Open Source Software Reviews

QCad is an application for computer aided drafting in two dimensions. This software lets you create various types of technical drawings such as plans for buildings, drawings for interior decoration and two-dimensional drawing of any mechanical parts. QCad was designed aiming to provide modularity, extensibility and portability in the software. However, the instinctive user interface is quite popular among the users.

Net SNMP is an application suite used to implement SNMP v1, SNMP v2c and SNMP v3 using both IPv4 and IPv6. SNMP or Simple Network Management Protocol is a widely used protocol for monitoring the health and welfare of network equipment (e.g. routers), and computer equipments or devices like UPSs.

NEdit is a multipurpose text editor for the X Window System, combined with a standard, easy-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI) with thorough functionality and stability for the users. NEdit provides intensive support for development in a wide variety of languages, text processors, and other tools.

Endeavour Mark II is a complete file management suite. It is the most practical way of managing your UNIX files. The software comes with a File Browser, Image Browser, Archiver, Recycled Object System and a set of File and Disk Management Utility programs.

Bugzilla is a bug tracking or defect tracking system that allows keeping track of outstanding bugs in a product. It tracks bugs and code changes, communicates with the teammates, submit and review patches and manage quality assurance (QA) of the product. Bugzilla is a tool that helps your team get organized and communicate effectively.

zip is a compression and file packaging utility, which is analogous to a combination of the UNIX commands tar and compress and is compatible with PKZIP, the ZIP for MSDOS systems. The zip utility is useful for packaging a set of files for distribution; for archiving files and for saving disk space by temporarily compressing unused files or directories.

Whois is an online directory that contains personal information about Internet domain name holders. It was designed in the early 1980s as a network accessible database of hosts and IP addresses. But today all the domain name owners must update the Whois directory with their information – personal as well as detail domain information.

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.

Metadot is an easy to use open source portal system. It allows everybody to build websites – even a non-technical person can create a powerful website and portal just with a few mouse clicks with Metadot. The architecture of this software makes it extremely easy to customize and deploy. Metadot provides collaboration, content management, My News Page and online database applications. Metadot is typically used to create web portals, intranets, extranets, and organization and project websites.

Firebird is a relational database comprising many ANSI SQL-99 features that runs on Linux, Windows and various UNIX platforms. This software provides excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. Since 1981, Firebird is in use in production systems under different names.