Text to speech engine for good quality English and other languages. GPL

freshmeat.net: "eSpeak is a compact text to speech engine for good quality English and other languages. Its clear articulation and good intonation makes it suitable for listening to long text articles. It can speak text files from the command line, and also operates as a 'talker' within the KDE TTS system and with a Gnome Speech driver, as an alternative to Festival or other similar programs. A Windows SAPI5 version is also available."

Replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat, nfsstat, and ifstat. GPL

freshmeat.net: "dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat, nfsstat, and ifstat. It includes various counters (in separate plugins) and allows you to select and view all of your system resources instantly; you can, for example, compare disk usage in combination with interrupts from your IDE controller, or compare the network bandwidth numbers directly with the disk throughput (in the same interval)."

Present a variety of questions or display messages using dialog boxes from a shell script. GPL

cdialog 1.1-20070409 allows you to present a variety of questions or display messages using dialog boxes from a shell script. Several types of dialog boxes are implemented including: calendar, checklist, file-selection, gauge, info, input, menu, message, radiolist, tailbox, text, time, yes/no.

Media-driven system for easy movie and audio playback, image viewing, game playing or watching TV. GPL

freshmeat.net: "My Media System is a media-driven system for easy movie and audio playback, image viewing, game playing or watching TV. It supports many common file formats, including MP3, OGG, DivX, XviD, VCD, SVCD, DVD, JPEG, PNG, and GIF. It is controlled using a remote control, USB device, or keyboard. It supports DXR3, DVB, X11, SDL, and framebuffer output."

Implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. LGPL

Wine 0.9.34 is an implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. It does not require Microsoft Windows, but can use native Windows DLLs if they are available. It provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes.