Computer users often find occasion to ask how two files differ. Perhaps one file is a newer version of the other file. Or maybe the two files started out as identical copies but were changed by different people.You can use the diff command to show differences between two files, or each correspon....Read More

LVM2 is a new userspace toolset that provide logical volume management facilities on linux.It is reasonably backwards-compatible with the original LVM toolset.To use LVM2 you need 3 things: device-mapper in your kernel, the userspace device-mapper support library (libdevmapper) and the userspace....Read More

dos2unix includes utilities to convert text files with DOS line endings to Unix line endings and vice versa. It is an update of Benjamin Lin's implementations. Find two packages - dos2unix and unix2dos - in the files section.dos2unix also includes mac2unix, a tool that converts Mac text files (p....Read More

Makagiga is a powerful, easy-to-use, cross-platform application for doing a variety of tasks, such as todo listing, feed reading, text editing and simple image editing/viewing.Plugins are used to implement its various capabilities. It can perform file import/export, backing up files into a zip f....Read More

python-mode.el is an Emacs and XEmacs mode for editing, debugging, and developing Python programs.Developer commentsPlease note that this is different than the python.el that comes by default in FSF Emacs. python-mode.el predates python.el by many years. If you'd like to help merge the two modes....Read More

Gant is a tool for scripting Ant tasks with Groovy.Ant uses XML as the notation for specifying a build, this means it is very difficult to specify easily anything but the simplest of builds. Gant is a way of working with all the Ant tasks, but using a Groovy script instead of XML to specify the ....Read More

LVM2 is a new userspace toolset that provide logical volume management facilities on linux.It is reasonably backwards-compatible with the original LVM toolset.To use LVM2 you need 3 things: device-mapper in your kernel, the userspace device-mapper support library (libdevmapper) and the userspace....Read More

Mylyn-Mantis Repository Connector is an Eclipse Mylyn Repository plug-in for the Mantis Bug Tracking application using the Mantis Connect SOAP interface. This Repository Connector is beta quality. For the most part it works as advertised, it just needs testing and some refinements added.Known co....Read More

KShutDown is an advanced shutdown utility for KDE. It has 4 main commands: Shut Down (logout and halt the system), Reboot (logout and reboot the system), Lock Screen (lock the screen using a screen saver), and Logout (end the session and logout the user).KShutDown features time and delay options....Read More

DeTraS provides several tools to track development activities by registering applications that developers use on a X Window session.DeTraS also allows you to send collected data to a server and takes care about your privacy. The idea behind DeTraS is taken from Timeline, a shell script written b....Read More

gnome-games-extra-data package contains extra data files for the gnome-games package. At the moment this is almost entirely extra themes and artwork for the games.The package has no dependencies. Currently you need gnome-games to take advantage of this artwork, but hopefully in the future this a....Read More

Orca project a scriptable screen reader that is currently under development. As such it is highly unstable and undergoes frequent changes. To read more about Orca, please refer to the Orca documentation series available in the ./docs/doc-set directory. Requirements:
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The krb5-auth-dialog package offers a simple dialog to monitor kerberos tickets, and pops up a dialog when they are about to expire. Eventually, we expect it to be part of GNOME.Configuration:Configuration settings are handled via gconf.You can set the principal that is used to acquire tickets v....Read More

Live F1 is a native Linux client for viewing the information feed of the official Formula-1 Web site without the need of a Java-enabled browser.Live-F1 displays the live timing information from the track side during qualifying, races, and practice sessions. An account on formula1.com is still re....Read More

PS3 Media Server is a DLNA compliant UPnP Media Server for the PlayStation 3 gaming console, written in Java, with the purpose of streaming or transcoding any kind of media files, with minimum configuration. It's backed up with the powerful Mplayer/FFmpeg packages.Transcoding on Linux: HOWTO&nbs....Read More

Prodigy Calculator is a simple calculator with all the standard functions and an easy GUI (Graphical User Interface). Requirements: · Python · pygame

zenity is a rewrite of gdialog, the GNOME port of dialog which allows you to display dialog boxes from the commandline and shell scripts.If you understand, things are just as they are. If you don't understand, things are just as they are.The simplest way to compile this package is:1. `cd' to the....Read More

Plymouth Manager is an application written in Gambas by an italian Ubuntu user, called Mefrio, that can help you in the configuration of your Plymouth graphical boot. Requirements: · Gambas 2 ....Read More

Enhydra JaWE (Java Workflow Editor) is the first open source graphical Java workflow process editor fully according to WfMC specifications supporting XPDL as its native file format.Enhydra JaWE project can be used to edit / view every XPDL file which conforms to WfMC XPDL specifications and is a....Read More

Enhydra Shark project delivers a workflow server with a difference. The project is an embeddable and extendable Java Open Source workflow engine framework including a standard implementation completely based on WfMC specifications using XPDL (without any proprietary extensions !) as its native w....Read More