Open Source Unix Shell Software for Desktop Operating Systems

Unix Shell Software for Desktop Operating Systems

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  • Auth for GenAI | Auth0 Icon
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    TurboVNC

    TurboVNC

    High-speed, 3D-friendly, TightVNC-compatible remote desktop software

    TurboVNC is a high-performance, enterprise-quality version of VNC based on TightVNC, TigerVNC, and X.org. It contains a variant of Tight encoding that is tuned for maximum performance and compression with 3D applications (VirtualGL), video, and other image-intensive workloads. TurboVNC, in combination with VirtualGL, provides a complete solution for remotely displaying 3D applications with interactive performance. TurboVNC's high-speed encoding methods have been adopted by TigerVNC and libvncserver, and TurboVNC is also compatible with any other TightVNC derivative. TurboVNC forked from TightVNC in 2004 and still covers all of the TightVNC 1.3.x features, but TurboVNC contains numerous feature enhancements and bug fixes relative to TightVNC, and it compresses 3D and video workloads much better than TightVNC while using generally only 5-20% of the CPU time of the latter. Using non-default settings, TurboVNC can also be made to compress 2D workloads as "tightly" as TightVNC.
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    Downloads: 157,967 This Week
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    VirtualGL

    VirtualGL

    3D Without Boundaries

    VirtualGL redirects 3D commands from a Unix/Linux OpenGL application onto a server-side GPU and converts the rendered 3D images into a video stream with which remote clients can interact to view and control the 3D application in real time.
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    Downloads: 86,171 This Week
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    MinGW-w64 - for 32 and 64 bit Windows

    A complete runtime environment for gcc

    The mingw-w64 project is a complete runtime environment for gcc to support binaries native to Windows 64-bit and 32-bit operating systems.
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    Downloads: 51,285 This Week
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    Pandora FMS: Flexible Monitoring System

    Pandora FMS: Flexible Monitoring System

    Open Source Monitoring System for performance and availability.

    Pandora FMS is an enterprise-ready monitoring solution that provides unparalleled flexibility for IT to address both immediate and unforeseen operational issues, including infrastructure and IT processes. It uniquely enables business and IT to adapt to changing needs through a flexible and rapid approach to IT and business deployment. Pandora FMS consolidates all the needs of modern monitoring (ITOM, APM, BAM) and provides status and performance metrics from different operating systems, cloud, virtual infrastructure (VMware, Hyper-V, XEN), Docker containers, applications, storage and hardware devices such as firewalls, proxies, databases, web servers or routers. It's highly scalable (up to 2000 nodes with one single server), 100% web and with multi-tenant capabilities. It has a very flexible ACL system and several different graphical reports and user-defined control screens.
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    Downloads: 2,333 This Week
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    Apcupsd is a program for monitoring UPSes and performing a graceful computer shutdown in the event of a power failure. It runs on Linux, Mac OS/X, Win32, BSD, Solaris, and other OSes.
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    Downloads: 520 This Week
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    Robolinux

    Robolinux

    MAX Privacy with Robolinux R12.12

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    Downloads: 344 This Week
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    The Heirloom Project provides standard Unix utilities.
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    Downloads: 1,491 This Week
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    empty

    Run applications under pseudo-terminal (PTY) sessions

    empty - run applications under pseudo-terminal (PTY) sessions to dialogue with interactive programs. Replace TCL/Expect with a simple tool and use your favorite shell (sh, bash, csh, tcsh, ksh, zsh, etc)
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    Downloads: 316 This Week
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    BRL-CAD

    BRL-CAD

    Open Source Solid Modeling CAD

    BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform constructive solid geometry solid modeling system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray-tracing for rendering & geometric analyses, network distributed framebuffer support, image & signal-processing tools.
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    Downloads: 130 This Week
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    bash debugger

    bash debugger

    A gdb-like debugger for bash
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    Downloads: 150 This Week
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    Grsync
    Grsync is used to synchronize folders, files and make backups. It is a rsync GUI (Graphical User Interface).
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    Downloads: 76 This Week
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    DocBook to LaTeX Publishing transforms your SGML/XML DocBook documents to DVI, PostScript or PDF by translating them in pure LaTeX as a first process. MathML 2.0 markups are supported too. It started as a clone of DB2LaTeX.
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    Downloads: 84 This Week
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    duply (simple duplicity)
    Duply is a shell front end for the duplicity backup tool https://duplicity.us . It simplifies the usage by implementing backup job profiles, batch commands and more. Secure backup to non-trusted file spaces made easy.
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    Downloads: 63 This Week
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    Munin
    Master/node to gather and graph "everything" on your systems using Tobi Oetiker's rrdtool. It can optionally warn your surveillance software. This software package was originally called LRRD. The project. Please see http://munin-monitoring.org/
    Downloads: 56 This Week
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    IndiMail
    Highly scalable/configurable Messaging Platform allowing users in a domain to be distributed on multiple hosts, has multiple queues. Provides virtual domains/users in MySQL. Modern MSP class qmail replacement with ESMTP, POP3/IMAP, QMTP, QMQP support
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    Downloads: 29 This Week
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    Converter of various scalable font formats (most notably TTF) and of the bitmapped BDF format into PostScript Type 1 fonts and metrics (.pfa, .pfb, .afm).
    Downloads: 46 This Week
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    owfs and owhttpd

    owfs and owhttpd

    Project moved to https://github.com/owfs/owfs/

    Please note that OWFS source code, and all Issue/Tickets/merge requests have now been moved to https://github.com/owfs/owfs/. Developer mailing lists will still be kept at Sourceforge. ---- OWFS -- 1-Wire file system. Use the Dallas 1-Wire and iButton chips with standard filesystem commands. Create temperature loggers. Monitor everything. OWHTTPD -- same system, only used as a light weight web server. OWFS is also ported to embedded routers, Mac OSX and Windows. Basically you can use these inexpensive little sensors and other chips with very simple wiring to sense and control the physical environment. The interface is very flexible -- everything from a web browser, to read and writing directly to the chip's "file" to integrating with your programs -- even over the internet. There is a growing number of 1-wire sensors: temperature, voltage, humidity, light, ultraviolet, pressure, thermisters, thermocouples, programmable microcontrollers, relays, lights, LCD panels, etc
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    p3d

    p3d

    General data-reduction tool for fiber-fed integral-field spectrographs

    p3d is a general data-reduction tool for use with fiber-fed integral-field spectrographs (IFSs); although, the spectrum viewer works with spectrum data cubes of any origin. The tool is built about the proprietary software IDL (Harris/EXELIS; see http://www.harrisgeospatial.com), but can be used without any license. Most slowly running loops are implemented in parallelized C (OpenMP).
    Downloads: 15 This Week
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    Tcl/Tk package distribution for 32-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems with additional open-source tools and libraries.
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    Downloads: 18 This Week
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    BGINFO4X - BGINFO for X and for Windows!

    BGINFO4X - BGINFO for X and for Windows!

    Shows desktop information on your screen

    BGINFO for X, also called BGINFO4X, is a clone of the popular program BGINFO for Microsoft Windows created by Sysinternals. BGINFO4X is designed for pretty print useful information (CPU model, Hostname, IP address, OS version, Office version, and much more ...) on your desktop background or wallpaper. See the screenshots to see BGINFO4X in action. BGINFO4X is Multi Platform (Windows, MacOSX, Linux, BSD). BGINFO4X is Highly Customizable. BGINFO4X is Open Source. BGINFO4X comes with lots of Features. See the main Features below on this page. Find more information in http://sourceforge.net/p/bginfo4x/wiki/BGINFO4X/
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    RefDB is a reference database and bibliography tool for SGML, XML, and LaTeX documents, sort of a Reference Manager or BibTeX for markup languages. It is portable and known to run on Linux, Free/NetBSD, OSX, Solaris, and Windows/Cygwin.
    Downloads: 17 This Week
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    vboxsvc - VirtualBox SMF service wrapper

    SMF service wrapper for VirtualBox under Solaris 10+ and OpenSolaris.

    SMF service wrapper for Sun/Oracle VirtualBox under Sun/Oracle Solaris 10+ and OpenSolaris builds (including OpenIndiana and illumos). Detailed project description is available in the README file: http://vboxsvc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vboxsvc/usr/share/doc/vboxsvc/README-vboxsvc.txt Discuss and get help in VirtualBox Forum thread "[Free as in beer] SMF service for VirtualBox VM's": https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=33249 A replica is hosted (and would likely be the HEAD of development soon) at https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxsvc See also https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxconfig_sh.git for tweaks needed to set up Oracle VirtualBox for Solaris packages (4.x, 5.0.x) on illumos hosts. For recent OpenIndiana and OmniOS (since 2019) there are packages provided by distributions, and these tweaks are not required then.
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    SaraB - Schedule And Rotate Automatic Backups. Supports the Towers of Hanoi, Grandfather-Father-Son, or any custom backup rotation strategy. Easy to use and highly configurable. SaraB utilizes the great backup program, DAR (Disk ARchive).
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    A complete OpenSource Network Management System Is SNMP-Standard Oriented (tested on Cisco and Linux). It Integrates Syslog, Tacacs, RRDtool (Performance Graphs), Maps, Traps, TFTP, Autodiscovery, Sound Alerts, AAA, Modular and Extensible.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    SaVi satellite constellation visualizer

    SaVi satellite constellation visualizer

    Earth orbits and satellite coverage display in 3D on your laptop.

    SaVi - simulate Starlink, Iridium, Globalstar, O3b, GPS, Galileo and other satellite constellations, modify them, or design your own. Requires Tcl/Tk and Unix libraries; 3D viewing option requires Geomview running on X Window.
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