The Parted Magic OS employs core programs from GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs including Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, and ddrescue and an excellent set of documentation to benefit the user. An extensive collection of fileystem tools are also included, and the following filesystems are supported: ext2, ext3, ext4, FAT16, FAT32, HFS, HFS+, JFS, Linux-swap, NTFS, ReiserRS, reiser4, and XFS. It loads completely to system memory and requires at least 256MB of RAM to operate.

Release Notes: A new Steampunk/Tron theme was included with two sizes and a probe for screen resolution, so it looks good on most machines.

Release Tags: Stable

Licenses: GPL

Fvwm-Nightshade aims to be a lightweight but feature rich and good looking configuration of Fvwm. It contains many useful things to make work and life easier with the flavor of a modern desktop, but it can be configured by the user. It is well documented.

Release Notes: Annoying flipping of the Global Iconman was fixed. Predefined menu settings were included.

Tags: Desktop Environment, FVWM

Licenses: GPL

Stabie Rand Editor is a reimplementation of the RAND text editor, a full screen editor that was written in the 70s and had such advanced capabilities as multiple windows and rectangular cut and paste areas. Keyboard commands are hard-coded.

Release Notes: This latest release expands the search command to allow case insensitive searches and glob-like searches using the ^, $, *, and ? special characters. The search mode is easily toggled by using the ^Q key. The code has been verified to run on the Raspberry Pi's ARM architecture.

Release Tags: Minor enhancement

Tags: text editor

Licenses: GPL

Digtwit is a very simple tool that checks for a hashtag (e.g. #digmia) in a user's friends feed on Twitter and retweets any messages mentioning that hashtag automatically. By following a user, you allow a user to be included in automatic retweets.

Release Notes: This version added support for the new Twitter API and upgraded all underlying libraries. It also uses new style retweets (without "RT ...").

Tags: Twitter

Licenses: Public Domain

NXWidgets is a graphical user interface package for the NuttX RTOS. It integrates seamlessly with the NuttX NX graphics subsystem in order to provide graphic objects, or "widgets". It is written entirely in C++ using only selected "embedded friendly" C++ constructs which are fully supported under NuttX. No additional C++ support libraries are required. It is tailored for use with MCUs in embedded applications. It is ideally suited for the mid-to-upper range of most MCU families. It will work on high-end frame buffer devices as well as on LCDs connected via serial or parallel ports to a small MCU. It will accept position and selection inputs from a mouse or a touchscreen. It will also support character input from a keyboard such as a USB keyboard. It supports a special widget called CKeypad which provides keyboard input via an on-screen keypad which can be operated via a mouse or touchscreen inputs. Some of the graphic objects supported by NXWidgets include labels, buttons, text boxes, button arrays, check boxes, cycle buttons, images, sliders, scrollable list boxes, and progress bars.

Release Notes: This release adds several new widgets intended to support an audio player, as well as improvements and bugfixes for several existing Widgets.

Tags: graphic library

Licenses: BSD Revised

Nuttx is a real-time embedded operating system (RTOS). It has a small footprint that is usable in micro-controller environments. It is fully scalable from tiny (8-bit) to moderate embedded (32-bit) systems. It also aims to be fully compliant to standards, to be fully real time, and to be totally open.

Release Notes: A new SMART FLASH file system, new drivers for segment LCDs, wireless modules, and LCDs, and support for lots of new boards: Atmel SAM4L Xplained Pro, Atmel SAM4L Xplained, MikroElektronika Mikromedia for STM32F4, the STMicro STM32L-Discovery, the STM32 Tiny boar, and the Pirelli DP-L10 phone.

Tags: Software Development, Embedded Systems, Operating Systems

Licenses: BSD Revised

python-stdnum is a Python module to parse, validate, and reformat standard numbers and codes in different formats. It supports a large number of number formats, including: ISBN (International Standard Book Number), ISSN (International Standard Serial Number), BSN (Burgerservicenummer, the Dutch national identification number), EAN (International Article Number), SSN (U.S. Social Security Number), IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity), IBAN (International Bank Account Number), and more.

Release Notes: This release adds a few files to the source tarball which were missing from the 0.8 release.

Tags: Python Modules, numbers

Licenses: LGPL

JPPF makes it easy to parallelize computationally intensive tasks and execute them on a Grid.

Release Notes: This maintenance release brings important bug fixes.

Release Tags: Major bugfixes

Tags: GRID, grid computing, cloud, cloud computing, Java, Parallel processing, Parallel Computing, Distributed Computing, Open Source

Licenses: Apache 2.0

Blink is a small public-access blog engine. It supports running multiple blogs. It displays a main page and links for accessing older posts. It allows a reader to search for posts. Each blog can be oldest post first or newest post first. Any blog can be set to take public posts or allow comments. Admin functions include archiving all blogs and the viewing and deleting of new posts and comments. Posts can also utilize a semiotic bolding of definitions and automatic linking to all definitions. All functionality is in one CGI file under 10 kb.

Release Notes: Blink's "next" link now loads a full page of $COUNT entries. Ephemera adds the remote client's IP address to its log.

Tags: CGI Tools/Libraries, blogging, blog engine, cgi

Licenses: GPL

CuteMarkEd is a MarkDown editor with live HTML previews, math expressions, and source code and MarkDown syntax highlighting.

Release Notes: This major release contains several new features: a recent file menu, syntax highlighting for HTML source, fullscreen mode, Markdown syntax help, and several more improvements. This version fixes a major packaging bug on Windows that prevented the application from working when Qt wasn't installed separately.

Release Tags: Major

Tags: markdown, Editor

Licenses: GPLv2

Awlsim is a Step 7 AWL/STL/PLC simulator. It achieves good performance of several tens of thousands of AWL instructions per second. S7-3xx and S7-4xx CPUs (with 2 and 4 accus) are supported.

Release Notes: Support for English mnemonics was added.

Tags: awl, STL, sps, PLC, Step7, siemens, emulator

Licenses: GPL

Plone is a content management system that is simple to set up, maintain, and modify. It is designed to be a corporate-ready content management system. It is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document/Web publishing system, and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities. It aims to be a proper content management and publishing system, sharing the same qualities as Teamsite, Livelink, and Documentum.

Release Notes: Dexterity and a theming editor are now included. Syndication was improved. TinyMCE has been updated.

Tags: Internet, Web, Dynamic Content, Site Management, Documentation, education, Information Management, Document Repositories, Metadata/Semantic Models, Workflow Frameworks, Office/Business, groupware

Licenses: GPL

jOpenDocument is a pure Java library for manipulation of OASIS Open Document files. jOpenDocument is a library for developers looking to use Open Document files without OpenOffice.org. You can use jOpenDocument to generate dynamic documents from Java, XML, or databases; to display and print files with built-in viewers; to split, concatenate, and manipulate pages; to automate filling out of templates; and to use your preferred langage via the standard ScriptEngine interface.

Release Notes: This is the new major version of jOpenDocument. If you are using a previous version, the authors strongly encourage you to update.

Tags: Software Development, Libraries, Java Libraries

Licenses: GPLv3

nimsg (the Network Instant MeSsenGer) is a compact, server-based chat program. Its features include the ability to chat with more than one person at the same time, the ability to post multiple times in a row, and the ability to let users choose their in-chat nicknames. It can be used as an alternative for IRC, for those times where you just want to have a small, local chat room.

Release Notes: This is the first release.

Release Tags: Major, cli, Stable

Tags: python 2.x, instant messaging, Internet

Licenses: MIT/X

XWiki is a WikiWiki clone written in Java that supports many popular features of other Wikis like the Wiki syntax, version control, attachments, security, and searching, but also many advanced features like templates, database and dynamic development using scripting languages (Velocity, Groovy, Ruby, Python, PHP, and more), an extension system and skinability, J2EE scalability, an XML/RPC remote API, statistics, RSS feeds, PDF exporting, WYSIWYG editing, an Office viewer and importer, and a lot more.

Release Notes: This release brings automatic Solr indexing with locale inheritance, as well as a couple of bugfixes and other small improvements.

Release Tags: 5.1

Tags: Information Management, Document Repositories, Internet, Web, Dynamic Content, Site Management

Licenses: LGPL 2.1

getlock is a command-line lockfile utility that uses 'fcntl' style locks, which release if the program exits. getlock normally locks one or more files and then runs a command, but it can be run without a command in order to just lock the files. It can also run a command if all the locks cannot be made, kill off current lock owners, write a PID to a lock file, and background, but still keep the lock, for use in shell scripts.

Release Notes: This release adds the -v/-version command line flag and -n/-nohup command line flags.

Tags: Command-line, locking

Licenses: GPL

PDO4You is a class that implements the Singleton design pattern for connecting the database using the PDO extension (PHP Data Objects). It provides an abstraction layer for accessing data, regardless of which database you are using, and ensures that there is a single object instance per database connection. It can connect to several possible SQL databases using the available PDO drivers. Currently it supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, Microsoft SQL server, Sybase, and CUBRID (a database highly optimized for Web applications). The class can also execute multiple queries at once given a string in JSON format that specifies the type of query, the tables, fields, field values, conditions, etc.

Release Notes: This release adds SQLite databases and a class for paging.

Release Tags: SQLite, paging, paginator

Tags: PDO, CRUD, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, php-classes, PHP, singleton, postgresql, SQLite, MSSQL, Sybase, cubrid

Licenses: GPLv3

Fimex is a the File Interpolation, Manipulation, and EXtraction library for gridded geospatial data. It converts between different, extensible data formats (currently netcdf, NcML, grib1/2, metgm, wdb, and felt). It enables you to change the projection and interpolation of scalar and vector grids. It makes it possible to subset the gridded data and to extract only parts of the files. For simple usage, Fimex also comes with the command line program fimex.

Release Notes: This version will warn when old grib configuration files are used, but will continue to work.

Release Tags: Minor bugfixes

Tags: Scientific/Engineering, Geographical, Physics

Licenses: LGPL

crackxls2003 breaks the encryption on Microsoft Excel XP/2002/2003 files which have been encrypted using the RC4 method. These files are encrypted using a 40-bit-long key. It will not work on files encrypted using later versions or versions 8.0 or earlier.

Release Notes: This release adds support for Microsoft Word documents. It will work for documents encrypted using the default method for Word versions 97-2003.

Tags: encryption, excel, word, Microsoft, Office, Spreadsheet, word processor

Licenses: GPLv3

milter manager is a flexible and low administrative cost anti-spam system that can be used with MTAs that support milters like Sendmail and Postfix. It provides an effective solution by combining a range of existing milters.

Release Notes: This release provides a new package for Ubuntu Raring Ringtail and Debian jessie. For CentOS6 or later, it provides a milter manager built with Ruby 1.9.3 and a Ruby 1.9.3 package.

Release Tags: Bugfixes, Minor

Tags: anti-virus, milter, Mail, SPAM

Licenses: GPLv3, LGPL, AGPL, Public Domain