standalone trial software / shareware for linux

LM-X License Manager project is the strengthened solution for software license management.
With the multiple approaches to buying, selling and distributing products that are available in todays marketplace, software companies are provided with more challenges--and more opportunities. Making the most out of a potential customer base means having fine-grained control over how your software is licensed, and the ability to be sure that you and your customers see your licensing agreements in the same way.
Whether youre looking to provide feature- or time-limited demonstrations, staggered pricing options, controlled use environments, or any number of other licensing scenarios, LM-X has what you need. It lets you lock your application to a variety of criteria, meaning you can customize your application your precise licensing requirements, whatever they may be. For example, best-in-breed locking of licenses to hardware parameters means you can easily control the machines (and the number of machines) that can use your application, giving you a straightforward means of ensuring that you and your customers are in-sync when it comes to your licensing agreements.
LM-X is a powerful, straightforward solution to protecting your intellectual property, maximizing revenue and giving your customers what they need.
Protect your investment. Estimates as to the costs of unlicensed software vary, but experts agree that piracy, particularly in the workplace, represent a considerable problem for software companies. LM-X gives you precise control over the use of your software, ensuring compliance with your licensing policies--whatever they may be.
Strong protection - straightforward implementation. LM-X is the product of years of development by dedicated security experts who have the deep domain knowledge to maximize protection and avoid the pitfalls that companies often fall into when they attempt to manage copy protection on their own. But adding complexity for crackers doesnt mean adding complexity for your developers: LM-X has a straightforward API that lets you get up-and-running quickly to implement strong protection with a minimum of effort.
License your software the way you want to. LM-X is designed to provide a great deal of flexibility, letting you design licenses that suit you and your customers--rather than licenses that simply suit your license management solution. Whether you only need to issue demo versions of your software, or you need multiple levels of licensing that provide multiple levels of functionality, LM-X is the single tool for the job.
Free your distribution methods. Because LM-X handles your licensing for you, your distribution chain can be relaxed, meaning you can more easily distribute trial or limited-use versions of your application without the need to worry about unscrupulous use of your product. By moving towards a license-based approach to your product you can distribute code electronically or allow binary copying, safe in the knowledge that use is controlled by the licenses that you issue. And your licensing model can scale effectively with a minimum of effort on your part, since licenses can be created for individual machines or for multiple license servers operating for entire client sites.
Main features:
- Simple integration into your current development process
- Immediate access to simple and advanced models of licensing
- Support for standalone and networked licenses
- Easy-to-use end-user tools
- Licenses use strong public key cryptography to prevent creation of counterfeit licenses
- Hardware locking to multiple hardware parameters

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. The VNC project is remote control software which allows you to view and fully interact with one computer desktop (the "VNC server") using a simple program (the "VNC viewer") on another computer desktop anywhere on the Internet. The two computers dont even have to be the same type, so for example you can use VNC to view a Windows Vista desktop at the office on a Linux or Mac computer at home. For ultimate simplicity, there is even a Java viewer, so that any desktop can be controlled remotely from within a browser without having to install software.
VNC is in widespread active use by millions throughout industry, academia and privately. There are several versions to choose from, including a free version and some substantially enhanced commercial versions.
This package contains the following VNC modules:
- vncviewer - The VNC Viewer for X
- vncserver - The VNC Server for X
- vncconfig - Configuration tool for VNC Server.
- vncpasswd - VNC Authentication password tool for VNC Server.
- vnckeygen - Cryptographic key generator for VNC Server.
- vnclicense - License management tool for VNC Server.
- x0vncserver - Polling VNC Server for existing X sessions.
- Xvnc - X VNC Server, used internally by vncserver.
In addition to these standalone programs, on Linux platforms this distribution can also be used to turn a native XFree86 version 4 X server into a VNC server. This is done using a module loaded at run-time, which is normally installed to the /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions directory. The module can then be enabled like any other module by adding a SubSection "vnc" block to the Module section of XF86Config. The parameters listed in the Xvnc manual page can be set as options in XF86Config in the "vnc" sub-section of the Module section, e.g. Option "passwordFile" "/root/.vnc/passwd".
In order to run VNC servers you will need a reasonably recent version of the X window system installed. This come as standard with most unix machines. If you dont have it installed, see http://www.xfree86.org or http://www.x.org
VNC Viewer for Java is provided in-built to VNC Server, but newer viewer versions can be used if required by placing the files in a suitable directory, e.g. /usr/local/vnc/classes and setting VNC Servers httpdir parameter. By default, VNC Servers httpdir parameter will default to < inbuilt >.
The default settings used by VNC Server can be modified by editing the system-wide defaults file at /etc/vnc/config, or the users own overrides at %HOME/.vnc/config. This includes both VNC settings e.g. PasswordFile, and X server settings, e.g. geometry. Settings can also be overridden for a specific instance of vncserver only, by providing them on the command-line.
Installing from the tar file:
You should copy the programs to some directory which is in your PATH environment variable, such as /usr/local/bin. You can use the vncinstall script to do this for you:
% ./vncinstall /usr/local/bin
This will also attempt to install the manual pages in an appropriate directory. You can specify an alternative directory as a second argument to vncinstall:
% ./vncinstall /usr/local/bin /usr/local/man
It will also try to install the vnc.so XFree86 version 4 module if appropriate.
Version restrictions:
- A version of the Software is available for a limited trial period as set out in the Website. It will perform for only a limited period of time. THE LIMITED TRIAL SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR LIABILITY TO YOU WHATSOEVER.
- This software requires a license key

Storix System Backup Administrator provides both an intuitive graphical user interface and command line options for performing backups of a standalone system, or managing backups of all Linux and AIX systems on a network.
In addition to backing up data onto a network server, tape, or disk device, it can reinstall a complete system from scratch, clone or migrate systems, manage volumes and RAID devices, and restore data in any configuration you choose. It features easily accessible documentation.
Main features:
- Centrally manage backups of the entire network or a single system
- The most complete and flexible disaster recovery (bare-metal restore) available
- Backup Data Encryption for secure data protection
- MS Windows and Mac OS X Backup/Restore Functionality
- Information Lifecycle Management with full featured retention and overwrite policies
- Perform LVM snapshot backups of Oracle, DB2, MySQL Databases
- Network Boot for Linux on Intel and IBM pSeries systems
- Powerful backup automation and tape management features
- Restore directories, single files, or an entire system locally or remotely
- Multiple Exclude List Support for individual backup exclude lists
- Enhanced support for Reiserfs file systems
- Multi-tape, multi-device, tape library and autoloader support
- Network, Workstation and Desktop versions available
Support for the latest:
- LVM Features
- Software RAID Devices
- Multiple Bootloaders
- All Major Filesystems
Version restrictions:
- 30-day evaluation