Friday, March 30, 2007

Front-end for Mplayer. GPL

SMPlayer 0.3.0 intends to be a complete front-end for Mplayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for Mplayer filters and more. One of the main features is the ability to remember the state of a played file, so when you play it later it will resume at the same point and with the same settings. SMPlayer is developed with the Qt toolkit, so it's multi-platform. An executable for Windows is also available.

Thursday, March 29, 2007

I/O tool meant to be used both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. GPL

fio 1.15 is an I/O tool meant to be used both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. It has support for 9 different types of I/O engines (sync, mmap, libaio, posixaio, SG v3, splice, null, network, syslet), I/O priorities (for newer Linux kernels), rate I/O, forked or threaded jobs, and much more. It can work on block devices as well as files. fio accepts job descriptions in a simple-to-understand text format. Several example job files are included. fio displays all sorts of I/O performance information. It supports Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

The sysstat package contains the sar, sadf, iostat and mpstat, commands for Linux. GPL

sysstat 7.1.3 package contains the sar, sadf, iostat and mpstat, commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. The sadf command may be used to display data collected by sar in various formats (XML, database-friendly, etc.). The iostat command reports CPU statistics and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The mpstat command reports global and per-processor statistics. The information collected by sar can be saved in a file in a binary format for future inspection. The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related activites, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities, and TTY statistics, among others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

View one or multiple files like the original tail program. GPL

MultiTail 4.3.4 lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). Merging of 2 or more log files is possible. It can also use colors while displaying the log files (through regular expressions) for faster recognition of what is important. It can also filter lines (again with regular expressions). It has interactive menus for editing given regular expressions and deleting and adding windows. One can also have windows with the output of shell scripts and other software. When viewing the output of external software, MultiTail can mimic the functionality of tools like 'watch'.

Monday, March 19, 2007

GUI CD image editor for Linux and BSD. GPL

Bezpłatne programy, darmowe, za darmo, gratis - wyszukiwanie i nowości.: "ISO Master 0.8.1 is an easy to use GUI CD image editor for Linux and BSD. Basically, you can use this program to extract files from an ISO, add files to an ISO, and create bootable ISOs, all in a graphical user interface. It can open both ISO and NRG files, but can only save as ISO. It is based on bkisofs, a library for reading, modifying, and writing ISO images."

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Video effects, editing, conversion, and playback system. GPL

LiVES 0.9.8.3 is a simple to use yet powerful video effects, editing, conversion, and playback system aimed at the digital video artist and VJ. It uses commonly available tools (Mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+), so it should work on most Unix-like systems. It runs under Linux, BSD, Mac OS X/Darwin, IRIX, and openMosix. It works with almost all types of video, and is fully extendable through plugins and the included plugin builder tool.

Friday, March 16, 2007

MPlayer

Linux dla kinomanów - PC World Komputer: "Aby dostosować Linuksa do potrzeb prawdziwego kinomana, musi być on zaopatrzony we wszechstronny odtwarzacz wideo. Jednym z najpopularniejszych jest MPlayer. Jego możliwości dają mu znaczną przewagę nad większością narzędzi tego typu. Obsługuje takie formaty jak MPEG/VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA. Daje to możliwość oglądania plików VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 i nawet WMV, który króluje w aplikacji Windows Media Player. "

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

CHM (Winhelp) files viewer written in Qt/ KDE. GPL

KchmViewer 3.0 is a CHM (Winhelp) files viewer written in Qt/ KDE. It can be build as a stand-alone Qt-based application or a KDE application. The main point is compatibility with non-English CHM files, including most international character sets. It has the features set of standard viewer: search (including non-English CHMs), bookmarking, font size changing, index/content browsing, codepage support, and more.

Monday, March 05, 2007

KDE TV guide. GPL

Maxemum TV-Guide 7.3.2 is a KDE TV guide. It features an easy-to- use user interface, quick channel(s)-only selection, descriptions, automatic hiding, favourite show highlighting, real-time updates with colour encoded time, automatic grabbing of TV listings, a popup window alerting the user when favourite show starts, execution of an external command upon user alerts, and more.

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Debian is an operating system for your computer that consists only of Free Software

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r5 (Default branch)
Debian is an operating system for your computer that consists only of Free Software. It uses the Linux kernel, and a large part of the basic tools that fill out the operating system come from GNU, which are also free. It comes with thousands of packages.