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Linux Equivalents to Windows Software
The Linux Equivalents to Windows Software series now contains 228 entries, listing the finest Linux software available.

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  • gqviewarc
    gqviewarc is an LD_PRELOAD module that makes GQview treat archives (ZIP, RAR, and maybe more) as directories. It may also be applicable in other domains where transparent stream read access to archived files is needed. new
  • numactl
    numactl implements simple NUMA policy support. A NUMA policy allows you to tune programs by controlling the placement of memory in NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) systems. new
  • ABACUS 4
    The ABACUS 4 process control system is a block based software system for the real time control of industrial and other continuous and batch processes.
  • acarsd
    acarsd is an ACARS decoder for a LINUX or Windows PC which attempts to decode ACARS transmissions in real-time using up to three Soundcards. acarsd is also a realtime ACARS Server / ACARS webserver, for the worldwide spotter and ACARS community, if you wish.
  • Accerciser Accessibility Browser
    Accerciser is an interactive Python accessibility explorer for the GNOME desktop. It uses AT-SPI to inspect and control widgets, allowing you to check if an application is providing correct information to assistive technologies and automated test frameworks.
  • ACFTools
    a utility for manipulating X-Plane flight simulator aircraft and weapon models without using its Plane Maker. It extends Plane-Maker and has ability to export aircrafts to AutoCAD for example
  • ACPI wakeup tool
    The ACPI wakeup tool is a little commandline application that allows your linux computer to wakeup from soft-off (S5) at a predetermined time.
  • active acoustic vibration control
    active acoustic vibration control is a set of basic tools for monitoring and modulating audio noise. The tools aim toward a set of codes and algorithms for monitoring noise signal and modulation and reducing them using active noise control priciples.
  • ActiveBPEL
    a robust runtime environment capable of executing process definitions created according to the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS, or just BPEL) 1.1 specifications
  • Advanced Website Creator
    Advanced Website Creator is a Web development environment. Created websites use an MVC framework written in PHP 5 and a simple database abstraction layer. At present the database layer supports MySQL and PostgreSQL as backends. All PHP classes are auto-loaded, so there is no need to include() or require() files manually.
  • Affix Frontend Environment
    developed to make the use of the Bluetooth protocol stack easier. Affix comes with a set of command-line utilities that provide the functionality an end-user needs
  • AFOS
    AFOS is a set of tools for formal and stochastic analysis of texts. Currently, it is able to analyze Serbian phonological attributes as well as to make some stochastic, language independent conclusions.
  • Ajisai
    Ajisai is a SSL/TLS implementation written entirely from scratch in C++. It uses Botan for performing the cryptography and X.509 handling.
  • AKFAvatar
    AKFAvatar is software where an image of an avatar appears on the screen and tells things written in a balloon.
  • ambergris
    The goal of ambergris is to provide a simple Ruby solution to two-way sync appointments and contacts between Evolution and Kolab2 for offline work.
  • Analyze ECGs
    Analyze ECGs is a graphical data analysis tool for use with RTLab. This program is useful for opening the .nds file format produced by RTLab's data acquisition program, DAQSystem.
  • Animal Shelter Manager
    a free computer package, covered by the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. It is designed to take most (if not all) of the paperwork away from running an animal shelter/sanctuary. The system can also be used to manage a veterinary surgery or clinic
  • Animenu
    Animenu is an onscreen-menu controlled by Lirc.
  • Arg_parser
    Arg_parser is an argument parser that follows POSIX and GNU conventions for command line arguments. It is implemented as a C++ class, and is simpler, easier to use, and safer that `getopt_long'.
  • Arguvision
    ARGUVISION is an enterprise class video surveillance system. ARGUVISION is based on a distributed Linux or Unix cluster architecture, with up to 1000 cameras per single cluster with aggregation capability and instant access to recorded or live video.
  • Armangil's vodcatcher
    Armangil's vodcatcher is a vodcast (or videoblog) client for the command line. It provides several download strategies (new shows only, back-catalog allowed, etc), supports BitTorrent, offers cache management, and generates playlists for video player applications. It is written in Ruby.
  • arrayprobe
    Arrayprobe is a commandline utility that reports the status of a HP (compaq) arraycontroller. This version only supports the newer controllers that use the cciss driver. It works in two modes. The default mode reports the status in a single line and can be used as a nagios check.
  • Arrowmatcher
    a tool for crossbow archers that calculates the speed and kinetic energy of an arrow
  • AScopy
    AScopy is a site maintenance utility. Its main purpose is to be portable and usable across any platform that has a working Bash shell and SSH.
  • Asset Discovery
    (commercial) integrates nmap with the Remedy Action Request System (ARS). The tool allows you to use nmap to survey your network and push the results into the ARS. It will work on Windows, Linux, Solaris and AIX
  • AstroCam
    AstroCam is a C-based stepengine control interface for Linux and BSD systems including a PHP webinterface.
  • Atlas for FlightGear
    Atlas aims to provide high quality maps of the world for use in FlightGear, an open source flight simulator.
  • atmelprog
    atmelprog is an Atmel AT89Cx051 microcontroller programmer (device schematics included). It allows writing and erasing flash, as well as verification of data written.
  • AuctionSieve
    (commercial) helps you rapidly filter through the auctions in ebay searches or categories
  • Autodist
    The Autodist is a source distribution management system that allows powerful mechanisms to define what is included in and excluded from a distribution, and what license the distribution is released under. It is also used to create the actual distribution source packages. Autodist allows distribution management in file, directory and file content level. Autodist is especially targeted for large software projects, and projects where multiple distributions are created from one source tree.
  • AutoSSCEP
    an automatic x509 certificate enroller based on SCEP (Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol). It provides VPN users an easy maintenance of their certificates
  • AutoZen
    AutoZen is a software 'brain machine' for Linux. It generates sounds that are meant to cause the brain to temporarily shift to a different dominant frequency and cause the user to experience an altered state of consciousness.
  • AVRsimu
    AVRsimu is a simulator for Atmel AVR microcontrollers. It has a command line interface, graphical interfaces may follow. AVRsimu aims to be small and portable.
  • bag
    used to buffer data. It was created as a quick hack to make DAT drive work faster when backing up over a network
  • Banjo
    Banjo is a non-gui javabean that provides the consumer application with a list of objects that encapsulate the details of each of the ten latest applications posted on freshmeat.
  • Barcode
    a small implementation of a barcode rendering class using the PHP language and GD graphics library
  • Barkix
    a Barcode generator for PCL printers without the need for font cartridges
  • Basilic
    a bibliography server for research laboratories. It automates and facilitates the diffusion of research publications over the internet, automatically generating web pages from a publication database
  • bdec
    bdec allows you to write specifications for existing binary formats in a flexible XML-based syntax and have decoders automatically generated for you. It is written in Python, and supports decoding to XML or Python objects.
  • BearTKat
    a scanner control application specifically designed to control the Uniden BC250D series of handheld TrunkTracking scanners. Other radios may work if they use the same control protocol, but modification may be required
  • BEprommer
    BEprommer is an (e)eprom programming software for Linux. It can be used with Batronix hardware.
  • BidWatcher
    a free auction tool for eBay users, available for Windows 95/98/NT and Linux
  • Bind9 SNMP Subagent
    The Bind9 SNMP Subagent provides indexed BIND 9 statistics via SNMP output. Data, query, and graph templates are provided for Cacti.
  • biosdevname
    biosdevname in its simplest form takes a kernel device name as an argument, and returns the BIOS-given name it "should" be.
  • BitPim
    BitPim is a program that allows you to view and manipulate data on many CDMA phones from LG, Samsung, Sanyo and other manufacturers.
  • blif2vhdl
    Bblif2vhdl is a BLIF to VHDL converter (51K compressed tar, with SunOS, Solaris, and Linux binaries. Source code (C++) included).
  • bluexmms
    allows remote control of XMMS using a bluetooth-enabled Ericsson mobile phone, assuming you also have a bluetooth-capable laptop/computer
  • blumrand
    blumrand is a very good random number generator.
  • BOINC
    The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources.
  • bprom
    bprom is a console application used to read or write EPROMs or EEPROMs with the µ-prom 2001 programmer by the German brand Dr. Böhm GmbH connected with a null modem cable to your Linux box.
  • Bright Noise
    a terminal wrapper that continuously modifies the palette and screen font while running. It's fairly usable in command line, although it doesn't always notice output not ending in a newline
  • Broccoli18
    Broccoli18 is a suite of PIC18F programming tools. This software will program a Microchip PIC18F-series microcontroller from your parallel port with a minimum of external circuitry. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
  • BundleMan
    BundleMan manages the releases of an application built on versioned products under Subversion. An application is seen as a product suite defined using the Subversion svn:externals property. An application is a bundle of products. Products are versioned pieces of software. Releasing an application is about taking care of tagging the source repository, managing the version of each products, managing CHANGELOGs, creating a source package archive, and giving ways to maintain a release without blocking the trunk development.
  • ByteName
    For each byte in the input, ByteName prints a line consisting of the byte offset, the hex value of the byte, the octal value of the byte, and its ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) name.
  • Cack
    constructs sentences using random words, but based on English language rules; using nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in the correct context, it will generate 'sensible' gibberish
  • cafix
    lets you use your casio calculator interface under linux
  • CalcChecksum
    CalcChecksum is a tool for calculating MD5, MD4, CRC32, SHA1 (SHA160), SHA256, RIPE-MD-160, TIGER, HAVAL (128, 160, 192, 224, 256 with 3, 4 or 5 passes) on files, text-strings or hash-lists generated by md5sum or sha1sum. CalcChecksum is a KDE/QT 3.1 application.
  • Calodox Demoniac
    a tool for exploring and animating graphics effects. Hopefully, it will help to produce demos
  • CAN Abstraction Layer
    provides a single interface for programs to use different CAN drivers. It consists of a CANAL daemon that handles client and driver communication, a canalLogger that logs messages in a window, and a simple diagnostic application. C++ clases and DLL/DL interfaces are provided
  • CANopen SlaveLib
    an implementation of the CANopen protocol for CAN bus devices. It makes it very easy to create CANopen slave devices under Linux and on Microchip's PIC microcontrollers
  • CCard
    a program that may be used to validate credit card numbers
  • CDS Invenio
    CDS Invenio (formerly CDSware) is a suite of applications that provides the framework and tools for building and managing an autonomous digital library server. It complies with the Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting protocol (OAI-PMH) and uses MARC 21 as its underlying bibliographic standard. Its flexibility and performance make it a comprehensive solution for the management of document repositories of moderate to large size.
  • CerbeRun
    cerbeRun is a software runner. The applications are stored inside a .tar (version 0.3 will use the ISO9660 format) file renamed with the extension .run. cerbeRun's format allows you to switch between different architectures using an .xml file, in which are specified different rules for different archictures. This is all done in user space without root access.
  • checksums.pl
    checksums.pl validate MD5 or SHA1 sums against a text file.
  • chemical-mime-data
    The chemical-mime-data package is a collection of data files to add support for various chemical MIME types on Linux/Unix desktops, such as KDE and GNOME.
  • chinesepython
    chinesepython is a translation of Python scripting language itself into Chinese.
  • Chronojump
    ChronoJump is a complete multiplatform system for measurement, management and statistics of the jump events. Chronojump uses a contact platform suitable for two events (in-platform, out-platform), and also a chronometer printed circuit designed ad-hoc in order to obtain precise and trustworthy measurements.
  • Cimbiote
    Cimbiote allows writing and running CIM providers written in Python. It is intended to make CIM development more accessible to developers. A good analogy is that Cimbiote is to CIM as mod_python is to Apache. Plugins are distributed as separate RPMs. Incoming CIM requests are routed through Cimbiote to the appropriate plugins and back into Cimbiote, allowing CIM plugins to be written without any C or C++ code, and, more importantly, without vast knowledge of CIM. Cimbiote plugins register MOF files like any other CIM provider, and are fully accessible over standard CIM tools like wbemxec and wbemcli.
  • Clash
    a tool for making bootable Compact fLASH systems. The tool includes: scripts for making the CF image instructions for writing the image and making it bootable essential root fs
  • Closebracket
    Closebracket lets you define multiple shell actions in a single command to speed up the typing of the most repetitive shell commands. It includes ']' and '][' commands, which are located near the "Enter" key and are easy to type quickly.
  • color wrapper
    a non-intrusive real-time ANSI color wrapper for common unix-based commands on GNU/linux
  • Computational Linguistics Toolset
    The Computational Linguistics Toolset is a set of tools for computational linguistics. It contains re-usable code for cleaning, splitting, refining, and taking samples from corpora (ICE, Penn, and a native one), for tagging them using the TnT-tagger, for doing permutation statistics on N-grams (useful for finding statistically significant syntactical differences between any two sets of tagged texts), and various examination-tools. The tools themselves are well documented.
  • ComputeMode
    ComputeMode is a product that allows an organization HPC grid to be extended through aggregation of unused computing resources. For instance, ComputeMode allows a virtual cluster to be built using an organization's employees' PCs while they are not being used. Practically, most PCs in large companies are idle at night, on weekends, and during employee vacations, training periods, or business trips. ComputeMode allows you to take advantage of these available resources.
  • ConfigObj
    ConfigObj is a simple but powerful config file reader and writer: an ini file round tripper. Its main feature is that it is very easy to use, with a straightforward programmer's interface and a simple syntax for config files.
  • core restart
    A user-level process checkpointing and restarting system for processes in Linux. It differs from some existing implementations in that it does not require the executables to be linked with a library, so processes can be checkpointed without being changed.
  • cowsay
    a text filter. Send some text into it, and you get a cow saying your text
  • CPAN+changelog
    CPAN+changelog.pl is a wrapper script for the CPAN Perl module. It adds ChangeLog and BuildLog functionality.
  • CrazyBeans
    allows to read modify or create model files form Rational Rose. This can be used to map class diagrams to source files and vice versa
  • CRM-CTT
    for use in a commercial or private environment to register 'entities'. To an entity one can attach files, put alerts on it, prioritize it, etcetera. The tool is multi-lingual (currently available in English, Spanish, French, German, Brasilian Portuguees and Dutch) and is fully customizable
  • Cryptoslam
    a curses-based tool for creating and solving the simple pencil-and-paper cryptograms found in newspapers and puzzle magazines. It is a tool that aids in analyzing, examining, and trying possible decodings of simple substitution cyphers
  • cursel
    an interpreter for building character graphical user interfaces
  • cutview
    a history mechanism for cut-n-paste operations. Also converts transparently between selections and cutbuffer0
  • Cycling
    Cycling is a small software that helps you in managing your training. It is designed for cyclists whether they do competition or not. With cycling you can define circuits and save informations about your training. Informations include length, average speed, duration, weather and the circuit.
  • Cypher
    Cypher generates the .rdf (RDF graph) and .serql (SeRQL query) representation of a plain language input. With robust definition languages, its grammar and lexicon can quickly and easily be extended to process highly complex sentences and phrases of any natural language, and can cover any vocabulary. Programmers can build next generation semantic Web applications that harness natural language.
  • D Parser
    D Parser is a scannerless GLR parser generator based on the Tomita algorithm. It is self-hosted and very easy to use. Grammars are written in a natural style of EBNF and regular expressions and support both speculative and final actions.
  • D-BUS
    D-BUS is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. D-BUS supplies both a system daemon (for events such as "new hardware device added" or "printer queue changed") and a per-user-login-session daemon (for general IPC needs among user applications). Also, the message bus is built on top of a general one-to-one message passing framework, which can be used by any two apps to communicate directly.
  • daemon
    turns other process into daemons
  • Darkbot
    a UNIX/WIN32 help robot. It has a parser that enables it to match text using regular IRC wildcards, for almost human-like responses
  • Dasher
    an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used
  • DB Visual Architect for JDeveloper
    DB Visual Architect (DB-VA) is a single, easy-to-use object-relational mapping (ORM) environment which acts as a bridge between object model, data model and relational model. It helps developers to build quality database applications faster, better and cheaper!
  • dbuffer
    a simple program that mimicks the command line interface of the buffer program distributed with e.g. SuSE Linux, but buffers data in a file on disk
  • debian-updates
    a simple Perl script which is designed to report upon packages on your system which are featured in Debian Security Alerts
  • DeCurs
    DeCurs is a GTK-based editor for XFree86 mouse cursor fonts. It includes a new set of less ugly cursors for XFree86, contained in a one font-file.
  • DELORES
    a forward-chaining reasoning engine for defeasible logic, a less expressive but more efficient nonmonotonic logic. In contrast with most other nonmonotonic logics, defeasible logic has linear complexity, allowing DELORES to execute large theories very quickly
  • Device::WS2500PC
    allows you to access the interface of the WS2500PC device, produced by the german company ELV. This device receives and stores data sent by various sensors (temperature, pressure, rain, etc.). With the help of this package you can easily access the buffer via the serial interface and read all available data
  • DHWPageViewer
    The DHWPageViewer is a desktop application that allows users to view the content recorded by their DigiMemo device. The DigiMemo is a stand-alone device that captures and stores pen input. The device is remarkable in that it uses normal paper. The device uses a special pen and tablet to record the strokes, and creates a data file.
  • DigiTemp
    DigiTemp is a simple to use program for reading values from 1-wire devices. Its main use is for reading temperature sensors, but it also reads counters, and understands the 1-wire hubs with devices on different branches of the network.
  • DIMVisual
    DIMVisual stands for Data Integrated Model for Visualization. It is also an implementation to integrate information from different sources such as MPI traces and Ganglia metrics. The integrated information can be analysed in the visualization tool Paje.
  • Dirlister
    provides an alternative to the standard Apache directory listings. It creates Web pages that are displayed when looking at folders without index files
  • Distributed Process Management System
    attempts to build a Distributed Process Management System. It can serve as an educational tool or a simulation-and-evaluation platform for various process scheduling and resource allocation algorithms
  • Distributed URL Classification Tool
    a distributed tool for sharing and classification of URL's and small files. It features an embedded MySQL database for data storage, and a small web server for presentation and handling
  • Dive
    The Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment (DIVE) is an internet-based multi-user VR system where participants navigate in 3D space and see, meet and interact with other users and applications. The DIVE software is a research prototype covered by licenses. Binaries for non-commercial use, however, are freely available for a number of platforms. The first DIVE version appeared in 1991. DIVE supports the development of virtual environments, user interfaces and applications based on shared 3D synthetic environments. DIVE is especially tuned to multi-user applications, where several networked participants interact over a network.
  • Divmod Epsilon
    Epsilon is a small utility package. Its dependencies make it inappropriate for inclusion in Twisted, but it performs functions that are generic enough to be used in projects that don't want to share the large footprint of Divmod's other projects. Currently, it includes a powerful date/time formatting and import/export class for exchanging date and time information between all Python's various ways to interpret objects as times or time deltas. It also includes some tools for managing concurrent asynchronous processes within Twisted.
  • Divmod Vertex
    Divmod Vertex is an implementation of Q2Q, a protocol for opening authenticated connections, even through NAT. It allows a user to reliably demonstrate their identity (for distributed authentication) and receive real-time data directly from other users, and provides a mechanism for a user to decide whether they want to expose their IP address to a third party before accepting a peer-to-peer connection.
  • djmount
    djmount is a UPnP AV client. It mounts as a Linux filesystem the media content of compatible UPnP AV devices. Djmount discovers automatically all UPnP AV Media Servers on the network, and make the content available in a directory tree.
  • dlkern
    downloads the current stable/beta/prepatch Linux kernel and its signature, and verifies the signature via GnuPG.pm
  • DM CryptFS
    DM CryptFS provides helper tools for setting up swap partitions and filesystems using the device mapper crypt target of the Linux kernel 2.6.4 and later.
  • dmidecode
    a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format
  • Doli
    a portable system to index and search documentation. The system consists of an indexer, and a Tcl-based Web server which provides the search interface
  • DOMjudge
    DOMjudge is an automated judgement system to run programming contests. It provides a mechanism to submit problem solutions and interfaces for teams, the jury, and the general public. It is lightweight, and depends on standard software to do its task. It has a Web interface for portability and simplicity. It is scalable, so distributed judging is easy. There is a modular system for plugging in languages and compilers. It features rejudging, clarifications, and detailed submission/judging info.
  • dprofpp_grapher
    dprofpp_grapher generates a graphic representation of Perl profile data.
  • Dream Print Tracking System
    a distribution tracking system that helps publishers by providing ways of monitoring distribution, ensuring that publications get out to readers in the best possible way, and optimizing the number of returned copies in an edition
  • DREAM Tool
    Distributed Real-time Embedded Analysis Method (DREAM) is a tool and method for optimizing multiple QoS properties of distributed real-time embedded (DRE) systems which focuses on the practical application of formal verification and timing analysis to real-time middleware.
  • Driverse
    Driverse is a program which should provide a secure environment to test various kinds of competition programs. It supports normal files or sockets for input and output.
  • dsflasher
    dsflasher is a utility to flash Dallas (Maxim) DS89C450 microcontrollers using a ROM loader.
  • dttool
    a program for reading and writing cards with the Digitech USB card programme
  • DUD
    DUD is a collection of scripts for managing wget downloads over a dial-up connection.
  • DwWorkflow
    DwWorkflow is a datawarehouse process workflow server and generator of datawarehouse mappings. It allows the user to define dependencies between tables or files and processes and it runs processes in parallel according to these metadata. It can run with or without an SQL database server. A process can be any program, not just a database statement.
  • DynChap
    provides an additional pseudo hardware token based authentication layer for virtual private networks
  • dzen
    dzen is a scriptable notification, messaging, and launching application. It provides user control through a flexible event/action mechanism.
  • Eagle Mode
    Eagle Mode is an advanced solution for a zoomable user interface. It has a professional file manager, many file viewers and players, a chess game, a 3D mines game, a multi-function clock and some fractal fun, all integrated in a virtual cosmos.
  • edival
    edival is a simple EDI file parser and validator. Current functionality is limited to ANSI X12 formatted data. The main target of development is for HIPAA insurance transactions (USA), but any X12 EDI transaction set should currently apply.
  • Eggdrop.conf creator
    a small X11 application for helping beginning eggdrop users generate .conf files
  • Einstein@GNOME
    Einstein@GNOME is a GNOME panel applet that lets you participate in the Einstein@Home neutron star search. It is a frontend for the boinc client.
  • EL Artificial Life
    an experiment in Artificial Life. It is a Perl program, designed to replicate and evolve. Its main goal is survival. It can learn from its children, and mutate
  • Electrocardiognosis
    an ambulatory 24h ECG monitor, that is a device about the size of a dictaphone which a patient carries with him for a day and which records an electrocardiogram, continuously, for this period
  • Elektra
    an alternative back-end for text configuration files. Instead of each program to have its own text configuration files, the Registry tries to provide a universal, fast, consistent, robust, thread-safe and transactional infrastructure to store configuration parameters through a key-value pair mechanism
  • ELF kickers
    a collection of programs that are generally unrelated, except in that they all deal with the ELF file format
  • Employee Scheduler
    designed to pick the most efficient schedule, given a matrix of number of employees per hour per weekday. It has a number of variables to work with, in order to tweak the output, such as number of full-time/part-time employees, which hours they can start at, what kinds of shifts the program picks, etc
  • Empris
    a platform and database independent method for receiving job or volunteer applications online and subsequently evaluating, indexing, searching and managing them
  • Endpoint
    Endpoint turns a Linux machine with one or more firewire cards into an SBP-2 device. The advantage is that you can use any file or device the linux machine supports as storage, and that multiple clients can sit on separate buses so they can get the full bandwidth of the bus.
  • Entwine
    Entwine is a command-line client and library written in Python using rdflib to access twine.com.
  • Etiquette
    an interaction protocols construction tool. Etiuqette allows to describe communication in high-level and textually condensed fashion. Built-in support for debugging and error-handling policies is provided. Etiquette is written in Common Lisp
  • ex11
    an Erlang-X11 binding. This is the X11 protocol implemented solely in Erlang.
  • eXtended Allow
    XAD is a Linux-PAM module used for authentication. The great thing about this module is that is very easy to configure using a simple language.
  • fakeroot
    provides a fake root environment by means of LD_PRELOAD and SYSV IPC (or TCP) trickery
  • Filesystem in Userspace
    a simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel. It also aims to provide a secure method for non privileged users to create and mount their own filesystem implementations
  • firescope
    firescope is a port of Ben Herrenschmidt's firescope tool to i386/x86-64 Linux with many additional changes. It allows you to read kernel logs and other memory over FireWire.
  • flagedit
    flagedit is a CLI USE flag editor for Gentoo Linux. It let you edit the use flags of /etc/make.conf, as well as the /etc/portage/package.use file.
  • Flightdeck-UI
    Flightdeck-UI is an Open Source product that utilizes the ideas in aircraft controls and instruments design for creating general purpose user interfaces
  • FlyWay
    a route planner for pilots. Flyway allows the user to find and enter U.S. waypoints (airports, navaids, and fixes), then it calculates courses, wind corrections, and travel times
  • fmscore
    a Perl program which uses Mail::Freshmeat and a configuration file supplied by the user to rank the entries in a newsletter by interest. It also has the nice side effect of removing the advertising from the top of the newsletter
  • fnkdat
    provides an interface for determining common directory names in Win32 and UNIX applications
  • Folding@Home Grapher
    stores a history of team standing statistics, which you update periodically (using fahgr). Each update is saved in your local data file. Fahgr's primary ability (as of this writing) is to create time/score graphs from the data file for teams of your choosing
  • fookb
    fookb is a Xkb state indicator. It can display an icon corresponding to current locked Xkb group. It also can switch Xkb groups.
  • FreeDiag
    Freediag is a suite of vehicle diagnostic protocols and an OBD II (mostly) compliant ScanTool, currently for Linux platforms. Multiple graphical user interfaces for scantool are under development - but right now, you have to use a command-line interface to scantool.
  • FreeIPMI
    GNU FreeIPMI is a suite of packages for controlling hardware that provides an interface compliant with the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification.
  • FreeWRLduneInputDevice
    a inputdevice driver for FreeWRL. FreeWRL is a immersive VRML97/ X3D browser for Linux/MacOSX
  • Frepple
    Frepple stands for "FreE Production Planning Library". It is a toolkit for modeling and solving production planning problems. It is targeted at discrete manufacturing industries.
  • freshupdate
    a shell script that, when used with xtail or equivelent, will send all the freshmeat.net headlines to your root window
  • fs10
    a control program for the interface FS10PC
  • FSHeal
    designed to help administrators and users to see statistics about the filesystem and "clean" redundant files
  • FSMDesigner
    FSMDesigner is a Finite State Machine (FSM) design tool with integrated Hardware Description Language (HDL) generation. It uses the Simple-Moore FSM model, guaranteeing efficient fast complex control circuits. It features graphical design of FSMs, support for automatic default transitions, validation of FSMs, a well-defined XML file format, generation of RTL HDL output for both Verilog and VHDL, full scriptability in Python, a modern GUI with undo and redo, simulation mode support, and table based data manipulation.
  • FSMGenerator
    a turn-key solution for FSM (Finite State Machine) generation and integration within user`s software
  • ftctl
    a simple command line interface for controlling the Funktimer devices FS 10 PC and FS 10 FT
  • Fusil
    Fusil project is a fuzzing program. Currently, it's specific to Linux command line programs, but the code is designed to be used with any project type (remote process, fake HTTP server, fuzz network socket, etc.). It is based on a multi-agent system instead of a monolithic architecture.
  • FW1-Loggrabber
    a simple LEA (Log Export API) Client for Checkpoint Firewall-1. It was developed in order to be able to access Firewall-1 Logfiles from command line from any host in the network
  • GAFFitter
    Genetic Algorithm File Fitter (gaffitter) is a command-line software written in C++ that extracts --via Genetic Algorithm-- subsets of an input list of files/directories that best fit the given volume size (target), such as CD, DVD and others.
  • Galapagos
    Galapagos is a fairly detail artificial life project in which a number of creatures a simulated over time. The simulation follows a number of laws which are inspired by, altough not replicating, the standard laws of nature.
  • Galette
    Galette offers a tool to manage members and contributions for societies such as LUGs.
  • Gaspell
    a Gnome frontend to Aspell (an Open Source spell checker)
  • Gcolor2
    a simple color selector that was originally based on gcolor, ported to use GTK2, and now has a completely new UI
  • GConjugue
    GConjugue is a graphical user interface for conjugue, a program that conjugates Portuguese verbs as spoken in Brazil.
  • Geek Code Generator
    Geek Code Generator generates a geek code block for you by simply choosing which codes suit you from the screen.
  • Gengen
    Gengen is a tool that, starting from a parameterized text (template), generates a text generator that can substitute parameters with values
  • Gestures Engine
    allows you to record sample strokes, and compare a new one to them
  • Get-NonFree-NonUS
    Get-NonFree-NonUS allows you to automatically download non-free and/or non-US packages from a Debian GNU/Linux server and generate an unofficial CDROM image. You can freely choose release, arch, and server. Proxies are supported.
  • GetHT
    GetHT downloads PDF and multimedia files from Hinduism Today, an "award winning, Macintosh-generated, full color quarterly news magazine articulating Indian spirituality for 135,000 readers around the world."
  • GFlashCards
    a learning tool for Mono and Gnome#. It lets you create questions that you can answer one by one (like with flashcards), helping you to learn things like vocabulary lists or lists of historical facts
  • gktools
    gktools consists of two GUI utilities for managing Kerberos V tickets.
  • gLabels
    a lightweight program for creating labels and business cards for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to work with various laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card sheets that you'll find at most office supply stores
  • glbmp
    glbmp is an extremely portable, simple, robust, and lightweight replacement for the auxDIBImageLoad and related device-independent bitmap (.bmp) image loader functions of glaux, but it goes far beyond just that. At the basic level, it's a flexible bitmap loader and decoder that can be used anywhere you need to get the color data of a .bmp file.
  • Gled
    an implementation of a hierarchic server-proxy-client-viewer model written in C++ and offering a mixture of object oriented framework and toolkit
  • glfer
    a program for reception and transmission of QRSS/DFCW signals. It is composed of two main parts: the spectrogram window, where you can see the spectrum of the received signal vs. time, the transmission functions, to emit cw characters at a slow but precisely controlled speed, using the QRSS (slow CW) or DFCW (Dual Frequency CW) modes
  • GMap
    Gnome Map Application Program: A standalone map program allowing you to find directions and browse the US, uses US Census Data as the map source.
  • gmodconfig
    a Gnome application which allows (or will allow) Linux users to: configure kernel modules' parameters, in their native language, check for new versions of kernel modules, as well as download, build and install those & access kernel modules informations
  • Gnome Blosxom
    Gnome Bloxsom is a GUI based program to post entries to a Blosxom based weblog. The program requires Python version 2.2 or greater, PyGTK version 2.0 or greater, and Gnome-Python for Gnome 2.
  • Gnome OSD
    Gnome OSD is a new small project to create an OSD (On Screen Display) infrastructure, similar to XOSD. It includes a command-line client, and sample xchat and rhythmbox plugins.
  • GNOME Quran
    GNOME Quran is an application that displays sura and aya of the Holy Quran in multiple languages.
  • GNOME Yare Browser Engine
    a fully GNOME-based browser engine, out of Gecko. may include non-GNOME stuff well. on the basis of GTK+-2.x, GNOME modules like gnome-vfs, libxml2, libxslt, mono, bonobo, gnome-canvas, and many things invoked. dominigue and bono
  • gnome-courier
    a collection of programs for courier services. It includes programs for managing clients, managing coworkers, managing jobs (receiving, distributing, and editing), printing bills and overdue notices, and managing the payroll
  • gnome-ihop
    a simple GNOME druid to take a zip code and return maps to the nearest IHOP using the www.Know-Where.com database.
  • GnomeRSVP
    Gnome Rapid Serial Visualization Project: provides Gnome compliance, font selection with Text, HTML, and PDF file support
  • GnomeTREK
    GnomeTREK is a graphical search tool for the Star Trek Encyclopedia CD-ROM(s). It allows you to search various versions released over the last few years. Images and videos are supported where external viewers are available.
  • Gnomolicious
    Gnomolicious is an GNOME applet that help you post links on the del.icio.us site simply by drag'n'dropping them.
  • GNU Enterprise
    a set of integrated business applications and tools to support accounting, supply chain, human resources, sales, manufacturing, and other business processes
  • GNU EPrints
    free software which creates online archives. The default configuration creates a research papers archive, but could be used for other purposes
  • GNUSim8085
    a simulator and assembler for the Intel 8085 Microprocessor, in GNOME environment
  • GNUstep examples
    GNUstep examples is a collection of programs that are meant to show programmers how to use GNUstep. It includes a calculator, a currency converter, finger, fractal, puzzle, hostaddress, and ink (a simple editor).
  • Gobby
    Gobby is a free collaborative editor based on libobby, a library which provides synced document buffers. It supports multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms.
  • Golix
    a tool to read the memory of an OLITEC modem
  • Gossip
    a mobile agent demonstration application that will find you anything you want on the Net
  • gpprog
    a fast and reliable PIC16F84 programmer. It is designed for speed, reliability and low wear on the PIC flash cells. A programmer schematic is available
  • Grapevine
    a notification framework for GNOME
  • Graph Invariant Database
    The Graph Invariant Database is a growing collection of graph invariants, data mining tools, and visualization software for simple graphs.
  • Grapple
    Grapple is designed to be a simple network layer, allowing the addition of multiuser features to an application for as little as a dozen lines of code. However, it also allows for more. It features simple client-server networking that keeps all clients aware of all other clients, passworded servers, and data transfer via TCP, UDP, or reliable UDP. Advanced features include network messaging via push, pull, or a combination, multiple methods of querying users, user groups for client bandwidth saving, network load reacting data transmission and retransmission, background pinging to monitor network states, server failover, and a fully functional lobby system.
  • Gravacacher
    Gravacacher is very simple and lightweight caching server designed for one specific purpose: to cache avatar images from services like www.gravatar.com, which provide "globally recognized avatars".
  • Greenstone
    Greenstone is a complete digital library creation, management, and distribution package for Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X. Users create collections by gathering a set of input documents, specifying a configuration file, and running the build script. It provides full-text and fielded searching, browsable indexes, customised formatting, metadata extraction (acronyms, languages, etc), a Z39.50 client, and many other features. It supports many input formats, the interface is configurable and multi-lingual, and collections can be distributed on the Web or on CD-ROM.
  • Growler
    Growler is a component-oriented framework aimed at distributed and collaborative visualization and computational steering. It is released under the NASA Open Source Agreement. Growler's distributed object and event architecture is suitable for application to high-performance LAN environments as well the Internet. Its features include strong integration with C++, selective distributed reference counting, and efficient well-typed event channels for local and remote event broadcast, with support for low-latency/low-perturbation events via a loss-tolerant "state-based" event model. There is also support for event transmission over Infiniband, and event sizes greater that 4 gigabytes.
  • gsmartcard
    a smart card reader for Gnome. It uses the program smartcard to communicate with the card reader and the cards
  • gsmdump
    gsmdump is a GSM cell tracker and cell broadcast decoder written for the Siemens S25 mobile phone.
  • gspi
    a Guile-based interface to the GNOME AT-SPI. It allows querying of the GNOME desktop via a Scheme evaluator
  • Gtk Theme Switch Ex
    Gtk Theme Switch Ex is a small and fast program which allows you to preview and switch GTK themes. It is designed to be usable and flexible from both the shell prompt and X-Windows display. It is based on the Gtk Theme Switch free software version 2.0.0.rc2.
  • gtk-acl
    a GTK frontend that allow users to manage ACL permissions. ACL is a new kind of access that overrides Unix permissions to support more fine-grained permissions
  • gtk-font-hack
    gtk-font-hack is a patch against the GDK (distributed with the GTK). It smooths fonts in GTK and GNOME programs. As its name suggests, it is a hack and really font smoothing should be done in other ways.
  • gtkbfc
    gtkbfc (GTK+ bash file chooser) is a hack that replaces the slow and hard-to-use GTK+ file chooser with an rxvt-unicode window that runs a little script that lets you use readline (and tab-completion) to enter filenames.
  • gumnut
    Gumnut is an openly-moderated distributed discussion forum that may be used by groups of people to find an agreed positive direction for any decisions that affect that group.
  • Guththila
    Guththila is a streaming SOAP parser which is implemented for use with axis-c++. It has basic SOAP processing with namespace support and encoding support. It can work well with UTF-8- and UTF-16-encoded documents.
  • gvSIG
    gvSIG is a tool oriented to manage geographic information. It is characterized by a user-friendly interface, with a quick access to the most usual raster and vector formats. In the same view it includes local as well as remote data through a WMS or WFS source.
  • gwx
    a graphical GTK+ client for the wx200d(8) weather station server. It is unique in that it looks and feels like the real WX200 weather station hardware
  • Hachoir parser
    Hachoir parser is a collection of parsers for the most common file formats. It was written for the Hachoir framework. It can open archives (7zip, bzip2, gzip, rpm, tar, unix_archive, zip), audio (aiff, itunesdb, midi, mpeg_audio/mp3, real_audio, sun_next_snd), video (asf, flv, mov, mpeg_ts, mpeg_video), audio/video containers (asn1, matroska, ogg/vorbis, ogg/theora, real_media, riff/avi, riff/wav, swf), filesystems (ext2, fat12, fat16, fat32, iso9660, linux_swap, msdos_harddrive, ntfs, reiserfs), game data (lucasarts_font, spiderman_video, zsnes), images (bmp, gif, ico, jpeg, pcx, png, psd, targa, tiff, wmf, xcf), programs (elf, exe, java_class, python), and more.
  • HALogen
    HumAn Language GENerator: a general-purpose natural language generation system
  • Hardware Debugger
    a graphical tool for detection, diagnostics and testing of custom hardware, designed to meet the needs of the hardware developer by enabling quick and easy testing of hardware without writing any code
  • haserl
    a small CGI wrapper that lets shell scripts be directly embedded into HTML documents. It exposes form elements from POST or GET requests as environment variables, and anything inside tags is run as a shell script
  • hash.c
    This hashtable uses C-strings for keys and quadratic probing instead of linked-list chains. It depends only on ANSI C and so should work anywhere.
  • Hashell
    Hashell is a shell written in Haskell and which is intended to provide a set of abstractions that allow you to use Haskell as a shell programming language for your daily administration tasks.
  • HDF5
    a new, experimental version of the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) that is designed to address some of the limitations of the current version, HDF4, and to address current and anticipated requirements of modern systems and applications
  • Heilan
    Heilan is a standalone OpenGL X3D browser designed for audio work. It features a low latency Ambisonic audio engine, allowing for full 3D sound with virtually any configuration of speakers.
  • HOL-OCL
    HOL-OCL is an interactive proof environment for the Object Constraint Language (OCL). It is implemented as a shallow embedding of OCL into the Higher-order Logic (HOL) instance of the interactive theorem prover Isabelle.
  • Howie
    a conversational AI -- a computer program you can talk to. He is designed to be simple to install, configure and (above all) extend
  • HpTrans
    a program in transferring and editing HP49 calculator files remotely from Linux
  • hslogger
    hslogger is a logging framework for Haskell, roughly similar to Python's logging module. hpodder lets each log message have a priority and source be associated with it. The programmer can then define global handlers that route or filter messages based on the priority and source. hslogger also has a syslog handler built in.
  • html2c
    html2c will help anyone writing cgi-bin programs in C. You can design your page with your favorite authoring tool and convert it to C code with this program. You can then modify its code to insert data dynamically.
  • htmlcrunch
    speeds up your HTML pages by removing things that are ignored by browsers anyway, such as superflous blanks, line feeds and comments
  • http_load
    runs multiple http fetches in parallel, to test the throughput of a web server
  • Hyperic HQ
    Hyperic HQ is a distributed infrastructure management system whose architecture assures scalability, while keeping the solution easy to deploy. HQ's design is meant to deliver on the promise of a single integrated management portal capable of managing unlimited types of technologies in environments that range from small business IT departments to the operations groups of today's largest financial and industrial organizations.
  • hyperjournal
    The HyperJournal is an Open Source software application which enables on-line as well as printed publishing in an innovative and significantly cost-cutting way. The HyperJournal can be easily installed, configured and managed without any out-of-the-ordinary IT-competence.
  • IberAgents
    IberAgents is an agent platform enabling the creation of SOAP-interoperable agents, with life cycle management and remote configuration.
  • icdprog
    a simple command line programmer for Microchip PIC controllers, using the Microchip ICD (in circuit debugger) hardware
  • icsiboost
    Boosting is a meta-learning approach that aims at combining an ensemble of weak classifiers to form a strong classifier.
  • iiimf-skk
    a language engine module for IIIMF (the Internet/Intranet Input Method Framework). This module provides SKK (Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program), an input method for Japanese
  • IMWheel
    a program to use that good ole Microsoft Intellimouse Wheel under XFree on linux
  • Indywiki
    Indywiki is an application that offers different ways of visually browsing the collection of data contained by Wikipedia.
  • Inferno
    Lucent Technologies' network operating system targeted at internet appliances, network computers, desktops, network elements and servers. This evaluation package contains an emulator which will run under Linux, Solaris, or Windows 95/98/NT
  • Initinf
    a Perl script that works with the modem driver files (.inf) that most manufacturers ship for MS operating systems
  • Interactive Learning Environment
    a small but powerful environment for building interactive learning environments. It can be used to build any Web application that needs interactive, persistent form-based features.
  • ipac
    helps geting ip accounting information on a regular basis
  • IPMItool
    a simple command-line interface to systems that support the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) v1.5 specification. It provides the ability to read the SDR and print sensor values, display the contents of the SEL, print FRU information, read and set LAN configuration parameters, and perform chassis power control
  • irqtune
    changes the IRQ priority of devices to allow devices that require high priority and fast service (e.g. serial ports, modems) to have it
  • isbf
    isbf creates a fifo file and directs the input stream through this fifo to produce a potentially modified output stream. This lets you use the fifo to insert any content you like into the input stream.
  • ithought
    ithought is a personal thought manager, allowing you to create and store entries that can be linked together via keywords.
  • iXalance
    a Linux port of The Black Lotus' iXalance demo loader system for Win32