Projects tagged ‘solaris’

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a graphical desktop, a set of applications and a development platform. It is created by a community of people dedicated to create a free and user-friendly computing experience. KDE offers all necessary means to ... [More] easily build all kinds of applications upon. KDE has been around since 1996, with code change history dating back at least to 1997. KDE is one of the biggest free software C++ project around and one of the two leaders of unix desktops. [Less]

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. (Wireshark was known as Ethereal until June 09, 2006)

smartmontools contains utilities that control and monitor storage devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) system built into ATA and SCSI hard drives. This is used to check the reliability of the hard drive ... [More] and to predict drive failures. It is meant to be an up-to-date replacement for the ucsc-smartsuite and smartsuite packages, and is derived from that code. [Less]

Qt is a cross-platform (Windows, Unix, MacOs X) graphical toolkit. Qt features a rich API to write GUI software, but also for other aspect of application development : network classes, xml, internationalisation, database, ...

The KDE libraries, basis of KDE and used by many open source projects. They are based on Qt, Trolltech's cross-platform toolkit, and run on Linux, BSDs, and other Unices, as well as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Licensed under GNU LGPL, they may be used by open source and proprietary applications.

OpenSolaris is an open source project created by Sun Microsystems to build a developer community around the Solaris Operating System technology.

GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX. Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank ... [More] accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports. [Less]

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously ... [More] discrete elements like packages, services, and files. Puppet's simple declarative specification language provides powerful classing abilities for drawing out the similarities between hosts while allowing them to be as specific as necessary, and it handles dependency and prerequisite relationships between objects clearly and explicitly. [Less]

The NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc) is a framework for building third-party software on NetBSD and other Unix-like systems, currently containing over 6400 packages. It is used to enable freely available software to be configured and built easily on supported platforms.

Bacula is a set of programs that allow you to manage the backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of different computers. It is based on a client/server architecture and is efficient and relatively easy to use, while ... [More] offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. [Less]

KVIrc is a free portable IRC client based on the excellent Qt GUI toolkit. KVIrc is being written by Szymon Stefanek and the KVIrc Development Team with the contribution of many IRC addicted developers around the world.

Amanda is a backup system that allows the administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts over network to tape drives/changers or disks or optical media. Amanda uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back ... [More] up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Amanda uses Samba or Cygwin to back up Microsoft Windows desktops and servers. See http://wiki.zmanda.com for more information. [Less]

Bcfg2 helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks.

FlameRobin is an administration and management GUI tool for the Firebird DBMS written in C++ using wxWidgets and IBPP libraries. The goal of the project is to build a lightweight, cross-platform application which doesn't have any closed-source dependency for either building or running.

S.C.O.U.R.G.E. is a Rogue-like game with a modern user interface. The game allows a group of four characters to search for treasure, kill enemies, gain levels, etc.

Ingres 2006 is an affordable, scalable, high-performance platform that helps enterprises reduce the complexity of their database environment.

ZFS is a new kind of file system that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to ... [More] data management. We've blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, eliminated complexity at the source, and created a storage system that's actually a pleasure to use. [Less]

PM2 is a low level generic runtime system which integrates multithreading management (Marcel) and a high performance multi-cluster communication library (Madeleine).

A database designed for the typical Web usage patterns for a database. It is being designed for massive concurrency on modern multi-cpu/core architecture. The code is originally derived from MySQL.

Top is a program that will give continual reports about the state of the system, including a list of the top cpu using processes.

Update Center 2 is a 2nd generation image management tool to be used by Glassfish V3 and other Sun-sponsored infrastructure software projects. The name for the graphical tool in this release is updatetool. This tool leverages the Image Packaging System (IPS) from the OpenSolaris project.

pam_passwdqc is a simple password strength checking module for PAM-aware password changing programs, such as passwd(1). In addition to checking regular passwords, it offers support for passphrases and can provide randomly generated ones. All features are optional and can be (re-)configured without rebuilding.

Open MPI is a project that originated as the merging of technologies and resources from several other projects (FT- MPI, LA-MPI, LAM/MPI, and PACX-MPI) in order to build the best MPI library available. A completely new MPI-2 compliant implementation ... [More] , Open MPI offers advantages for system and software vendors, application developers, and computer science researchers. It is easy to use, and runs natively on a wide variety of operating systems, network interconnects, and batch/scheduling systems. [Less]

Backbone is a user environment, using the GNUstep libraries, using the design of the NeXTstep/OPENSTEP user environment as a springboard; the idea is to do better, not just different.

An Integrated Development Environment for producing presentation and simulation based eLearning (as Flash), similar to Macromedia Captivate. Licensed under the LGPLv3.

BRLTTY is a background process (daemon) which provides access to the Linux/Unix console (when in text mode) for a blind person using a refreshable braille display. It drives the braille display, and provides complete screen review functionality. Some speech capability has also been incorporated.

This 2D sceletal animation libary supports OpenGl and the DirectX renderer. It reads and writes xml files for animations. The code is completely written in c++ and uses tinyxml and the standard Library. There is also an editor being developed with ... [More] gtkmm alongside the libary. The editor can be used to create animtions which can be loaded with the libary. Both, editor and libary, are still in development and additional programmers are welcome. If you are interested in helping to develop this libary please contact me at mail@fkrauthan.de. [Less]

The Java Auction Organisation and Listing Tool allows the user to create and organize their auctions for eBay AND AuVito offline as well as list the created auctions without using a website. Thanks to Java, (nearly) every OS is supported.

The Java 3D core utilities

Pkgman is used to maintain the desired software package state on all of your solaris hosts. Add the package names to the configuration file and indicate what hosts the package applies to and whether it should be installed or removed. Run pkgman ... [More] on a host and point it to the configuration file and pkgman will determine which package records apply to the executing host. For further information please consult the http://pkgman.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/README file which currently contains all of the documentation. To download pkgman you can grab the gzipped tarball marked "latest stable version" from the download list http://code.google.com/p/pkgman/downloads/list. Currently the name for the gzipped tarball ball is pkgman-.tar.gz. When you gunzip/untar the archive you will end up with a directory called pkgman-. The README file included in the tar archive has a section titled "INSTALLATION" which covers the details of installing pkgman. It basically says to execute the command "ruby setup.rb" while you are in the directory created after you unpacked the tarball. If you want to check out the source code using subversion you can run the following command. svn checkout http://pkgman.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pkgman I'm using a stable trunk method for development. All changes are made to a branch, tested and then merged back into the trunk. [Less]