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ChatZilla – IRC client
ChatZilla is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client, written in XUL and JavaScript for Mozilla web browsers. ChatZilla is available from the Mozilla Add-ons site as an extension for Mozilla Firefox and is an optional component during installation for the
Read moreg95 – Fortran 95 compiler
g95 is a free, portable, open source Fortran 95 compiler. It implements the Fortran 95 standard, part of the Fortran 2003 standard and some old and new extensions including proposed features for the Fortran 2008 standard like Co-array Fortran. Parts
Read moreOpen64 **AWOL**
Open64 is a discontinued open source, optimizing compiler for the Itanium and x86-64 microprocessor architectures. The Open64 compiler suite includes optimizing compilers and runtime support for C, C++ and FORTRAN 77/90/95. These compilers produce code that follows the corresponding ABI
Read moreSOSS – chess tournament software
SOSS is software which pairs the players in chess tournaments, a so called “chess pairing program”. SOSS is a bit different from other chess pairing programs in that it has a strong focus on the complete event, not only the
Read morejose – graphical chess tool
Jose is a creative graphical chess utility that allows users to store your chess games within a MySQL database using a graphical frontend. You can view and edit games (including variations and comments). You can play against a plugged-in chess
Read moreChessDB – chess database software
ChessDB is a popular free chess database. With ChessDB, you can maintain a database of chess games, search games by many criteria, view graphical trends and produce printable reports on players and openings. There are many more features (see below).
Read moreCrafty – computer chess program
Crafty is a strong chess program. It is a chess engine, and concerns itself with playing chess and not with providing a graphical user interface. This means that Crafty is typically invoked indirectly by using a chess client. Crafty uses
Read moreGlaurung – UCI chess engine
Glaurung is a free chess engine. It is not a complete chess program, but uses the UCI (Universal Chess Interface) for chess engines as its communication protocol. Therefore to play against the engine, you either need to use a UCI
Read moreToga II – chess engine
Toga II is a derivative of the Fruit chess engine. It enhances on Fruit by offering greater chess knowledge and a better search algorithm. It is an UCI-only chess engine, and is reliant on a chess interface such as xboard
Read moredecaf – Java chess client
decaf is a Java based chess client for the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) with attractive board and piece sets. FICS is a server for chess players to play against each other over the Internet. There is an optional speech
Read moreWink – tutorial and presentation creation software
Wink is a software tool to make presentations and tutorials about using software programs. A Wink presentation will resemble a live walkthrough about how to use the software. The author of the presentation can also add comments and explanations to
Read moreIstanbul – desktop session recorder
Istanbul is a desktop session recorder for the Free Desktop. It records your session into an Ogg Theora video file. To start the recording, you click on its icon in the notification area. To stop you click its icon again.
Read morexvidcap small tool to capture display
xvidcap is a tool that captures movement on an X11 display for illustration or documentation purposes. It works in two distinct modes: In single-frame capture mode xvidcap takes a configurable number of screenshots per second and saves them to individual
Read morepyvnc2swf – screen recording tool
Pyvnc2swf is a cross-platform screen recording tool. The sofware captures screen motion through the VNC protocol and generates a Shockwave Flash (SWF) movie. Pyvnc2swf suite comes with three separate Python programs: 1) vnc2swf.py – a program captures a VNC sessions
Read moreByzanz – record your desktop
Byzanz is a command-line / GNOME Panel applet which allows users to record their current desktop or parts of it to an animated GIF file. This is especially useful for publishing on the web, since every browser understands the GIF
Read moreOpsview – network and application monitoring tool
Opsview is a network and application monitoring tool that extends the capabilities of Nagios. Opsview is enterprise system monitoring software designed for scalability, flexibility and ease of use. It is a fully integrated monitoring tool that incorporates popular Open Source
Read moreDocBook Doclet – generate DocBook XML from javadoc or HTML
The DocBook Doclet (dbdoclet) creates DocBook code from Java source documentation. This software helps if you want to create reference handbooks of your API. Normally it is used with the Javadoc tool but it can also be used as a
Read moreD.U.M.A – Detect Unintended Memory Access
DUMA is an open-source library to detect buffer overruns and under-runs in C and C++ programs. DUMA helps developers detect common programming bugs: Overrunning the end (or beginning) of a dynamically allocated buffer. Using a dynamically allocated buffer after returning
Read moreFreeNX – remote display server
FreeNX is a GPL implementation of the NX Server and NX Client Components. NX is a technology for remote display. It provides near local speed application responsiveness over high latency, low bandwidth links. The core libraries for NX are provided
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