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0verkill – free 2D deathmatch game in ASCII art

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Games

0verkill is a client-server 2D deathmatch game in ASCII art. It supports free connecting / disconnecting during the game.

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DiabloRL – roguelike game

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Games

DiabloRL is a roguelike “unmake” of the popular Blizzard game Diablo 1 classic RPG to a turn-based ASCII roguelike.

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Maths

FreeMat – rapid engineering and scientific prototyping and data processing

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

FreeMat is a free environment for rapid engineering and scientific prototyping and data processing. It is similar to commercial systems such as MATLAB.

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K3DSurf – visualize and manipulate mathematical models

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

K3DSurf is a program to visualize and manipulate multidimensional surfaces by using mathematical equations. It is also a modeler for POV-Ray.

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Maths

Mathomatic – computer algebra software

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Mathomatic is a fast and easy-to-use console mode Computer Algebra System (CAS) that can manipulate symbolic equations and expressions.

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Calf Studio Gear – audio plug-in pack for LV2 and JACK environments

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Calf Studio Gear is an audio plug-in pack for LV2 and JACK environments under Linux operating systems. The suite contains lots of effects.

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Music

Decibel Audio Player – GTK+ audio player

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Decibel is a simplistic and functional music player for the GNOME desktop.

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Music

Minirok – small music player written in Python

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Minirok is a small music player written in Python for the K Desktop Environment (KDE 4). The software is modelled on the highly popular application, Amarok.

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Music

Xnoise – media player for Gtk

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Xnoise is a media player for Gtk+ with an attractive graphical user interface, fast performance, and bags of features.

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OCR Tools

NAPS2 – document scanning application

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.

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Security

Netfilter – packet filtering framework

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Netfilter is a framework offering a set of hooks inside the Linux kernel that allows kernel modules to register callback functions with the network stack.

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Security

Zeek – network security monitor

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Zeek is a powerful framework for network traffic analysis and security monitoring.

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Security

Argus – auditing network software

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Audit Record Generation and Usage System (Argus) is a Real Time Flow Monitor that is designed to perform comprehensive IP network traffic auditing.

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Security

ntop – network traffic probe

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

ntop is a network traffic probe that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does.

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Security

SEC – tool for advanced event processing

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Simple Event Correlator (SEC) is an open source and platform independent event correlation tool. SEC is a simple event correlation tool.

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Security

Scapy – packet manipulation program

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program. It is able to forge or decode packets of a wide number of protocols.

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Security

Knocker – TCP security port scanner

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Knocker is a simple, and easy to use TCP security port scanner written in C. It’s able to analyze hosts and the network services which are running on them.

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Security

tcpreplay – Pcap editing and replaying utilities

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

tcpreplay is a set of tools written which gives you the ability to use previously captured traffic in libpcap format to test a variety of network devices.

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Security

Darik’s Boot and Nuke – hard drive eraser and data clearing utility

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Darik’s Boot and Nuke (“DBAN”) is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers.

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Security

Nikto – web server scanner

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Nikto is a web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items.

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