wine 2005 trial software / shareware for linux

Libranet 3.0 has been a long time coming, and highly anticipated by its devoted customers.
Due to the extended period of time since their last release in 2003, I was beginning to wonder if they were falling into the catch up mode of development... the endless loop you can enter when youre low on development staff who are working hard to try to keep up with the rest of the distributions out there... only moving fast enough to be one step behind.
Since there was such a large gap in time between the 2.8.1 release and the current 3.0 release, will Libranet stack up? Does it have what it takes to win the hearts of not only the Debian crowd, but the Open Source community in general? Well, my friends, were here to find out.
Main features:
- Linux kernel 2.6.11.4
- KDE 3.3.2, GNOME 2.8.3, and Xfce4
- Gcc 3.3
- X.org 6.8.2
- Evolution 2.0.3
- OpenOffice.org 1.1.3
- Gaim 1.1.4
- Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2/Thunderbird 1.0.2
- K3b 0.11.20
Libranet 3.0 comes in the form of 5 CDs or a single DVD which are available in the form of downloadable ISO images or as physical media shipped via snail mail. At the time of this review, ISO images are the only option. CD media will be shipping on May 31st, 2005 according to the Libranet site and are currently available for pre-order.
Although the major desktop environments included with this release are, shall we say, a bit outdated, theyre well suited for the task at hand: providing a productive desktop experience. There are more up-to-date Debian offerings out there, but theres nothing wrong with working on the desktops provided by Libranet.
In the grand scheme of things, they really arent that old and if you need to bring them up to speed with the current versions, a little creativity with the apt sources list will get you there in a hurry.
Unlike other more heavily modified Debian-based distros such as Xandros and Linspire, adding additional Debian mirrors will not cause irreversible damage to your system.

VisualRoute helps determine if a connectivity problem is due to an ISP, the Internet, or the web site you -- or your customers -- are trying to reach, and pinpoints the network where a problem occurs.
VisualRoute 2005 is available in five specialized editions, enabling on-demand connectivity analysis from a single computer, a remote server, a remote customer desktop or multiple points on a global network.
All editions include integrated traceroute, ping tests, reverse DNS and Whois lookups, and display the actual route of connections and IP locations on a global map.
Main features:
- Analyzes Internet/Intranet connectivity
- Locates the source of poor network response time (latency)
- Answers the question: Why can?t I reach a website?
- Locates poor connection quality (packet loss) and identifies the ISP responsible
- Answers the question: Is the slow performance due to my ISP or a problem on the Internet?
Enhancements:
- This update adds JavaScript support for the Server NOC and Server Pro editions.

Navicat is a powerful MySQL database administration and development tool that are not only sophisticated enough for professional developers, but also easy to learn for new users.
With a nice GUI, Navicat lets you quickly and easily create, organize, access and share information in a secure and easy way.
Navicat supports multiple connections. You can use Navicat to manage your local or remote MySQL server. Your remote MySQL server can be running on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X or Windows platform.
Since early 2004, the monthly download has exceeded 220,000 records; Navicat is recognized as the Most Popular MySQL front end GUI. It is available in three OS platforms - Window, Mac OS X and Linux.
Navicat supports MySQL users from AOL, BT, Vodafone, Ford Motor, The Gillette Company, Sony Music, Intel ,Boeing, Kodak, FedEx, Hitachi, Sharp, KPMG Advisory, Ericsson, Siemens AG, Yahoo!, Imation, Lexmark, Cisco Systems, RSA Security, Avis (Europe), U.S. Department of Energy, Harris Bank, Central Carolina Bank, Harvard University, Oxford University, NASA Space Flight Center, MIT, Stanford University, Columbia University and many more.
Main features:
- Support Multiple Connections for local or remote MySQL servers
- Browse your databases
- Create and delete databases, tables, indexes and users
- Modify your data
- Create or Run SQL queries
- Manage user privileges [security configuration]
- Backup/Restore your database
- Data Transfer - Support transfer databases from one MySQL server to another MySQL server (1. Local to Remote , 2. Remote to Remote, 3. Remote to Local)
- Foreign Keys - Support to configure Foreign Keys
- Unicode Support
- Stored Procedure
- Batch Job and Scheduling
- Import/Export data ( It supports up to 18* most popular formats including MS Access, MS Excel, XML, PDF and TXT. )
Version restrictions:
- This is a 30-day free trial and is FULLY functional.
Enhancements:
Navicat 2005 includes below new features.
- SSL Connection
- Filter Wizard
- Import Wizard
- Export Wizard
- Visual Query Builder
- With helpful wizards, it makes importing/ exporting data to and from MySQL become much more easier and efficient. The Import/ Export Wizards support these formats: MS Word, HTML, PDF, TXT, CSV, DBF, XML, etc.
- A Visual Query Builder is added for creating sql queries visually and SSL connection is introduced for encrypting your important information.
- The database management tool is a MySQL front end provides extensive functionality for managing and developing MySQL database. This tool features an intuitive interface, enabling users to manage multiple databases on local or remote MySQL server easily. Other major features include data backup/ restore, database transfer from server to server, and schedule creation for Backup, Import / Export, Data Transfer, and Saved Queries.
- It also includes a full featured graphical manager for setting the users and access privileges.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4, released in February 2005, provides significant technology enhancements over the v.3 release. Areas of specific development include improvements in security capabilities, increased server performance and scalability, and enhanced desktop capabilities?all while ensuring a high level of compatibility with prior releases.
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

EMS Data Export for PostgreSQL is a cross-platform (Windows and Linux) program to export your data quickly from PostgreSQL databases to any of 15 available formats, including MS Access (Windows version only), MS Excel, MS Word (RTF), HTML, XML, PDF, TXT, CSV, DBF and others.
EMS Data Export 2005 for PostgreSQL includes a wizard, which allows you to set export options for each table visually (destination filename, exported fields, data formats, and many others) and a command line utility to export data from tables and queries in one-touch.
Main features:
- Conceptually new user-friendly wizard interface
- Exporting to 15 most popular formats: MS Excel, MS Access, MS Word, RTF, HTML, PDF, XML, TXT, DBF, CSV, SYLK, DIF, LaTeX, SQL and Clipboard
- Exporting data from several objects from different databases on one host
- Exporting data from tables, views and queries
- Selecting fields to export and changing their order
- Adjustable parameters for each exported table and specific parameters for export to MS Excel, MS Word / RTF, MS Access, HTML, TXT, CSV, PDF, XML and SQL
- Saving all export parameters set on current wizard session
- Command-line utility to export data using the configuration file
- Powerful visual options module
- Windows and Linux versions available

Dont give away sensitive information, valuable corporate trade secrets, business plans, personal files and letters, or traces of Internet or newsgroup activity with the old computers that you or your company resells, donates, reassigns to different departments or removes from operation.
Deleting all the files, formatting the hard disk or using the FDISK utility is not enough to stop people that will have access to the computer in the future to restore information using basic recovery programs.
East-Tec DiskSanitizer however removes all traces of data and software from the computer hard disk, by overwriting and destroying beyond recovery every sector and every bit of information.
Data is removed according with U.S. Department of Defense standards or custom user security levels. East-Tec DiskSanitizer can be operated from a floppy disk to sanitize any drive from the computer, regardless of the file system or the operating system.
After selecting the drives to sanitize and the security level, the product is ready to perform its job.
Powerful verification capabilities and full user control during the sanitizing process can provide the utmost assurance that all data has been completely removed beyond recovery. At the end of the sanitize process the product can generate a proof of correct data disposal by printing a sanitizing report or by saving it for permanent records
Main features:
- The data on drives formatted with East-Tec Sanitizer 2005 is destroyed beyond recovery using advanced wiping techniques that can stop both software and hardware tools from recovering any data.
- Meets and exceeds the U.S. Department of Defense standards for the permanent erasure of digital information.
- Works with both IDE/ATA and SCSI disk drives
- The ability to sanitize any floppy or hard disks connected to the computer, or any independent partition from a hard drive without affecting other partitions, regardless of the file system and the operating system that resides on each drive (works with FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Unix, etc.).
- Powerful verification capabilities that give the user the utmost assurance that all data has been completely removed from disk.
- Very fast wiping speeds by using direct memory access (DMA/UDMA mode) for IDE/ATA drives (where support for this mode is available)
- The ability of wiping data on several machines simultaneously by installing Sanitizer on bootable floppy, CD or DVD disks.
- The ability to maintain detailed logs of all sanitizing operations, that can be printed and saved for permanent records.
- Overall progress, average speed and estimated time indicators are available.
- Mouse support.
Advanced Features:
- Powerful command-line parameter options that allow advanced users to run the program from the command prompt, with no user interface (if desired) and create different wiping scenarios.
- Sanitizing BIOS Free feature that allows users to address the full hard disk capacity even if, on some old machines, BIOS does not support large hard drives.
- The ability to develop and use your own data-destroying algorithms, that perfectly suits your security needs.
- The ability to generate random data streams using ISAAC Pseudo-Random Number Generating algorithm.

Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver provides ODBC access to SQL Server for ODBC-enabled applications running on Linux and major Unix platforms.
Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports SQL Server 7, SQL Server 2000, and SQL Server 2005, and is fully compatible with the unixODBC Driver Manager, which is included in the standard product distribution.
ODBC Access to SQL Server from Unix and Linux
The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver connects Unix and Linux applications to SQL Server databases. Download our SQL Server ODBC driver to connect Perl, PHP, Python, C and any other ODBC-enabled language, interface or application to SQL Server.
Easysoft keep the ODBC-SQL Server Driver current with the latest version of SQL Server.
SQL Server 2005 support:
- MARS The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS), enabling your Linux/Unix applications to have more than one pending request per connection, and, in particular to have more than one default result set open per connection. The MARS feature removes the restriction present in earlier versions of SQL Server in which an open default result set blocks the driver from sending requests to the server until the entire result set is consumed.
- XML data type The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports the XML data type, a SQL Server 2005 data type that allows ODBC applications to use an XQuery to query the contents of an XML document stored in SQL Server, check that the document conforms to an XML schema, and even modify the contents of the XML document in place.
- Large-value data types The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports the varchar(max), nvarchar(max) and varbinary(max) data types. These data types enable SQL Server to store and retrieve large character, Unicode and binary data more efficiently.
- Snapshot transaction isolation levels The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports the snapshot isolation level. When reading rows modified by another transaction, snapshot isolation enables a user to retrieve the version of the row that existed when the transaction started.
- SQL Server Express The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports SQL Server Express, the free, easy-to-use, lightweight version of SQL Server 2005.
In addition, the Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver provides these features:
- Easy access to SQL Server data The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver installation leads you through the process of creating your first data source and tests the new data source by retrieving some remote SQL Server data.
- Detect available SQL Server instances The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver includes a diagnostic program that uses the SQL Server Browser or SQL Server 2000 listener service to detect and report the SQL Server instances that are visible from your client machine. You can therefore verify that your SQL Server instance is available before configuring your ODBC data source.
- Access SQL Server from Perl, PHP, Python and C Use the Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver with the Perl DBI and DBD::ODBC modules, PHP, PEAR DB, the Python mxODBC interface, C and any other ODBC-enabled programming language or interface.
- Connect Linux/Unix Applications to SQL Server Access SQL Server databases from Apache, ApplixWare, Informatica, OpenOffice.org, StarOffice and any other ODBC-enabled application.
- 32-bit and 64-bit SQL Server driver Both 32bit and 64bit versions of the Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver are available, where appropriate.
- ODBC 3.51 support The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver complies with the ODBC 3.51 specification. The ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports all ODBC 3.51 API calls. The driver also supports applications written using earlier versions of ODBC.
- Unicode support The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver is a Unicode ODBC driver that provides both Unicode and ANSI access to SQL Server databases.
- unixODBC support The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver is compatible with and includes unixODBC, the open source ODBC Driver Manager for non-Windows platforms. The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver installation can automatically install the driver into unixODBC, making the ODBC-SQL Server Driver immediately available to your ODBC applications. The unixODBC project is currently led by Easysoft developer Nick Gorham and we have many years of experience in supporting and testing our drivers with unixODBC.
- Thread-safety The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver is thread-safe and therefore safe to use behind multi-threaded applications.
- ODBC diagnostic logging The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver lets you generate diagnostic trace logs that help you troubleshoot problems by monitoring the ODBC calls your application makes.