Open Source Software Reviews

gawk is the GNU implementation of awk, the utility to interpret a special-purpose programming language that makes easy handling of simple data-reformatting jobs with just a few lines of code.

Making changes in various text files or extracting data from parts of certain lines while discarding the rest is quite time consuming and inconvenient if the program is written in C or Pascal since these languages take many lines of code. However, the job is easily done with gawk.

curl is a command line tool for transferring files using URL syntax. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, DICT, TELNET, LDAP, FILE, and GOPHER, as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, file transfer resume, proxy tunneling etc.

Berkeley DB (libdb) is an open source programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support to traditional as well as client/server applications.

This software is featured with b+tree, queue, extended linear hashing, fixed, and variable-length record access methods, transactions, locking, logging, shared memory caching, database recovery, and replication for highly available systems.

db4o is open source object database available for Java and for .NET, including Compact Framework and Mono with the same feature set and database file format. It allows cross-platform development Features, which include ACID transactions.

phpMyAdmin is a tool created to handle the administration part of MySQL over the Web. It is featured with all the functionalities of database create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.

RRDtool (Round Robin Database Tool) is industry standard data logging and graphing application. It is also used as a time-series data storage and graphing utility tool and is created by the author of MRTG. MRTG is Multi Router Traffic Graphic that can be written Using RRDtool in few minutes with only a few lines of Perl or shell code.

PHP-Nuke is a Web portal and online community system. It is featured with Web-based administration, surveys, access statistics, user customizable boxes, a theme manager for registered users. It includes a totally new advertising system that will make a site a more interesting and productive.

Vim is an advanced text editor, which is considered as the fully compatible version of the Unix editor Vi along with more complete feature list.

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is descended from the Vi clone “stevie” and is distributed with most UNIX systems. However, it supports most of the other operating systems like MS Windows, OS/2, Macintosh, VMS and Amiga.

GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor that allows to write structured documents via a “wysiwyg” and user-friendly interface. This open source software is a combination of TeX and GNU Emacs.

Scribus is a DTP program for GNU/Linux. Its goal is to provide an easy-to-use tool for simple Desktop Publishing.

Scribus is a user-friendly, powerful application, built with Qt libraries and runs natively in the KDE desktop environment. The software is quite similar to Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign.