Open Source Software Reviews

Sympa is a highly customizable and scalable open source software that can handle big list of emails and provides a nice web based user interface for administrator and user of the software.

This software is internationalized and is available in 15 different languages. Bulk email facility is available with it and templates are available for service messages and web pages. Sympa uses a RDBMS to store the subscriber’s information. It gives S/MIME support for verifying the signature and encryption of emails. It has the automated management to handle the bounced emails, antivirus mechanism and various Web Authentication mechanisms.

Lumenation is a fast executing, browser based data portal system that provides a framework for internet/intranet applications and systems. Lumenation and all it’s components provide extremely fast execution speeds and the ability to operate in conjunction with any network or desktop operating system.

LaTex is a document preparation system for the Tex typesetting program. It offers programmable desktop publishing features and extensive facilities for automating most aspects of typesetting and desktop publishing, including numbering and cross-referencing, tables and figures, page layout, bibliographies, and much more. LaTex is a macro package, which sits on top of Tex and provides all the structuring facilities to help with writing large documents. Latex was originally written in 1984 by Leslie Lamport.

GForge is a software for collaborative development for the software community. It provides a full configured development system with versioning, a project web site and tools for comunication between members of a development team. The tools provided by GForge allow the team members to comunicate and organize their work effectively. This allows the creation of a knowledgebase. GForge automatically creates a repository and controls access to it depending on the role settings of the project.

PhpAdsNew is a complete ad server, which is used today on a large number of websites throughout the world. It is a banner management and tracking system written in PHP. Currently PhpAdsNew can manage multiple banners (any size) per advertiser, view daily, overall and summary statistics and send statistics to advertisers via email. With phpAdsNew you can easily rotate paid banners and your own in-house advertisements. You can even integrate banners from third party advertising companies.

CinePaint is a computer program to paint on and retouch bitmap frames of movies. It is used for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching and dust-busting. It is a free software used and distributed under the terms of GNU General Public License. The developers of CinePaint claim that it is the most successful open source tool for featuring motion picture work today. Its studio developers include Rhythm & Hues, Sony Pictures Imageworks, DreamWorks and ILM.

Aladdinghostscript is a open source software for printing purpose in Unix system. It is actually used to process Postscript and PDF files. The function of this software is to reorganize the documents in such a manner that they suit perfectly with different printing devices, different image file formats and screen previews.

GNU grep is a tool that searches the input files for lines containing a match to a given pattern list. When it finds a match in a line, it copies the line to standard output (by default), or does whatever other type of output have been requested by the users with options.

The Sun Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) provides a complete environment for application development on desktops and servers and for deployment in embedded environments. It also acts as the base for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and java Web Services. J2SE contains the essential compilers, tools, runtime libraries and APIs for the developers to write, deploy and run applets and applications in the Java programming language.

The e2fsprogs package contains filesystem utilities for use with ext2 filesystem. It contains utilities for creating, checking, modifying and correcting any inconsistencies in second extended or ex2 filesystems. The software also supports ext3 filesystem with journaling support. The latest version of this software is e2fsprogs 1.38, which contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous releases. .