Open Source Software Reviews

Centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven Instant Messaging interface that allows to send, receive, and forward messages. It also allows sending URLs and SMSes through both ICQ server and e-mail gateways supported by Mirabilis. The software supports the ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu, and Jabber protocols.

Advanced Web Statistics or AWStats is a free powerful Web server logfile analyzer that shows you all your Web statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, rush hours, search engines, keywords used to find your site, robots, broken links, and more.

Apache Toolbox provides tools for compiling Apache (IPv4/6) SSL, PHP (v3/v4), MySQL, Jakarta, a large number of modules (61 3rd party modules and 36 default Apache modules, static or as DSOs), and GD libraries with PNG+JPEG+Freetype2+zlib support.

ALSA or the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture provides audio and MIDI functionalities to the Linux operating system.

ALSA is a collection of several modules. The first is a fully modularized sound driver, which supports modules like autoloading, devfs, isapnp autoconfiguration, and gives complete access to analog audio, digital audio, control, mixer, synthesizer, DSP, MIDI, and timer components of audio hardware.

Album is a free HTML/XHTML photo album and gallery generator that supports themes/skins. Users can choose from different provided themes or write their own to get different layouts and styles for images.

Sylpheed is an e-mail client and newsreader software, based on GTK+ GUI toolkit. This free software solution is distributed under GNU GPL and runs on UNIX, Linux as well as X Windows System.

Sylpheed was developed aiming the following:

SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP4. This standards-based software includes built-in pure PHP support along with IMAP and SMTP protocols.

The SquirrelMail software was developed aiming to access e-mail and address books effectively through a web interface from anywhere in the world. After a thorough research on several open source web mail packages, SquirrelMail appeared in the market with customizable look and feel along with satisfying users requirements.

Sendmail is an open source Mail Transfer Agent (MTA). It is a computer program that delivers mail from one machine to another.

Originally, Sendmail was written by Eric Allman in 1980s. In 1983, Sendmail was first shipped with BSD 4.1, the first BSD version that includes TCP/IP. The current version of Sendmail is 8.13.4, which has been released on March 27, 2005.

Open WebMail is an open source webmail system designed to manage very large mail folders and files in an efficient way. This system is based on the neomail version 1.14 of Ernie Miller.

Open WebMail is simple and easy-to-use software along with a large number of features for its users. This software is considered as one of the major competitors of Microsoft Outlook.

Mutt is a text-based MIME mail client. It was originally written by Michael Elkins. However, it is now managed by the Mutt development mailing list.

Initially, Mutt’s interface was based on ELM client. Subsequently, as development work progressed, features of PINE and MUSH were also incorporated into Mutt. The current version of Mutt looks like SLRN news client.