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Jaikoz 1.10
Jaikoz is an audio tagger for ID3 and MP3. more>>
Everybody is using MP3s these days. MP3s can be created from CD or downloaded from the Internet, however often these do not contain the correct information to identify and playback the song.
This information is stored in a format known as a Tag. Audio Tag Editor applications are designed to allow you to edit and correct this information.
Unfortunately, most of these applications are adequate when you want to correct a few songs but fail miserably when trying to manage a collection of thousands of songs.
Jaikoz has been specifically designed for managing large music collections. It aims to give you full control of your editing and provide as much automation as possible. Jaikoz is easy to use straight away and the AutoCorrect task can perform a batch of tasks automatically.
Jaikoz uses a spreadsheet view to allow you to edit information more quickly than other applications and provides many autoformatting tasks which do most of the work for you. For example, it compares your MP3s to each other and using this information it can correct missing information and spelling mistakes, we know of no other tagger that does this!
Jaikoz integrates with the MusicBrainz Database, it can lookup information from an online database and correct your tracks, it does this on a file by file basis, unlike other methods you do not need the complete album to do accurate matching.
Jaikoz can extract information from a filename into the tag without you having to specify the format for the filename. The screen is split horizontally to show the original record and the changes you have made so you compare both at the same time. Some applications hide multi-complex fields away but Jaikoz allows you to access the first field of every one from the main view. For example if you have an album cover tag in one mp3 and you want to copy it to other MP3s just copy and paste it.
Jaikoz currently supports tagging of MP3 files with ID3v1,ID3v2,ID3v2.2,ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags. In future versions we aim to add other formats such as Ogg Vorbis and Lyrics3
Jaikoz is written in Java enabling you to use it on Windows, UNIX and Mac OS X
A free trial is available now. Purchases will give free upgrades for life, so if you buy now you will not lose out. Jaikoz is being continually improved and we aim to release new versions every three months in future.
Enhancements:
- This release adds a Detail pane which shows details of the currently-selected MP3 file in a series of tabs.
- The following tabs have been added: summary, info, musicbrainz, sorting, lyrics, and artwork.
- When tagging from MusicBrainz, the following additional fields are now populated: Album Artist, Sort Artist, Sort Album Artist, Is Compilation, MusicBrainz Disc Id, MusicBrainz Release Artist Id, and Release Country.
- The "Is Compilation" field is populated if the MusicBrainz Release Type is Compilation.
- This release adds support for Lyrics.
MainActor 5.5.19
MainActor for Linux is based on a completely revamped engine which makes video editing even more effective and productive. more>>
MainActor v5.5 offers professional video editing under Linux. The application is available for various distributions, such as SuSE 9.3, Debian etc.
MainActor v5s numerous features include the track-based interface and the customizable workspaces, multi-user support as well as working on multiple timelines simultaneously. Furthermore, MainActor v5 offers easy access to all important features. The new capture module enables the user to record digital videos via FireWire.
MainActor 5 for Linux offers professional features almost identical to the features you already know from the Windows version, including DV capture and MPEG-1/2 import and export in a new interface. Now you can test the powerful features of our video editing software under Linux, too. And the serial number for unlocking the application is valid for the Windows as well as the Linux version. Using MainActor 5, video editing is no longer a problem in Linux.
Main features:
Elegant Interface:
- New track-based interface
- Customizable workspaces - save your layouts for use later
- Multi-user functionality
- Familiar timeline concept
- Multiple timelines
- Unlimited audio and video tracks
- Easy access to all features
- Adjustable preview modes
- Explorer-style asset manager
- Drag-and-drop simplicity
Professional Quality:
- Integrated high-quality DV Codec
- Integrated current version of the high-quality MainConcept MPEG Encoder
- Polydiagrams for unprecedented keyframe control
Productivity:
- Convenient clipboards for organizing assets and sharing
- Three different insert modes
- Fast, easy trimmer
- Integrated capturing
- Unique keyword search function
- Numerous keyboard shortcuts
- Realtime preview
- Smart rendering
- Multi-file formats to overcome Windows file size limits
Full DV Support:
- Integrated fast, high-quality DV Codec
- IEEE 1394/FireWire support including OHCI compatibility
Powerful Effects:
- Dozens of transitions, filters and special effects - including many new and exclusive ones
- Powerful compositing with precise control
- Slow-motion/time warp feature
- 2D and 3D motion paths
- Advanced, professional titling
Double Benfit:
- Buy once, use twice - unlock the MainActor v5 Linux and Windows version with the same serial number
Gear Pro 6
Gear Pro is a professional CD and DVD recording capability. more>>
As the most comprehensive DVD/CD-Recording software package for professionals, GEAR PRO Linux incorporates the latest DVD/CD-Recordable technology for Imaging, Mission Critical Archiving, CAD/CAM and Graphics Storage, Title Development, and Pre-master Testing.
GEAR allows you easily and cost effectively store text, large data sets, software, database, audio/video files and back-up information on compact disc with full control over the formatting and mastering process. GEAR Software is pleased to announce that GEAR PRO Linux now supports IDE DVD recorders!
Main features:
- Supports all current Linux kernel releases
- Creation of CD and DVD images for all industry standard disc types including CD-Audio, CD-ROM, CD-XA, Enhanced CD, DVD-ROM, DVD-Video and DVD-Audio
- DVD mastering capabilities for both single and dual sided discs
- Physical format support for mastering DVD-5, DVD-9, DVD-10 and DVD-18
- Able to format discs using ISO9660, UDF (Universal Disc Format), Rockridge and Joliet file extensions
- Comprehensive CD and DVD recorder support for all industry standard media types including DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R dual-layer, DVD-RAM, CD-R and CD-RW
- Support for DLT, Exabyte, and DDS/DAT recording devices for creating DDP (Disc Description Protocol) master tapes
- Conversion of CD and DVD discs or projects to industry standard DDP 1.0 or 2.1 images for professional disc mastering
- Jukebox and autoloader management for in-house mastering, unattended disc replication and multi-disc recording of large data sets for disc duplication
- Batch file scripting capability allows for unattended recording or backup operations to CD and DVD
- Support for links, pipes, device special files, etc with permission and group handling
- Complete command and message-logging capability provides for documentation, post process diagnostics and improved error resolution
- Easy to use Graphical User Interface
Functionality:
- back up mission-critical data to CD and DVD media
- pre-master audio, video, software and game titles
- archive graphics, databases, email, third-party generated data files, music, digital photos and video
- Create cross-platform discs compatible with Windows, UNIX and Mac platforms
- replicate DVD and CD discs using a jukebox
- distribute documents, marketing materials, and other data on a CD or DVD
- copy non-protected DVDs and CDs
- extract content from CD and DVD
- use the media in your CD or DVD recorder for near-line incremental storage
Formatting:
- Supports all CD and DVD formats including CD-Audio, DDP, CD-ROM, CD-XA, Enhanced CD, DVD-ROM, DVD-Video and DVD-Audio
- Provides DVD mastering for single or dual layer discs
- Allows the import of DVD-Video disc images (VIDEO_TS folders) for the creation of DVD-Video titles
- Enables the creation and manipulation of all industry standard file systems and file extensions including ISO9660, UDF 1.02 to UDF 2.5, Rock Ridge and Joliet
- Fast virtual image building requiring less than 5% of the total image size to record
- Direct-to-disc recording of files to UDF volumes
Recorder Support:
- Supports all of the latest CD and DVD recordable drives as well as most legacy devices
- Supports jukeboxes and media changers
- Automatically initiates support for new recorders (automatic drive recognition) without requiring driver or configuration file updates
- Supports test writing, CD and DVD recording speed setting, C2 error checking, multi-session disc creation, disc formatting and other advanced recorder features
- Enables all recording methods including track-at-once, disc-at-once, session-at-once, raw recording and fixed and variable packet writing
- Provides the capability to extract data and audio tracks (ripping)
- Allows direct disc-to-disc CD and DVD copying
Spatializer StreamFX DEMO
Spatializer StreamFX is an 3D surround plugin for both XMMS developed by Spatializer Labs and 4Front Technologies. more>>
XMMS users can now experience the same Spatializer StreamFX enhancements available for WinAmp and provides a very compelling audio package for the growing Internet Appliance market.
StreamFX provides rich 3D audio, enhanced bass support and support for headphone/speaker audio adjustment, adding rich, immersive audio to the already powerful XMMS player.
Installation:
1. Read LICENSE file
2. Run xminstall.sh
3. Run XMMS
Click on the Effects/General Plugin tab folder, click on the Effects selector button and you should see the Spatializer StreamFX plugin as one of the options If you dont see StreamFX as one of the options then please check your XMMS installation and locate the correct directory where your XMMS plugins are stored. You may also need to upgrade to the latest version of XMMS. High-light the option and click on the Enable Plugin button on the Effects Plugin panel.
Click the Configure button and this will bring up the StreamFX control panel. You can now start playing your mp3, wav, mod file and start changing various values on the StreamFX control panel
Usage:
3D-Stereo
Space: controls the amount of 3D-stereo sound
Center: controls the amount of monaural (center) sound
V.i.B.E.
Bass: controls the amount of conventional bass-boost
Virt. Bass: controls the amount of virtual bass-boost
Color: controls the timbre of the virtual bass
Headphones (only used when listening over headphones)
Angle: adjusts the position of "virtual loudspeakers". Slider full left is both directly in front (mono); middle is about +/-45 degrees, full right is about +/-90 degrees.
Transcribe! for Linux 7.50
Software to help transcribing recorded music. Slow down music. Analyze chords. more>> Transcribe! is an assistant for working out a piece of music from a recording. Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smoother and easier, including the ability to slow down the music without changing its pitch, and to analyse chords and show you what notes are present. Features: Depending on version, Transcribe! reads audio from many different types of audio file and audio CD. It displays the audio waveform and allows you to scroll around, place markers for sections, measures and beats, and easily play or loop from any point. You can also add textual annotations. Loops and positions can be stored and recalled. There are many keyboard shortcuts and you can configure these as you like. You can configure Transcribe! to respond to MIDI (not on Linux) so as to keep your hands free : start and stop playback with your feet! There is extensive and readable help accessible from within the program. The "spectrum" feature displays the strength of the various pitches in any chord or note you select, in the form of a graph - a wavy line over a piano keyboard graphic. The height of the various peaks in the graph indicate the strength of the note above which the peak appears. This is not a magic bullet for analysing chords but it can be a very useful source of information. Transcribe! offers various audio processing effects (Slowdown, Pitch Change, EQ filtering etc) intended to help with transcribing. These effects all run in "real time" unless your machine is old & slow download matlab for linux. This means there is no pre-processing or other waiting, the processing is performed on-the-fly while playing and you can instantly hear the effect of changes to EQ etc. For instance if you press the half-speed button while playing then playback simply continues, at half speed.<<less
reads audio from many different types of audio file and audio CD. It displays the audio waveform and allows you to scroll around, place markers for sections, measures and beats, and easily playLicense:Shareware
Transcribe! 7.30
Transcribe! project is an assistant for people who sometimes want to work out a piece of music from a recording. more>>
The usual technique for doing this is to copy the music to cassette and then listen repeatedly to each bit, using your ear and your brain to work out what is happening. Unless you have perfect pitch then you also need a piano or a guitar handy to check out which note is which. However, if you copy the recording to your computers hard disk as a sound file then you can use Transcribe! instead of the cassette machine and the piano.
Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smoother and easier, including the ability to slow down music without changing its pitch, and to analyse chords and show you what notes are present.
It is important to understand that Transcribe! does not attempt to do the whole job, processing an audio file and outputting musical notation - this would be nice, but is a currently unsolved research problem. The spectrum analysis feature is very useful for working out those hard-to-hear chords, but you must still use your ear and brain to decide which of the peaks in the spectrum are notes being played, which are merely harmonics, and which are just the result of noise and broad-spectrum instruments such as drums.
If you have never worked out even a simple piece of music by ear then Transcribe! will probably not help you (see How to Transcribe), but if you do sometimes work out recorded music by ear then Transcribe! can make the job a lot quicker and easier.
Transcribe! takes no interest in MIDI files - these already contain explicit information about what notes are to be played and when, and there are plenty of programs available which can display this information. Transcribe! deals with audio sample data files.
Transcribe! plays and records audio files but it is not an audio editor. It is capable of applying various effects to audio such as speed change, pitch change and EQ. You can save the modified audio to a new sound file if you want.
Main features:
- Depending on version, Transcribe! reads audio from many different types of audio file and audio CD. It also has a "Record" facility for recording from analog sources such as cassette or vinyl. It displays the audio waveform and allows you to scroll around, place markers for sections, measures and beats, and easily play or loop from any point.
- Loops and positions can be stored and recalled. There are many keyboard shortcuts and you can configure these as you like (in version 7). You can configure Transcribe! to respond to pedals of various types so as to keep your hands free : start and stop playback with your feet!
- There is extensive and readable help accessible from within the program.
- The "spectrum" feature displays the strength of the various pitches in any chord or note you select, in the form of a graph - a wavy line over a piano keyboard graphic. The height of the various peaks in the graph indicate the strength of the note above which the peak appears. This is not a magic bullet for analysing chords but it can be a very useful source of information.
- Transcribe! offers various audio processing effects (Slowdown, Pitch Change, EQ filtering etc) intended to help with transcribing. These effects all run in "real time" unless your machine is old & slow. This means there is no pre-processing or other waiting, the processing is performed on-the-fly while playing and you can instantly hear the effect of changes to EQ etc. For instance if you press the half-speed button while playing then playback simply continues, at half speed.
Mono/Karaoke
- This effect allows you to mix the two channels of a stereo recording together in various ways including phase-reverse, commonly known as "karaoke" as it sometimes has the effect of removing the vocal (if the vocal is panned dead-centre).
EQ
- A powerful EQ filter.
Tuning
- Adjustment to playback pitch, in cents (hundredths of a semitone) for fine tuning and also larger shifts of up to two octaves, which can for instance be useful in hearing low, murky bass parts by raising them by an octave or two.
Transposition
- Special handling for those of you who play a transposing instrument such as trumpet or saxophone.
Speed
- Speed variable from one twentieth to double speed.
- Click here for an MP3 file (373 KB) demonstrating the sound quality of slowdown-without-pitch-change. It contains 7 seconds of a guitar solo played quite fast, followed by the same at half speed. This is what you get when you press Transcribe!s half-speed button (version 7.20). I havent bothered to give lots of samples, since you can download Transcribe! for a free trial period and try it yourself.
Flyer
- Sometimes people ask me for a printed information sheet about Transcribe!. I dont distribute printed materials but here is a single-sided information sheet as a pdf (Adobe Acrobat) file which you are welcome to download and print out.
ccPublisher 2.2.1
ccPublisher is a tool that will help you tag your audio and video files with information about your license. more>>
You also have the option of publishing the licensed and tagged audio works on your own site.

UVC for Linux 5.1
Groupware and Collaboration Software Suite. more>> The UVC Collaboration Suite is software that contains all the functionality of a Groupware solution combined with the convenience of an instant messenger. UVC brings together teams of people and allows them to work together seamlessly. Take the leap from traditional desktop contact managers and start experiencing a new level of software freedom.
The UVC Advantage
- Setup group meetings with your colleagues without the need for emails
- Coordinate your calendar and tasks with your office assistant
- Work on any type of project with your team
- Take your data offline and synchronize when you go back online
- Leverage real-time collaboration, get more features with seamless integration compared to the competition
- Protect your wallet, no need for costly servers and software licenses
- Track resource allocations and time availability
- Share your mail messages, contacts and prospects
- Assign tasks to your colleagues and track status
- Get instant access to all your relevant information
- Retrieve data from anywhere you can access the Internet worldwide
- Have an audio and video chat with your friends<<less

Master Kick 1.4.1
Master Kick arises in glory of the best arcade version of table soccer seen till now! Its not just a game with stunning graphics of various playfields and players, weather visual effects, or live chee more>>
Once, there was a table-soccer, now we have Master Kick!
Master Kick arises in glory of the best arcade version of table soccer seen
till now! Its not just a game with stunning graphics of various playfields and
players, weather visual effects, or live cheering. Master kick gives you the full atmosphere of soccer match combined with foosball skill. Highly sophisticated AI plus numerous formations selection, playing in a league or quick match will not fail any soccer fan expectations. Great dynamic music and sound powered by MODULA Audio Engine and fullscreen support enlarge the overall game experience. One thing is for certain, Master Kick tried once, will become your favorite addiction!
System Requirements: Linux, x86 processor
<<lessExcelsior JET 5.0
Excelsior JET is a complete solution for acceleration, protection and deployment of your Java applications. more>>
Excelsior JET Optimizer converts your applications classes and jars into highly optimized Intel x86 code and creates a native executable for Microsoft Windows or Linux platform.
Excelsior JET Runtime is a complete Java Virtual Machine that works with both Java classes and the executables produced by the Optimizer. It implements the Java SE platform, versions 5.0 and 1.4.2.
Excelsior JET Installation Toolkit facilitates rapid creation of complete installation packages for your optimized Java applications. Installation of the JRE on end-user machines is not required.
Excelsior JET Optimizer and Runtime have passed the Java Compatibility Kit test suite and are certified Java Compatible on a number of platforms.
Main features:
- Transform your Java applications classes and jars into conventional binary executables (EXEs and DLLs on Windows, executables and shared objects on Linux) that run without the Sun JRE
- Optimize applications that use any part of J2SE 5.0 or 1.4.2 platform API YESYES
- Optimize applications that rely on the Endorsed Standards Override Mechanism
- Intergrate the resulting executables with C/C++/Deplhi via JNI and Invocation API
- Intergrate the resulting executables with C++/VB6/VBA via COM (Windows only)
- Optimize applications essentially relying on dynamic class loading
- Optimize JIT compilers cache with the AOT compiler
- Reorder code and data segments of the resulting executables for faster startup and memory use reduction
- Turn your Java applications into Windows services using the supplied API and tools
- Pack resources (images, audio, etc.) into the resulting executables
- Create application setups based on Excelsior Installer (Windows only) or a third-party setup authoring tool
- Create compact Excelsior Installer-based setups (Windows only)
- Make applications display a native splash screen instantly upon startup
- NEW! Generate trial executables
- NEW! Create arbitrary shortcuts with custom icons in Excelsior Installer-based setups (Windows only)
- NEW! Create file associations in Excelsior Installer-based setups (Windows only)
Flash Video Recorder 2.3 DEMO
Flash Video Recorder allows your website users to record Audio/video of themselves with their own camera. more>>
The application require Video Streaming server technology such as the Free open source RED5 flash server or any hosted Flash Media Server and Flash Communication Server. Note that the Video Streaming server can be hosted separately from your own webserver. We provide a free installation support for the application. It can be installed in your web page in a matter of minutes.

a2 flash slide show v2 Mac 2.0
Design and create easily all kind of perfect Flash slide-show and Photo-gallery more>> A2 Flash Slideshow is an affordable upgradable Flash suite, both powerful and easy to use. It is ideal for design and creating in minutes just as you like for your customer? websites a wide range of high-impact multimedia flash slideshow, flash photogallery, flash portfolio with pan and zoom camera effects, interactive controls menu and more. It features graphic libraries for: transitions, roll-over various animated effects on image and thumbs, preloader, navigation buttons, flash animated intro, flash animated backgrounds, flash animated opening and closing image, action scripts effects, zoom effects on thumbs strip and ready Flash templates. Add: images, texts, audio, click sound, animated backgrounds and more. Your clients will be absolutely jazzed by the flash slide show You will produce for their websites. Try now A2 Flash!<<less
A2 Flash slideshow v25 Mac 2.5
Design and create easily and professionally looking all kind of perfect Flash slide show or photo-gallery too. Your clients will be absolutely jazzed by the flash slide show You will produce for their more>>
A2 Flash Slideshow is an affordable upgradable Flash suite, both powerful and easy to use. It is ideal for design and creating in minutes just as you like for your customer?s websites a wide range of high-impact multimedia flash slideshow, flash photogallery, flash portfolio with pan and zoom camera effects, interactive controls menu and more. It features graphic libraries for: transitions, roll-over various animated effects on image and thumbs, preloader, navigation buttons, flash animated intro, flash animated backgrounds, flash animated opening and closing image, action scripts effects, zoom effects on thumbs strip and ready Flash templates. Add: images, texts, audio, click sound, animated backgrounds and more. Your clients will be absolutely jazzed by the flash slide show You will produce for their websites. Try now A2 Flash!
Requirements: Mac G3, Os X, Cpu 800 Mhz, Ram 256 Mb
<<lessOSS 4.0
OSS provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards under Linux. more>>
These drivers support digital audio, MIDI, synthesizers, and mixers found on sound cards. These sound drivers comply with the Open Sound System API specification. OSS provides a user-friendly GUI which makes the installation of sound drivers and configuration of sound cards very simple.
OSS project supports over 200 brand name sound cards, and provides automatic sound card detection, Plug-n-Play support, support for PCI audio soundcards, and support for full duplex audio.
OSS is now free for home/personal use and doesnt have any restrictions other than refreshing the software every 4months.
New and simplified licensing model announced - no more lowlevel driver options necessary. One license will allow you to run as many audio devices as you have.
OSS/3D Fidelity/3D Spatialization and Reverb feature added to Virtual Mixer PRO.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes select/poll on FreeBSD.
- Conexant HDAudio codec support has been added.
- There are fixes for AudigyLS. SCO OSR6 lockup issues have been fixed.
- Tarball installation is available for Linux.
- There are OSS Core Audio fixes for Poll/Select mode operations.
Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the next generation enterprise linux operating system. more>>
Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports a wide range hardware and software applications, and is the worlds leading enterprise-focused Linux environment.
The following section outlines a few of the major new features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4:
Linux 2.6 kernel infrastructure
Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 provides the most stable and robust commercial product based on the Linux communitys 2.6.9 kernel. Open source projects such as Fedora provided an environment for the Linux 2.6 kernel to mature significantly during 2004.
As a result, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 kernel offers numerous improvements over earlier kernels, including many enhanced algorithms and features:
- Generic logical CPU scheduler: Handles multi-core and hyperthreaded CPUs.
- Object-based Reverse Mapping VM: Improved performance in memory constrained systems.
- Read Copy Update: SMP algorithm optimization for operating system data structures.
- Multiple I/O schedulers: Selectable based on the application environment.
- Enhanced SMP & NUMA support: Improved performance and scalability for large servers.
- Network interrupt mitigation (NAPI): Improved performance for heavy network loads.
Improved storage and file system capabilities
Numerous enhancements have been incorporated into Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 that improve the scalability and performance of the data storage subsystems, including:
- Ext3 performance: Block Reservations and Hash Tree Directories improve the performance of read/write I/O and directory scanning operations.
- Ext3 scalability: Dynamic file system expansion and file system sizes up to 8TB are now supported.
- Logical Volume Management: A comprehensive update to the LVM provides new features such as read/write snapshots and transactional metadata updates, along with a flexible new management GUI. Mirroring and enhanced multipathing are scheduled for delivery by mid 2005.
- Scalability: Enhanced storage LUN management makes it possible to configure much larger storage subsystems.
- Automounting: The inclusion of AutoFSv4 provides sophisticated device access control, supporting features such as browsable mounts and replicated servers.
- Cost reduction: Support for Serial ATA disk storage provides increased performance, higher densities, and reduced cost per megabyte over traditional IDE devices.
New security capabilities
Provision of sophisticated security capabilities has been a specific development focus of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 release. New features:
- Mandatory Access Control: Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) provides a MAC infrastructure that complements the existing Discretionary Access Control security features provided by the standard Linux environment. In a MAC-based environment, application capabilities and privileges are set by predefined policies and enforced by the kernel. This prevents errant applications from compromising system security.
- Memory management enhancements: Several features, including Exec Shield and Position Independent Executables, combine to prevent applications from being exploited by attacks such as buffer overflows.
- Compile and runtime consistency checking: New buffer validation techniques in the GCC compiler and Glibc library greatly reduce the risk of faulty applications being compromised.
Improved desktop capabilities
Significant emphasis has been placed on providing a feature-rich, easy-to-use, desktop environment for all Red Hat Enterprise Linux family members (including Red Hat Desktop). A brief summary of new features:
- Personal productivity: Advanced user capabilities are provided by the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, the Firefox web browser and Evolution email client
- Plug-and-play device support: Easy handling of devices such as USB disks and digital cameras (as well as photo management applications such as gThumb)
- Multimedia: Applications for audio, video, and streaming content such as RhythmBox, HelixPlayer, Totem, and SoundJuicer
- User environment: GNOME 2.8 provides numerous enhancements for a more consistent graphical look and feel. Comprehensive management tools (e.g. printer and network management and VNC-based application session sharing) and utilities (e.g. Gaim instant messaging, and GIMP image processing) combine to provide a complete and highly functional user experience.
- Interoperability: Technologies that allow user login authentication with Microsoft Active Directory, NTLM authentication for web-based applications, Evolution mail client access to Windows Exchange Servers
- IIIMF: The Internet/Intranet Input Method framework provides the next-generation multilingual Unicode input method framework. It offers many features, such as full Unicode support and the ability to run multiple concurrent language engines.
Miscellaneous features
As a major new release, almost every aspect of Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been enhanced. Some of the more important improvements:
- Compatibility with prior releases: Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 includes compatibility libraries that enable most v.3 and v.2.1 applications to continue to run without modification.
- Languages: Focused on international standards, such as OpenI18N and GB18030, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has documentation and software available in 15 languages: English, Japanese, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Italian, French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Devnagari, Bangla, Punjabi, Tamil, Gujarati.
- Auditing: In an update planned for mid-2005, a new auditing facility will be available that provides an open, bidirectional socket interface that can be used by auditing applications. It provides comprehensive auditing capabilities for SELinux and standard Linux events.
- File serving: Provision of NFSv4 provides features such improved security, operation coalescing and integrated file locking, while Samba provides easy access to Microsoft Windows printers and file shares.
- Software development: The latest GCC 3.4 compiler toolchain, and a technology preview of the forthcoming GCC 4.0 toolchain, are provided. These offer standards-compliant C/C++ and Fortran 95 development environments.
- Advanced configuration and power interface: Support for the ACPI standard enables a wide range of power management capabilities (battery monitoring, automated power down, suspend), and provides a foundation for increasingly sophisticated features in the future.
- Extras: Optional software is provided on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras CD and Red Hat Network channel. This includes features such as additional desktop applications (e.g. Adobe Reader, Macromedia Flash), Java environments, and printroom-quality Agfa/Monotype fonts.
Main features:
Server features summary
- Databases - Leading open source databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Development - Environments for C, C++, Java, Fortran with Perl, Python, CVS and Emacs
- Engineering - Computational tools including blas, pvm, and lam
- File servers - FTP, NFS, and Samba (CIFS)
- Mail server - IMAP/POP servers with Cyrus, Sendmail, spamassassin
- Networking - Complete suite of network servers and firewall
- Printing - CUPS/lpr printing systems
- Security - Extensive features including SSL, IpSec, MAC/DAC
- Web server - Apache server with numerous mod/php plugins
Client features summary
- Document preparation - OpenOffice.org office suite 1
- Extensive Microsoft interoperability
- Laptop power management - APM/ACPI
- Mail - several clients including Evolution
- Multimedia support - applications for multiple audio/video formats
- Plug-and-play device support
- RDP terminal services
- Remote desktop sharing/collaboration
- User interface - GNOME-based with optional KDE
- Web browsing - Firefox
- Wireless support
- X Windows system