Flickr Photo Downloader – download Flickr images

Flickr Photo Downloader is a small, open source utility written in the Java programming language which lets users download Flickr images from public profiles. To download images from a public profile, you only need to know the Flickr account name,

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18 Extra Hot Linux Commercial Games (Part 3 of 3)

There remains a scarcity of commercial games available for Linux with the big game companies rarely venturing into the Linux world. The main reason cited continues to be that its market share does not warrant high ticket-price games being ported

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18 Extra Hot Linux Commercial Games (Part 2 of 3)

It cannot be denied that there remains a paucity of games for Linux produced by the large well known gaming companies. It is sometimes perceived that part of the reason rests with Linux gamers themselves. Given the number and variety

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18 Extra Hot Linux Commercial Games (Part 1 of 3)

One of the things we really want to witness is Linux making a significant penetration in the desktop market share. Whilst most supercomputers use the Linux platform, it is lamentable that the vast majority of desktops continue to run Microsoft

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Apache Flex – application framework

Apache Flex (formerly Adobe Flex) is an open source framework for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform. Flex seeks to minimize the animation metaphor by offering a workflow and programming model

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42 of the Best Commercial Linux Games

Are there many high quality commercial games available for Linux? That’s one of the frequently asked questions we receive in our mailbox every week. It is true to say that the number of commercial games released for Linux each year

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Eukleides – geometry drawing language

Eukleides is a language which allows one to typeset geometric figures within a (La)TeX document. It aims to be a fairly comprehensive system to create geometric figures, either static or dynamic. It allows to handle basic types of data: numbers

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phpGroupWare – groupware suite written in PHP

phpGroupWare (formerly known as webdistro) is a multi-user groupware suite written in PHP and part of the DotGNU project. It provides about 50 web-based applications including a Calendar, Addressbook, an advanced Project manager, Todo List, Email, and File manager. These

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D.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

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VARKON – CAD system

VARKON is a high level development tool for applications in the area of Engineering, Computer Aided Design and Product Modelling. VARKON can be used as a traditional CAD-system with drafting, modelling and visualisation if you want to but the real

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Omnitux – various educational activities

Omnitux is a set of educational activities based on multimedia elements (images, sounds, and text). Omnitux provides various different activity types including associations, puzzles and counting. Omnitux activities are described in relatively simple XML files. Therefore, people without programming skills

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