Projects

rsync

rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer.

rdesktop

rdesktop is an open source client for the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), which is used in a number of Microsoft products including Windows NT Terminal Server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, and Windows 2003 Server. rdesktop currently runs on Linux and other Unix based platforms with the X Window System.

Synergy

Synergy lets you easily share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers on your desk, and it's Free and Open Source. Just move your mouse off the edge of one computer's screen on to another. You can even share all of your clipboards. All you need is a network connection. Synergy is ... [More] cross-platform (works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux). [Less]

Rockbox

Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for portable music players. It runs on a wide range of different models.

XBMC Media Center

XBMC media center is a free cross-platform media-player jukebox and entertainment hub. XBMC is open source (GPL) software available for Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows operating-system, and the Xbox game-console. XBMC can play a very complete spectrum of of multimedia formats, and featuring ... [More] playlist, audio visualizations, slideshow, and weather forecast functions, together with a multitude of third-party plugins. [Less]

Fetchmail

Fetchmail is a full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand or permanent dynamic-address TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP3, IMAP4r1, ETRN ... [More] , and ODMR, all with various authentication variants, and TLS/SSL security with certificate verification. Fetchmail retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it via SMTP, LMTP, or to a local delivery agent. Mail can then be read by normal mail software such as mutt or alpine. This setup allows all your system MTA's filtering, forwarding, and aliasing facilities to work just as they would on normal mail. [Less]

Ultr@VNC

Ultr@VNC: Video Driver and ddi Accelerated - FileTransfer - Single Window - Auto Scaling - MSLogon authentication - Encryption plugins - Text Chat - Screen blanking - Dynamic resolution switching - VNC Compatibility - Toolbar - High performances. Supports Windows Vista.

KRDC (KDE Remote Desktop Client)

claimed by KDE

KRDC is a client application that allows you to view or even control the desktop session on another machine that is running a compatible (RDP/VNC) server.

duplicity

Duplicity backs up directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses librsync, the incremental archives are space efficient and only record the parts of files that have changed since the last backup. Because duplicity ... [More] uses GnuPG to encrypt and/or sign these archives, they will be safe from spying and/or modification by the server. The duplicity package also includes the rdiffdir utility. Rdiffdir is an extension of librsync's rdiff to directories---it can be used to produce signatures and deltas of directories as well as regular files. These signatures and deltas are in GNU tar format. [Less]

TRAMP

This is an Emacs extension similar to Ange-FTP, but where Ange-FTP uses FTP to transfer the files, Tramp uses a shell login. The file transfer itself is either via uuencode or base64 encoding through the shell, or via external programs such as rcp or scp.