Free xp software for linux

XPde is a complete desktop environment for Linux on x86. It tries to make easier for Windows XP users to use a Linux box.
Nothing more, no clipboard compatibility between Gtk and Qt applications, no emulation of Windows applications, no unification on the widgets of X applications, just a desktop environment.
Enhancements:
- The desktop now fully uses PNG+Alpha channel, so you can use the icons of your choice anywhere
- The icon theme has been updated to the latest crystal svg, but not all icons are included, just the needed ones
- The used font now is Bitstream vera, which looks very similar to tahoma
- Now, Im using QTheme from Andreas Hausladen: http://mitglied.lycos.de/AndreasHausladen/Delphi/Kylix/CLXPatches/unitcomp.html#QThemed
- Still some work to do on this field.
- The desktop now is a XPShellListView control, that means that is based on the XPListView control will be used to build the explorer and that uses the XPDirectoryMonitor, a component that maintain an update list of files from a directory and it gets notified about changes without polling or using FAM
- The desktop now repaints significantly faster, I have spent most of the time optimizing the code to make it work faster in lower resources machines
- The taskbar is also completely new, is built using bitmaps, as you can see in the shot and can be themed very easily
- The window manager is mostly new, it also allows you to use themes, including rounded window frames.

Clearlooks-XPSilver is yet another excellent addition for Gnome users. It is actually a theme that aims to replicate Windows XP Silver color scheme, but the final result is a little different.

UPX is a versatile executable packer.
Main features:
- excellent compression ratio: typically compresses better than WinZip/zip/gzip, use UPX to decrease the size of your distribution !
- very fast decompression: ~10 MB/sec on an ancient Pentium 133, ~200 MB/sec on an Athlon XP 2000+.
- no memory overhead for your compressed executables because of in-place decompression.
- safe: you can list, test and unpack your executables. Also, a checksum of both the compressed and uncompressed file is maintained internally.
- universal: UPX can pack a number of executable formats:
- atari/tos
- djgpp2/coff
- dos/com
- dos/exe
- dos/sys
- linux/386
- rtm32/pe
- tmt/adam
- watcom/le (supporting DOS4G, PMODE/W, DOS32a and CauseWay)
- win32/pe
- portable: UPX is written in portable endian-neutral C++
- extendable: because of the class layout its very easy to add new executable formats or new compression algorithms
- free: UPX is distributed with full source code under the GNU General Public License, and may be used freely even with commercial programs.

sx360 is an open source c++ library for dealing with 360 column binary format. Although it is in its infancy, it is very complete in its featureset. The library supports files greater than 4 GB in size.
Project files are available for XCode, Visual Studio 2005, and Linux (autoconf/automake).
sx360 has been tested on :
- Mac OS X 10.4
- CentOS 5 (32 and 64 bit)
- Ubuntu 7.04 (32 bit)
- Windows XP SP2

EasyBMP is a simple, cross-platform C++ library designed for easily reading, writing, and modifying Windows bitmap (BMP) image files. You can learn more about the history and goals of the project here.
The library is oriented towards the novice programmer with little formal experience, but it is sufficiently capable for anybody who desires to do I/O and pixel operations on 1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, 24-bit, or 32-bit BMP files.
EasyBMP is intended to be cross-platform on both little-endian (e.g., x86, x86-64) and big-endian (e.g., IBM PowerPC, Sun Sparc) architectures. So far, it has been tested on x86 with Linux (2.4.x, 2.6.x kernels and g++ and icc) and Windows (XP Pro, XP Home, and 2K Pro with MinGW/g++), as well as on a Sun Sparc 4 machine (Solaris 5.9 with g++). EasyBMP should be solid on little-endian architectures and experimental on big-endian architectures.
Enhancements:
- This bug focuses on minor bugfixes, particularly in the copy constructor.
- Numerous other small bugs have also been fixed.

GemDropGL is an online enabled block-and-pit puzzler, with bombs!

Programming Language: C++, Objective C (editor)
Graphics API: OpenGL, Cocoa (editor)
Sound API: OpenAL

This is the puzzle game Ive always wanted to write. A decent competitive mode, a cooperative mode, both of which support Internet play, 90 stages with the ability to create your own...

Be sure that you have the necessary OpenAL and ALUT libraries from here before attempting to run.

Download includes Linux, Mac OS X and Windows 2000/XP versions.

DAPHNE is a Free laserdisc game emulator that allows one to play laserdisc arcade games on ones PC. Using DAPHNE, one can play the following laserdisc arcade games:
- Astron Belt
- Badlands
- Begas Battle
- Cliff Hanger
- Cobra Command (running on Astron Belt hardware)
- Dragons Lair (US)
- Eshs Aurunmilla
- Galaxy Ranger
- Space Ace (US)
- Star Blazer
- Super Don Quix-ote
- Thayers Quest
The main question everyone seems to want to know is whether you need a real laserdisc and a real laserdisc player to play games with DAPHNE.
The answer is you do NOT need a real laserdisc player to play games with DAPHNE. DAPHNE can emulate a real laserdisc player using mpeg files. However, if you happen to have a real laserdisc and a real laserdisc player, you CAN use them with DAPHNE.
DAPHNE is available for i386 GNU/Linux, i386 FreeBSD, Mac OSX and Windows 2000/XP. It also may work on older versions of Windows such as 95/98/ME but performance will not be as smooth (rather jerky when using mpeg files).

PerlActor is a simple automated executable acceptance test framework for Perl.

PerlActor is a simple automated executable acceptance test framework for Perl. It can be used by Extreme Programming (XP) teams to rapidly develop executable acceptance tests for their Perl code.

XP mandates that the Customer writes acceptance tests for the application under development. The acceptance tests, also known as customer tests, demonstrate that application features are complete and that they work as expected. Ideally, the tests should be directly executable and automated so that they can be run continuously, without manual effort.

PerlActor enables an XP Customer to write *executable* acceptance tests as plain text files, using a very simple syntax. Each test consists of a number of parameterized commands (one per line), which PerlActor uses to exercise the application. PerlActor parses the test, invokes the commands with any parameters, and reports the result. The developers provide glue code to implement the commands required by the tests.

PerlActor allows tests to be grouped into suites so that related tests can be run as a group. The Customer can also just place test scripts in a directory structure and have PerlActor find and execute them all.

The PerlActor approach to acceptance testing has a number of advantages:

1) As the application grows the team will gradually develop a comprehensive set of Commands for testing the application.
2) The Customer, independent of the development team, can write and execute new tests for the application at any time, using any of the existing Commands.
3) Existing tests may be changed by the Customer at any time, again without developer help.

EXAMPLE SCRIPT

The following sample test script is adapted from one of the example scripts contained in the examples/calculator directory of this distribution. It tests a toy calculator "application":

# Script to check addition
# 10 + 32 = 42

# Create a new calculator application
NewCalculator

# Ensure that the display reads 0, initially
CheckDisplayReads 0

# Press key 1, then key 0
PressKeys 1 0
CheckDisplayReads 10

PressKeys +
CheckDisplayReads 10

PressKeys 3 2
CheckDisplayReads 32

PressKeys =
CheckDisplayReads 42

The following is sample output from the included test runner:

Running Acceptance Tests at Sun Apr 10 17:59:11 GMT 2005
==========================================================
.....
0.545077 wallclock secs ( 0.42 usr + 0.11 sys = 0.53 CPU)
Run: 5, Passed: 5, Failed: 0, Aborted: 0.
and with test failure:
Running Acceptance Tests at Sun Apr 10 18:04:36 GMT 2005
==========================================================
.F...
1.24811 wallclock secs ( 0.47 usr + 0.07 sys = 0.54 CPU)
Run: 5, Passed: 4, Failed: 1, Aborted: 0.

!!!FAILED!!!

1) FAILED: Display is wrong: expected 41, got 42 in scripts/test_addition.pact
at CheckDisplayReads 41, line 37