Open Source Software Reviews

The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Though the protocol it uses is mainly for Unix systems it allows serving files and printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients too. This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the LanManager or Netbios protocol.

PHProjekt is a groupware suite, which supports coordination and management of group activities, share information and document among the teams and companies via an Intranet and the Internet.

This modular application consists of multiple components, including a group calendar with resource booking, a time card system, project management, a request tracker, a mutual file system, a contact manager, a mail client, a forum, chat, notes, shared bookmarks, to do lists, a voting system, and reminders. An API allows the integration of several available add-ons like, Web shop, WAP suite, sync tools etc.

phpCMS, the php based Content Management System is one of the most high performing and flexible CMS available today. Be it small private web pages or complex professional high traffics website – phpCMS is suitable for all. Above all, it is free and open source software, comes with GNU General Public License.

MLdonkey is an open source multi-platform multi-network peer-to-peer application. It is the first open source client to access the eDonkey network. It also accesses other networks, such as, Overnet, Bittorrent, Gnutella, Fasttrack, Soulseek, Direct-Connect, and Opennap.

Libxslt is a XSLT C library developed for GNOME. It is based on libxml2 for XML parsing, tree manipulation, and XPath support. It also contains a command line XSLT processing tool - 'xsltproc'. Users can either embed the library in their application or use xsltproc for processing Libxslt.

Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project. The library code is portable and modular and usable outside of the Gnome platform. Libxml2 is free software available under the MIT License.

DocBook is an XML/SGML vocabulary or DTD (Document Type Definition) that enables to create document content in a presentation-neutral form by getting the logical structure of the content. The project DocBook is maintained by the DocBook Technical Committee of Oasis.

C-Arbre is an integrated Intranet/Web software suite oriented towards knowledge management. It can be used by small to medium sized organizations as well as individuals. It allows building an information system, which can be used either as a stand-alone computer or in a complex networking environment.

Bluefish is a powerful web development editor for experienced web designers and programmers. The software is written using GTK and is designed to reduce the workload of the Webmaster.

Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages. However, it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites. Bluefish runs on most of the POSIX compatible operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, OpenBSD, Solaris and Tru64.

BitTorrent is a free speech tool, which enables copying files from one machine to another over the Internet. BitTorrent is immensely popular among the web publishers because the software allows the users automatically reflect files they download, reducing the publisher’s work effectively.