Software Map

PLATYPUX is a Linux distribution which uses methods from LFS and BLFS (Linux From Scratch). You can set up the system on a PC, a laptop, or a USB key. Its graphical interface is implemented with XFCE. It's easily transportable. Tools like LibreOffice, Gimp, Xsane, SRWare Iron, Inkscape, OpenShot, Xfburn, Peazip, and JavaMPlayer are already installed.

MirBSD originated as a patch set against OpenBSD-current, an ultra secure operating system and NetBSD derivate, and has since also incorporated changes from NetBSD, a 4.4BSD-derived ultra portable operating system. It features bugfixes, code removal for the sake of simplicity, and feature enhancements over stock OpenBSD as well as a much more up-to-date GNU toolchain, careful integration of patches from other projects (such as KAME), and many improvements. It works on the Intel Pentium and some 80486 machines with more than 32 MiB RAM and the SPARC, and a port to the PowerPC Macintosh is in preparation.

TurnKey PostgreSQL Appliance is a server appliance for PostgreSQL, a fully-featured object-relational database with many enterprise features: ACID transactions, inheritance, Unicode, and strong support for the SQL-92 standard including subqueries, views, outer joins, foreign keys, sequences, and triggers. It is designed to be easy to use and easy to maintain. Security patches are automatically installed. It provides a Web management interface, configuration console, and an AJAX Web shell. To minimize footprint the appliance is built from the ground up with the minimum required components. It runs everywhere thanks to multiple build formats, including an installable live CD, a VMDK with OVF support, and an Amazon EC2 AMI.

Astaro Portscan Detection is a netfilter target which will attempt to detect TCP and UDP port scans and log them to syslog. This target is based upon Solar Designer's scanlogd. It suppports mutliple levels of logging, custom prefixes for entries, weighted total port scan detection, and port scan temporal spread detection.

ZThread is an advanced object-oriented threading
and synchronization library, implemented in C++
for POSIX, MacOS, and Win32 systems. It provides
an excellent and powerful abstraction from native
threads. It includes interruptible thread objects
and several other synchronization control objects.

LooperNG is an intelligent event routing daemon.
Primarily used for Network Management, this
application can be used to accomplish a variety of
tasks related to logging and alerting such as trap
forwarding/exploding, event enrichment, converting
event formats (syslog->SNMP, SNMP->flatfile,
syslog->Netcool), etc. It uses a system of input
and output modules to interface with the event
sources/sinks and a "rules file" to control the
flow of the events.

The Project Akita OS (Orange OS) was started with the intent to design a lightweight operating system. It contains a small kernel designed for those interested in the low-level, practical aspects of building an x86 system. The host development environment is designed to work around the Bochs x86 emulator, so that you can easily test changes to the kernel.

The main goal of Linux Layer7 Switching is to
provide a fast framework for Layer 7 switching.
Layer 7 switching is driving a low-level engine
using networking design to speed up forwarding of
the data stream. The implementation in this
project is split into a userspace daemon and a
low-level kernelspace forwarding engine. The
userspace daemon is responsible for scheduling and
switching decisions. The kernelspace forwarding
engine is responsible for forwarding the stream
and using a TCP splicing scheme. TCP splicing is
the postponement of the connection between the
client and the server in order to obtain
sufficient information to make a routing decision.

CD-R/W discs can be written with a technique called packet or incremental writing. This allows transparent and buffer-underrun-free recording for CD recorders that support this method. No more mastering of .iso images; just mount your CD-ROM read/write and copy files directly to it.

SMATCH is a neat program designed to locate programming errors in any open source software project. Right now it is actively used to screen out errors inside the Linux kernel. There are two main parts to Smatch. The first is a patch to the gcc sources to screen out a lot of useful information. The second part is a collection of Perl scripts and libraries to analyze the information and report the findings.