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    Library and command line tools for XZ and LZMA compressed files
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    NSIS: Nullsoft Scriptable Install System

    NSIS: Nullsoft Scriptable Install System

    Windows installer development tool

    NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. Being a user's first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software. NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more.
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    Downloads: 6,478 This Week
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    The goal of the project is now to develop a user library called libpfm4 to help setup performance events for use with the perf_events Linux kernel interface. The development of the perfmon kernel subsystem, libpfm and pfmon has now stopped.
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    Downloads: 8,229 This Week
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    libusb

    libusb

    A cross-platform library that gives apps easy access to USB devices

    Library to enable user space application programs to communicate with USB devices
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    Downloads: 5,082 This Week
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    Expect is a tool for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect is also useful for testing these same applications.
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    Downloads: 3,826 This Week
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    *NOTE* Migrated to http://github.com/cracklib/cracklib Next generation version of libCrack password checking library. As of Oct 2008 (reflected in 2.8.15 code release), licensed under LGPL.
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    Downloads: 3,235 This Week
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    log4cplus

    log4cplus

    Logging Framework for C++

    log4cplus is a simple to use C++ logging API providing thread-safe, flexible, and arbitrarily granular control over log management and configuration. It is modelled after the Java log4j API.
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    Downloads: 1,924 This Week
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    XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for text files with UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc utilities.
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    Downloads: 1,012 This Week
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    Snap7

    Snap7

    32/64 bit multi-platform Ethernet S7 PLC communication suite

    Snap7, through three specialized components: Client and the inedited Server and Partner, allows you to definitively integrate your PC based systems into a PLC automation chain. Designed to transfer large amounts of hi-speed data in industrial facilities, it scales easily, down to small Linux Arm boards such as Raspberry PI. Hi level object oriented wrappers are provided, currently C/C++, .NET/Mono, Pascal, LabVIEW, Python with many source code examples. Very easy to use, a full working server example is not bigger than the “Hello world”. Many projects/makefiles are ready to run to easily rebuild Snap7 in any platform without the need of be a C++ guru. Very detailed documentation provided.
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    Downloads: 961 This Week
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    s3cmd

    s3cmd

    Command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront services

    Open-source tool to access Amazon S3 file storage. S3cmd is a free command line tool and client for uploading, retrieving and managing data in Amazon S3 and other cloud storage service providers that use the S3 protocol, such as Google Cloud Storage. Lots of features and options have been added to s3cmd since its very first release in 2008.... we recently counted more than 60 command line options, including multipart uploads, encryption, incremental backup, s3 sync, ACL and Metadata management, S3 bucket size, bucket policies, and more!
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    Downloads: 1,330 This Week
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    RHash
    RHash (Recursive Hasher) is a console utility for computing and verifying hash sums of files. It supports CRC32, CRC32C, MD4, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, SHA3, AICH, ED2K, DC++ TTH, BTIH, Tiger, GOST R 34.11-2012, RIPEMD-160, HAS-160, EDON-R, and Whirlpool.
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    Downloads: 1,022 This Week
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    Rekado

    Rekado

    Payload launcher and serial number checker for Nintendo Switch

    Payload launcher is written in Kotlin for Nintendo Switch. The application doesn't require Root on your device.
    Downloads: 129 This Week
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    Linux Test Project

    Testsuite to validate the reliability, robustness, stability of Linux.

    Linux Test Project (LTP) is a joint project started by SGI, OSDL and Bull developed and maintained by SUSE, Red Hat, Fujitsu, IBM, Cisco, Oracle and others. The project goal is to deliver tests to the open source community that validate reliability, robustness, and stability of the Linux Kernel. The testing suites contain a collection of tools for testing the Linux kernel and related features. Our goal is to improve the Linux kernel and system libraries by bringing test automation.
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    Downloads: 978 This Week
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    Launch4j Executable Wrapper
    Cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. Provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.
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    Downloads: 3,373 This Week
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    OpenOCD - Open On-Chip Debugger

    The Open On-Chip Debugger

    The "Open On-Chip Debugger" provides JTAG/SWD access from GDB (or directly with TCL scripts) to processors with ARM and MIPS based cores. See website for full list of supported targets.
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    Downloads: 459 This Week
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    JBoss Community
    Community driven projects featuring the latest innovations for cutting edge apps. Our flagship project JBoss AS is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, Java EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java.
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    Downloads: 254 This Week
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    Integrated Development Environment for some microcontrollers based on 8051(e.g. AT89S8253). Supported languages are Assembly and C. It has its own simulator, assembler, editor and many other tools. See the project web site for more details and the newest updates.
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    Downloads: 352 This Week
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    CLISP - an ANSI Common Lisp
    CLISP is a portable ANSI Common Lisp implementation and development environment by Bruno Haible. Interpreter, compiler, debugger, CLOS, MOP, FFI, Unicode, sockets, CLX. UI in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, and Danish.
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    Downloads: 286 This Week
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    ooRexx (Open Object Rexx)
    Home of the Open Object Rexx Project. ooRexx is the open source version of IBM's Object REXX Interpreter. It is upwardly compatible with classic REXX and will execute classic REXX programs unchanged. The project is managed by the Rexx Language Association.
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    Downloads: 219 This Week
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    Allows editing of any size file in hexadecimal, decimal and ASCII. A great tool that allows you to edit and analyze the contents for either the data or resource fork of any type of file. 68K, PPC and Carbon run on MacOS 7-9 and X.
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    Downloads: 268 This Week
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    tkdiff

    tkdiff

    Side-by-side diff viewer, editor and merge preparer

    tkdiff is a graphical front end to the diff program. It provides a side-by-side view of the differences between two text files, along with several innovative features such as diff bookmarks, a graphical map of differences for quick navigation, and a facility for slicing diff regions to achieve exactly the merge output desired.
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    Downloads: 189 This Week
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    A library of C++ classes for flexible logging to files (rolling), syslog, IDSA and other destinations. It is modeled after the Log for Java library (http://www.log4j.org), staying as close to their API as is reasonable. Platforms: Linux, Windows (VS2010). New: DailyRollingFileAppender
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    Downloads: 494 This Week
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    This is Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) CLDC/MIDP Emulator. Allows demonstrate MIDlet based applications in web browser applet, also can be run as standalone java application.
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    Downloads: 157 This Week
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    Featureless Linux Library

    Featureless Linux Library

    Linux Library on top of Libc focusing on long term support.

    When computer power increases, programmers generally add more "features", thus making any performance gains in new hardware negligible. This project is an attempt to develop a library above libc that breaks out of this terrible loop.
    Downloads: 406 This Week
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    SocketTest - powerful and small software tool for socket testing. It can create both TCP and UDP client or server. It can be used to test any server or client that uses TCP or UDP protocol to communicate.
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    Downloads: 140 This Week
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