Software Map

Arachne is program that implements Avidan and Shamir's seam carving technique for content-aware image resizing. It allows realtime, fluid image resizing using this fascinating technique. Seam carving works by removing the "boring bits" from an image, so it can change the aspect ratio of many images without changing the shape of the objects inside.

The Linux-Mobile-Guide (formerly called the Laptop-HOWTO) is a guide covering laptop, notebook, PDA, and mobile phone related Linux features, such as installation methods (via network interface, without CD/DVD drive, etc.), hardware features (PCMCIA, IrDA, Bluetooth, APM, ACPI, etc.), and configurations for different environments.

pyRadar is retrieves and displays radar images
from NOAA's NEXRAD radar stations, which are
located around the United States and its
territories. These images are released into the
public domain on behalf of the American public.

The Medicine-HOWTO provides pointers to Linux software (mostly GPLed) for medical sciences.

This is a HOWTO that explains some of the more
advanced features of SSH, including the use of
public-key cryptography and ssh-agent.

Check is a unit test framework for C. It features a simple interface for defining unit tests, putting little in the way of the developer. Tests are run in a separate address space, so Check can catch both assertion failures and code errors that cause segmentation faults or other signals. The output from unit tests can be used within source code editors and IDEs.

Zoem is a general-purpose macro/programming language that submits text to a two-stage transformation process. Macro expansion and interpretation is followed by application of customizable character filtering rules. Zoem supports inside-out evaluation, comprehensive IO, control operators, iteration, dictionary stacks, multidimensional data storage, arithmetic expressions, regular expressions, system commands, and more.

The Infrared-HOWTO (formerly known as the
IR-HOWTO) is an introduction to Linux and infrared
devices and how to use the software provided by
the Linux/IrDA project. This package uses IrDA(TM)
compliant standards. Remote Control (RC) via
infrared is not the aim of the project, though
this topic is partly treated in the HOWTO.

Savane is a Web-based Free Software hosting
system, originally based on SourceForge 2.0. It
currently includes issue tracking, project and
member management, mailing lists, and individual
account maintenance. The issue tracking handles
bugs, tasks, and support. The issue tracker's
fields ware configurable in many ways: mandatory
of not, shown to users according to their role in
a group, and with transition management.

The Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO document guides you through the installation of the Postfix mail transportation agent (MTA) and the Cyrus IMAP server. The goal is a fully functional high-performance mail system with user administration via Web-cyradm, a Web interface. Data like virtual users, aliases, etc., are stored in a MySQL database.

Bless is a fast and customizable hex editor written in GTK#.
It efficiently handles very large files and supports multiple
undo-redo actions. There are also plans for the addition of a
Lua-based scripting language for binary file manipulation.