Free written in the stars software for linux

The Dark Star is an operating system, optimized for user experience, providing many desktop and office programs.
The Dark Star can fit on MiniDVDs and is distributed as a LiveDistro which can later be installed to harddisk, effectively being an option for those who want FreeBSD, however are scared by the installer and the tons of configuration.
The Dark Star also provides the easy to use DSI - making installing packages -
whether from an FreeBSD 6.1 install CD or downloaded, easy as two or three
clicks with a mouse!
What are you waiting for? Download The Dark Star 4.0 now!
Enhancements:
- More polished. See the forum.

Quantum Star: Generations project is an easy to install and manage space strategy browser-based game.
Quantum Star: Generations is a browser-based space strategy and trading game played across a mapped galaxy against other players. Utilizing mining, trading, research, and production through easy-to-use tools, QS enables both broad micro-management of resources or more "aggregated" methods. Players compete, combat enemy fleets, and manage planets to become the "last man standing". No user downloads are required, and the game is free to host or play.
Quantum Star: Generations Evolved is a browser-based space strategy game. It is playable from any modern browser such as Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. It is written in the PHP programming language and utilises either MySQL or PostgreSQL as a backend database. It is also free for download and may be hosted independently by any user. The game is released under the terms of the Affero General Public License.
Quantum Star: Generations Evolved is a free open source application. Being open source you may modify and redistribute the source code under the terms of the Affero General Public License, or at your option the GNU General Public License version 3 (not version 2).
Main features:
- Free
- Its fun!
- Easy installation
- Support for all versions of MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Support for both PHP4 and PHP5
- Platform independent
- Multiple language support with UTF-8 the standard character encoding
- Focus on security and resource efficiency
- Automated administration tasks
- Did we mention it is fun?

Ptk Phone is a small program written in Perl/Tk to be used as an address book.

It handles email addresses and comments as well.

Enhancements

• Some bugs are fixed
• A menu is added

Requirements:

• Python
• Pygame

the mg2bot is an IRC bot that was originally written to do unique channel maintenance but which now sports a homebrew plugin system, increased channel awareness, and a bot networking capability.
Enhancements:
- Added tinyurl plugin
- Added karma plugin
- Fixed rydia plugin
- Worked out a bug or two from 0.62b
- First non-beta release

JIndex is a beagle clone. It tries to mimic the functionality of Beagle. JIndex is written in Java.
Format support:
- Music (Mp3)
- Documents (PDF, Doc, Openoffice formats)
- Images
- IM conversations

The Pycadia Project is a Vector-based games written in Python.

The Pycadia Project is home to vector gaming, python style. Current project members are SpaceWarpy (a clone of the classic "SpaceWar") and Vektoroids (an Asteroids clone).

The games are fronted by a configurable, easy to use GUI.