Open Source Software Reviews

NTFS is an abbreviation of New Technology Filesystem.It is used by Windows NT,2000,and XP.It provides Linux Kernel Drivers,a multiplatform NTFS library,and various tools for resizing,creating,rescuing,and fixing NTFS volumes.It is compatible with kernel preemption and SMP and both on 32 and 64 bit architecture.It also provides support for the Logical Disk Manager which is used to create software mirrors,stripes etc.No defragmentation is required for resizing. It is not required to install Linux for using it,It can be run in several ways such as by booting one of the many Linux Live CD,DVD.The major advantages are:

Galeon is a GNOME Web browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering engine). It is fast and has a light interface, and is fully standards-compliant. Galeon is a fairly mature browser that sports a full set of features including menus, personal toolbar, bookmark manager, cookie manager, prefs, and good dialog support. It has got strong set of comparable features and pretty fast also. Java, SSL, plugins and helper apps work well. It can be downloaded easily from Mozilla site.

GNU Wget is a utility software for non-interactive download of files from the Web. It supports HTTP and FTP protocols and can be retrieved through HTTP proxies. As it is a non-interactive commandline tool, it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

Firefox is a re-design of Mozilla browser component. It is formerly known as Phoenix and Firebird. It is the most useful web browser for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. XUL user interface language had been used to written this browser and was designed to be cross-platform. Firefox is free software and can easily be downloaded from Mozila site.

KDE is an acronym for K Desktop Environment. It is a graphical desktop environment mainly used for Linux and Unix workstations.

The main features of KDE includes: ease of use, contemporary functionality and outstanding graphical design with the advanced Unix operating system.

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is a cross-platform Perl module for producing spreadsheets in an Excel format. This format is virtually imperceptible from a file produced by Excel itself, which means it can be read flawlessly by MS Office applications, Gnumeric, and other similar spreadsheet packages out there.

white_dune is a graphical VRML97 editor, simple NURBS/Superformula 3D modeller and animation tool. VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the Web via browser plugins ("HTML for realtime 3D"). It has support for animation, real-time interaction, and multimedia (images, movies, and sounds).

WebGUI is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) available today. This CMS framework is built to allow average business users to build and manage content of complex Web sites.

WebGUI is modular, pluggable, and platform independent software. It was designed to manage content easily and effectively. It allows the people who create the content to manage it online – by uploading, editing and publishing content.

Squid is a high-performance proxy-caching server for web clients that can be arranged hierarchically for an improvement in response times and a reduction in bandwidth usage. It is free and open source software and supports FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Squid is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol to provide secure conferencing services on the Internet. It can be used to send any kind of messages, in addition to normal text messages. This includes multimedia messages like images, video, and audio stream.