jed – cross-platform text editor

Jed is a small, fast (faster startup than bash) and powerful text editor. This package is completely customizable with prepared emulation modes for Emacs, CUA (similar to KDE/Gnome/OpenOffice), Borland-IDE, Brief, and EDT. It is extensible in the S-Lang scripting language

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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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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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Library

20 of the Best Free Linux Books – Part 3

The focus of this article is to select some of the finest Linux books which are available to download for free. The vast majority of the books featured here can also be freely distributed to others.

To cater for all tastes, we have chosen a wide range of books, encompassing general introductions to Linux, books that concentrate on a specific distribution or application, books for programmers, as well as books that have defined the evolution of free software. All of the texts here come with our strongest recommendation. So get reading (and downloading).

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Editra – multi-platform text editor

Editra is an open source multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development. This application currently supports syntax highlighting and a variety of other useful features

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Kexi – visual database applications creator tool

Kexi is an integrated data management application. It can be used for creating databases, inserting data, performing queries, and processing data. Forms can be created to provide a custom interface to your data. All database objects – tables, queries and

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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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