Open Source Software Reviews

txt2pdf is an elastic and potent tool to change txt, text, textual reports and spools into PDF [invoice, form, sale sheet, report]. It can be used from other applications to convert documents or it can be used alone. Often most of your documents are text files. txt2pdf helps you take these old text files and transfer them to PDF without even passing the data through PostScript.

SSH means Secured Shell. Actually this is a protocol that is used to impart more security over the communication. This is a very flexible protocol. Many other applications can run over on the top of the layer, upon which SSH works and they don’t interfere on the other applications. SSH makes use of cryptography very well. You can also encrypt login session if SSH is used. With this facility, SSH makes impossible for the hackers to hack the encrypted password.

hdparm is a Linux shell, which helps in reckoning, controlling and improving several drive parameters and IDE drives. It offers a command line boundary to several hard disk ioctls supported by Linux system.

mkisofs is open source pre-mastering program to generate an ISO9660/JOLIET/HFS hybrid filesystem. This software is capable of generating the System Use Sharing Protocol records (SUSP) specified by the Rock Ridge Interchange protocol. It is useful for describing the files in the ISO9660 filesystem to a UNIX host, and provides information such as longer filenames, uid/gid, posix permissions, symbolic links, and block and character devices.

NASLite is a very simple file server Linux distribution that fits on a single floppy. It is a collection of single floppy disk based Network Attached Storage (NAS) Server Operating Systems designed to transform a basic computer into a dedicated file server. So, if you have some old computers lying around, NASLite can bring back their old glories.

Screen is a computer authorized full screen window, which imparts physical terminal multiplexer. Screen terminator lets you continue your program even after you have mistakenly logged-off or closed the terminal-emulator. It is generally run with the help of xterm or directly attached serial terminal. It can help running an infinite number of applications like the interactive command shells, text editors and curses based applications. Screen helps the computer in reading emails, compiling and editing codes, web hosting.

Tulip is a software system that displays graphs up to 500,000 elements called nodes and edges, which can be visualized comfortably in your personal computer. Tulip CVS helps people who are interested in plugins, documentations and writing extensions.

SPE is a free python IDE with auto indentation & completion, call tips, syntax coloring & highlighting, uml viewer, class explorer, source index, auto todo list, sticky notes, pycrust shell, file browsers, drag & drop, context help and Blender support. SPE has blender support with a blender 3D object browser and it is able to run interactively inside the blender.

Quicktime 4 Linux allows reading and writing uncompressed Quicktime movies on Linux. It is intended mainly for creating content and uncompressed movies. The software is used during the production phase of the movies, not the distribution phase. Quicktime 4 Linux provides improvements in color models support, bit depth, accuracy, reliability and codecs without stressing economy.

Code Forge IDE is an Integrated Development Environment for UNIX and Linux that offers full project management along with complete edit/compile/debug cycle support for more than 30 programming languages. The advanced project management features of this software enable it to scale from simple to extremely large and mixed-language as well as multi-user projects. Total integration between various IDE tools provides the programmer with unprecedented control over the development process.