a small Emacs clone. Zile is a customizable, self-documenting real-time open-source display editor. Zile was written to be as similar as possible to Emacs; every Emacs user should feel at home.
Main features:
Small
- It is very useful for small footprint installations (like on floppy disk) or quick editing sessions. A typical binary is about 100Kb.
8-bit clean
- Zile can operate with binary files.
Looks like Emacs
- Most Zile key sequences and function names are identical to Emacs ones.
Multi buffer editing with multi level undo
- The number of files and undo operations that Zile can handle is limited only by memory.
Multi window
- Zile can display multiple windows on the screen.
Killing, yanking and registers
- The standard killing, yanking and register features of Emacs are available under Zile.
Minibuffer completion
- Zile can complete commands and filenames in the minibuffer.
Auto fill (word wrap)
- Zile automatically breaks the lines when they become too wide (if the Auto Fill Mode is enabled).
Enhancements:
- This release stops long file names from causing problems with the modeline.

qingy is a replacement for getty. It uses DirectFB to provide a fast, nice GUI without the overhead of the X Windows System.
Qingy Is Not Getty project allows the user to log in and start the session of his choice (text console, GNOME, KDE, wmaker, etc.).
Main features:
- It remembers last user who logged in, with focus on password
- It also rememebers last session each user chose
- Alternatively it remembers last session on a per-tty basis
- Fully themable
- A theme will look the same on all machines, independently of the resolution
- You can select your favourite theme, or a random one every time
- Both text and X sessions are supported
- You can start more that one X session at once
- You can even start X inside a console when X sessions are already running
- PAM support
- Support for screen savers
- Auto log-in support
- Session locking support
- tty specific options support
- Customizable key bindings.
- Text mode support
Enhancements:
- Detached qingy from its controlling tty when starting sessions.
- qingy no longer tries to kill its GUI as it should not hang any more.
- Fixed bug that made shells other that zsh be invoked with a double -; that is --bash instead of -bash, which is the correct form for login shell invocation.
- Added proper escaping for session names, removed quoting around them.
- Added support for selecting whether to start the X server in the same tty qingy is running in (default for qingy), or in an unused one (default for startx)

Vamos software allows computers to run software directly from the network, without installations. The software is stored on servers and is centrally maintained without the users effort or attention.

rootz is a new no install system that works differently. It mounts complete live systems over the web, and make them available locally. With rootz you can attach your local linux system to various livecds and simply run applications without any installation.

rootz is connected to the desired image (iso or squashfs), and uses rootz:// links to launch applications. The main advantage of this system, is that it uses unchanged official software without any repackaging (as opposed to klik, zero install or autopackage). Moreover, it is a true "on demand" mechanism that does not require full download of the software but fetches only the needed files. rootz can set up multiple isolated chroot environments, so it is possible run stable application side by side with new bleeding edge software.

Installation:

as non-root:
wget http://vamosproject.com/upload/rootz/install -O -| sh

Setup

The syntax is: rootz url.of.iso/.squash mountpoint

Examples:

Vamos client:
sudo mkdir /mnt/vamos
sudo ~/rootz/rootz http://vamosproject.com/upload/vamos-client-1.0b.squashfs /mnt/vamos

From this chroot you can run frozen bubble
Ubunutu Feisty Fawn:
sudo mkdir /mnt/feisty
sudo ~/rootz/rootz http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/releases/feisty/herd-2/feisty-desktop-i386.iso /mnt/feisty

From this chroot you can run gaim
Debian Live with XFCE:
sudo mkdir /mnt/debian-live
sudo ~/rootz/rootz http://live.debian.net/daily-builds/current/i386/debian-live-sid-i386-xfce-desktop.iso /mnt/debian-live

From this chroot you can run thunar
Ubuntu "Ultimate":
sudo mkdir /mnt/ultimate
sudo ~/rootz/rootz http://fly5.pp.fi/ultimate/ubuntu-ultimate1.1.iso /mnt/ultimate

From this chroot you can run Democracy player

Run

You just need to click on those rootz:// links above, and wait... After few runs the page cache will contain common libs and files so applications will run faster.

Another option is to rootz-launcher in the command line interface. With this script you will be able to run non-gui programs.

Example:

~/rootz/rootz-launcher dpkg -l

demexp is a client/server system for direct democracies. demexp makes it possible to ask questions in the system, add new answers to those questions, and vote on proposed answers.
The voting procedure used is Condorcet voting. Questions are classified, and a delegation system allows ones vote for certain questions to be assigned to a chosen delegate.
The software is tailored to the needs of the Democratic Experience project.
Enhancements:
- A new configuration file that supports version upgrading.
- Support for client internationalization. Translations of the (English) client into French and Esperanto.
- An experimental Web client in OCaml (using WDialog). Improvement of the Windows installer.
- Simplification of the clients interface.
- Tooltips on column titles.
- Various bugfixes in the client and the server.

Sabayon Linux is a live DVD designed to transform a computer into a powerful Gentoo Linux system in less than 5 minutes.
Gentoo Linux is a Linux distribution powered by a software install manager engine called "Portage". Besides functioning as a live DVD, Sabayon Linux can also be installed on a hard disk, acting effectively as an easy-to-use Gentoo installation disk.
The live DVD includes a large range of desktop environments and open source software applications, such as KDE, GNOME, XFce, Fluxbox, KOffice, OpenOffice.org, FreeNX, amaroK, Kaffeine, etc.
Enhancements:
- Linux kernel 2.6.19 with sata_promise driver now supports PATA connectors too; NdisWrapper updated to 1.34rc2; KVM now is detected and works out of the box on VT-enabled CPUs; KDE Print control panel now works; AbiWord updated to 2.4.6; Democracy Player updated to 0.9.2.1; Amarok now works; ALSA updated to 1.0.14rc1; Flash Player updated to 9.0.21.78; installer: multi-user configuration now works; highly improved boot time by triggering doslowusb only when really needed; OpenGL auto-configuration now takes half of the time to configure video card....