Open Source Software Reviews

ZoneMinder is a set of applications, which support capture, analysis, recording, and monitoring of video data coming from cameras attached to a Linux system. Its Web interface lets users view, archive, review, and delete images and movies. The image analysis system provided by ZoneMinder is highly configurable: users can retain specific events while eliminating false positives.

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer available to you (including webhosts). It can scale from a single-teacher site to a 40,000-student University.

DokuWiki is a standard compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is developed targeting at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. DokuWiki has a simple but powerful syntax with quickbuttons and access keys. This makes sure that the data files remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured texts.

vHost (virtual hosting made simple) is a one-step solution for all virtual hosting needs. It enables a Linux or BSD server with single or multiple IP addresses to function as unlimited virtual hosts with HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP and other virtual services.

Smarty is a template engine for PHP. Many other template engines for PHP provide basic variable substitution and dynamic block functionality. Smarty takes a step further to be a "smart" template engine, adding features such as configuration files, template functions, and variable modifiers, and making all of these functionalities as easy as possible to use for both programmers and template designers. Smarty also converts the templates into PHP scripts, eliminating the need for parsing the templates on every invocation. This makes Smarty extremely scalable and manageable for large application needs.

IMP is the Internet Messaging Program. It is written in PHP and provides webmail access to IMAP and POP3 accounts. It is a web-based email tool provided under the HKU Portal for email communication. IMP provides the normal functions of a web-based mail tool: reading mail, sending mail, moving mail among folders, deleting mail (allowing undelete), setting up address books and distribution lists etc. Moreover, it allows the users to blacklist and filter unwanted junk mails using personalized mail filtering rules.

XOOPS is an acronym of extensible Object Oriented Portal System. Though it was originally developed as a portal system, it is now an extensible Object Oriented dynamic web content management system, written in PHP.

Web-Analiser PRO is an analytic system to collect and analyze statistics of your website traffic. It is an extended version of Web-Analiser and comes with updated design. It provides the entire range of every possible statistics and reports of analyzing site traffic, which includes analyzing visitors, pages, clicks, hits etc.

Tiny ERP is complete open source ERP and CRM software. It covers all the domains for small to medium businesses like accounting, stock management, sales, customer relationship, purchases, project management and much more.

SQLiteManager is a multilingual Web-based tool for managing SQLite databases. The programming language used to develop this software is PHP4. However, PHP5 is also used to build SQLiteManager. This open source software works well on Linux as well as other operating systems like all 32-bit MS Windows platforms (95/98/NT/2000/XP), BSD and other UNIX-like operating systems.