Jan 16, 2017 

Projects of the Week, January 16, 2017

Here are the featured projects for the week, which appear on the front page of SourceForge.net:

NAS4Free
The NAS4Free operating system can be installed on virtually any hardware platform to share computer data storage over a computer network. ‘NAS’ as in “Network-Attached Storage” and ‘4Free’ as in ‘Free and open source’, NAS4Free is the simplest and fastest way to create an centralized and easily-accessible server for all kinds of data! NAS4Free supports sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems. It includes ZFS, Software RAID (0,1,5), disk encryption, S.M.A.R.T / email reports etc. with following protocols/services: CIFS/SMB (samba), Samba AD, FTP, NFS v4, TFTP, AFP, RSYNC, Unison, iSCSI, UPnP, Bittorent, Syncthing, VirtualBox and noVNC, Bridge, CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) and HAST (Highly Available Storage). This all can easy be managed by a configurale webinterface.
[ Download NAS4Free ]


KaOSx
An independent small, rolling distribution, fully focused on KDE/Qt. Using pacman as package-manager.
[ Download KaOSx ]


PDF Split and Merge
Split and merge PDF files with PDFsam, an easy-to-use desktop tool with graphical, command line and web interface.
[ Download PDF Split and Merge ]


terasology-logoTerasology
Terasology is a free and open-source survival and discovery game set in a voxel world. Influenced by Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper, it offers a unique and enjoyable building and playing experience.

Terasology requires Java 8 and an updated graphics card driver.
[ Download Terasology ]


manjarolinux-community

[ Download manjarolinux-community ]


Peace Equalizer, UI for Equalizer APO
Peace Equalizer is a user interface for Equalizer APO http://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo by Jonas Thedering (version 0.9.1 or higher). Your equalizer configuration (audio preset) can be saved and activated by 1 click, hotkey, tray or desktop shotcut. Note: Your virus scanner can detect a virus in Peace.exe. This is a false positive, more info on the forum. Install by running downloaded PeaceSetup.exe. Almost all suggested features in the reviews are implemented! Thanks shak3800, Giorgio, makzmakz, rcn29, ptou, stelam, creyc, abberration and other Peace fans. For issues on virus scanners and their false positives go to the Wiki.
[ Download Peace Equalizer, UI for Equalizer APO ]


Skim
Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file. Skim requires Mac OS X 10.6 or higher.
[ Download Skim ]


WinPython
WinPython is a free open-source portable distribution of the Python programming language for Windows XP/7/8, designed for scientists, supporting both 32bit and 64bit versions of Python 2 and Python 3. Since September 2014, Developpement has moved to https://winpython.github.io/
[ Download WinPython ]


DC++
This is a project aimed at producing a file-sharing and chatting client using the ADC protocol. It also supports connecting to the Direct Connect network.
[ Download DC++ ]

Jan 13, 2017 

Dont’s When Dealing with New Contributors

Open source projects are amazing in that practically anyone can come in and make a difference. But it can also be a burden for the exact same reason. Just ask project developers and maintainers.

If you have been or currently are a project developer or maintainer, this scenario may be familiar to you: you’re juggling a million things with your project and out of nowhere an external contribution comes in. You’re grateful of course, but you’re also sighing inside and thinking, great. More work for you. And you wouldn’t be wrong.

New contributions can come with a lot of work: reviewing patches and reworking code among others. But thinking of them in this negative way can lead to some bad decisions– decisions that can make open source projects a little less open and a lot more unwelcoming, sometimes even hostile. This is the one big mistake you do not want to be making.

New contributions help keep open source projects going. Developers should really avoid thinking negatively of them as this can lead to actions that keep new contributors away.

Purposefully Discouraging New Contributions

Unfortunately for some, this negativity and the bad practices that result from it can come instinctively or unknowingly simply to avoid “added” work. They’ll say they don’t want contributions; make it difficult for newcomers to make contributions; or purposefully make new contributors feel unwelcome.

The first thing that developers have to realize here is that doing these discouraging things will only hurt instead of help their project. They’re missing out on additional support that can only be beneficial to their project. They could be preventing the entry of a future maintainer. The second thing they need to realize is that these contributions are not really “added” work but work that is essentially part of every open source project. It may not always be the most important part, but it is still part of the project and of the open source process in general, so it should not be discouraged.

Blind to Bad Habits

Even if you don’t do things to purposefully discourage new contributors, there may be other things you’ve gotten used to doing that you didn’t know or notice are actually discouraging. For example: handing new contributors grunt work. It’s often instinctual for maintainers to hand these jobs off to newbies, and in many cases, it’s fine. However, this is not true for all. Some contributors have different motivations and expectations; others are more skilled than they let on. By simply handing them grunt work without consulting them, slowly but surely they will be discouraged to continue with the project.

Conversely, some maintainers expect newcomers to already know the ins and outs of the project, and ask too much of them too soon. This results in the newcomer feeling incompetent.

In these cases, it’s important for project developers and maintainers to properly assess the ability and expectations of newcomers and assign tasks appropriately. You can start by asking them to send in some patches, and review these patches. Simply communicating with them could even be enough to gauge where a new contributor would prove to be most useful within a project. By doing these things, newcomers will feel more fulfilled and be more likely to stick around and help, and the project will be able to benefit from maximizing the newcomer’s skills.

Jan 9, 2017 

Projects of the Week, January 9, 2017

Here are the featured projects for the week, which appear on the front page of SourceForge.net:

Pandora FMS: Flexible Monitoring System
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, 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.
[ Download Pandora FMS: Flexible Monitoring System ]

atom-logo Atom
Atom is a text editor that’s modern, approachable and full-featured. It’s also easily customizable- you can customize it to do anything and be able to use it productively without ever touching a config file.
Atom is free to download and runs on Linux, OS X and Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js and embedded Git Control. It is based on Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell),a framework for building cross-platform apps using Chromium and Node.js.
[ Download Atom ]


ShanaEncoder
ShanaEncoder is audio/video encoding program based on FFmpeg. Main Features – Both beginners and professionals can easily use the ShanaEncoder. – Fast encoding speed and quality of professional. – Closed caption, subtitle overlay, logo, crop, segment, etc… ShanaEncoder provides many features. – Support for H.264(High 10) decoding/encoding. – Support for unicode Source: https://shana.pe.kr/ffmpeg
[ Download ShanaEncoder ]


Netrunner OS
Welcome to Netrunner OS page on Sourceforge. Netrunner is a Debian based OS featuring KDE Plasma Desktop. Here you will find the latest releases for download as X86 ISOs and ARM IMGs.
[ Download Netrunner OS ]


Outlook CalDav Synchronizer
Free Outlook Plugin, which synchronizes events, tasks and contacts between Outlook and Google, SOGo, Horde or any other CalDAV or CardDAV server. Supported Outlook versions are 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007. This project was initially developed as a master thesis project at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Software Engineering Degree program. Outlook CalDav Synchronizer is Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS), still you can support the project by donating on Sourceforge or directly within the About dialog of our Plugin. ### New collaboration with Nextcloud, see https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-offers-caldav-synchronizer-for-outlook-users/ For possible enterprise support contact us here! ### Backport for WinXP available see below! ### German reviews in C’t and PC-Welt http://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2015-27-Kurztest-Outlook-Add-in-3035256.html http://www.pcwelt.de/tipps/Google-Kalender-mit-Outlook-abgleichen-per-CalDAV-Synchronizer-9916911.html ###
[ Download Outlook CalDav Synchronizer ]


VeraCrypt
VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software brought to you by IDRIX (https://www.idrix.fr) and based on TrueCrypt 7.1a. It adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks. It also solves many vulnerabilities and security issues found in TrueCrypt. This enhanced security adds some delay ONLY to the opening of encrypted partitions without any performance impact to the application use phase. This is acceptable to the legitimate owner but it makes it much harder for an attacker to gain access to the encrypted data. All released files are PGP signed with key ID=0x54DDD393, available on key servers and downloadable at https://www.idrix.fr/VeraCrypt/VeraCrypt_PGP_public_key.asc VeraCrypt can mount TrueCrypt volumes. It also can convert them to VeraCrypt format. Documentation: https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/documentation FAQ : https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=FAQ
[ Download VeraCrypt ]


Parrot Security OS
Parrot Security OS is a cloud friendly operating system designed for Pentesting, Computer Forensic, Reverse engineering, Hacking, Cloud pentesting, privacy/anonimity and cryptography. Based on Debian and developed by Frozenbox network.
[ Download Parrot Security OS ]


SynWrite add-ons
Collection of add-ons for SynWrite editor.
[ Download SynWrite add-ons ]


DisplayCAL
DisplayCAL (formerly known as dispcalGUI) is a graphical user interface for the display calibration and profiling tools of Argyll CMS, an open source color management system. Calibrate and characterize your display devices using one of the many supported measurement instruments, with support for multi-display setups and a variety of available settings like customizable whitepoint, luminance, tone response curve as well as the option to create accurate look-up-table ICC profiles as well as some proprietary 3D LUT formats. Check the accuracy of profiles and 3D LUTs via measurements.
[ Download DisplayCAL ]

Jan 6, 2017 

January 2017, “Staff Pick” Project of the Month – antiX-Linux

For our January “Staff Pick” Project of the Month, we selected antiX-Linux, a fast, lightweight and easy to install Linux live CD distribution based on Debian Testing for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems.

antiX provides an environment suitable for new and old computers, giving old computers a fresh new feel. It can also be used as a fast-booting rescue cd. Its goal is to provide a light, but fully functional and flexible free operating system for both new and experienced users of Linux. It should run on most computers, ranging from 256MB old PIII systems with pre-configured swap to the latest powerful boxes.

256MB RAM is the recommended minimum for antiX, and the installer needs a minimum 2.7GB hard disk size. Special XFCE editions made in collaboration with the MEPIS Community are available. Currently, antiX-16 comes as a full distro (c695MB), a base distro (c510MB) and a core-libre distro (c190MB) for 32 bit and 64 bit computers.

[ Download antiX-Linux ]

Jan 2, 2017 

Projects of the Week, January 2, 2017

Here are the featured projects for the week, which appear on the front page of SourceForge.net:

MediaPortal
MediaPortal turns your PC into a very advanced MediaCenter / HTPC. It allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much much more.
[ Download MediaPortal ]


Sky Chart / Cartes du Ciel
SkyChart is a software to draw chart of the night sky for the amateur astronomer from a bunch of stars and nebulae catalogs. See main web page for full download. This software is part of a full suite for astronomical observation: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ccdciel/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/indistarter/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/eqmodgui/ Requirement: https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpasastro/ See also: https://sourceforge.net/projects/indi/
[ Download Sky Chart / Cartes du Ciel ]


Alt-F
Alt-F provides a free alternative firmware for the DLINK DNS-320/320L/321/323/325/327L. Alt-F has Samba and NFS; supports ext2/3/4, VFAT, NTFS and ISO9660 filesystems; RAID 0, 1, 5 (with external USB disk) and JBOD; supports 2/3/4TB disks; rsync, ftp, sftp, ftps, ssh, lpd, DNS and DHCP servers, DDNS, fan and leds control, clean power up and down… and more. Alt-F also has a set of comprehensive administering web pages, you don’t need to use the command line to configure it. Besides the built-in software, Alt-F also supports additional packages on disk, including ffp packages, that you can install, update and uninstall using the administering web pages Alt-F is still beta and is being developed and tested on a DNS-323-rev-A1/B1, a DNS325-rev-A1, a DNS-320L-rev-A1 and on a DNS-327L-rev-A1 hardware boards. Other models and boards are said to work. Support Forum: http://groups.google.com/group/alt-f Homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/altfirmware
[ Download Alt-F ]


BluestarLinux
Bluestar Linux is an Arch Linux-based distribution, built with an understanding that people want and need a solid Operating System that provides a breadth of functionality and ease of use without sacrificing aesthetics. Bluestar is offered in three edtions – desktop, deskpro and developer – each tailored to address the needs of a variety of Linux users. Bluestar can be installed permanently as a robust and fully configurable operating system on a laptop or desktop system, or it can be run effectively as a live installer and supports the addition of persistent storage for those who choose not to perform a permanent installation. A Bluestar Linux software respository is also maintained in order to provide additional tools and applications when needed or requested. Bluestar provides the following features: Up-to-date Kernel Wide Variety of Applications – Always Current Versions Full Development / Desktop / Multimedia Environment
[ Download BluestarLinux ]


VICE
VICE is an emulator collection which emulates the C64, the C64-DTV, the C128, the VIC20, practically all PET models, the PLUS4 and the CBM-II (aka C610). It runs on Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS, QNX 6.x, Amiga, GP2X or Mac OS X machines.
[ Download VICE ]


OpenFOAM+

[ Download OpenFOAM+ ]


SWIG
SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages. SWIG is used with different types of target languages including common scripting languages such as Javascript, Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and Ruby. The list of supported languages also includes non-scripting languages such as C#, Common Lisp (CLISP, Allegro CL, CFFI, UFFI), D, Go language, Java, Lua, Modula-3, OCAML, Octave, R and Scilab. Also several interpreted and compiled Scheme implementations (Guile, MzScheme/Racket, Chicken) are supported. SWIG is most commonly used to create high-level interpreted or compiled programming environments, user interfaces, and as a tool for testing and prototyping C/C++ software. SWIG is typically used to parse C/C++ interfaces and generate the ‘glue code’ required for the above target languages to call into the C/C++ code. SWIG can also export its parse tree in the form of XML and Lisp s-expressions.
[ Download SWIG ]


thumbapps
We believe that free/open source software is enough, we don’t need pirated softwares on Windows. But most of these aren’t portables, or provided by PortableApps.com due to .NET dependencies, 64-bit etc. So we provide what’s missing here. Software publisher who wishes their portablized software taken down, can tip us through thumbapps.org or [email protected]. We promise to take it down without questions, but please be patient—we might not be able to respond promptly, but we eventually *will* …thanks for your patience, and sorry for being such a #naughty uploader 😉 Disclaimer. All softwares are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. YOU USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE AUTHOR WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DATA LOSS, DAMAGES, AND LOSS OF PROFITS OR ANY OTHER KIND OF LOSS WHILE USING OR MISUSING THESE SOFTWARES.
[ Download thumbapps ]


Uniform Server
The Uniform Server is a lightweight server solution for running a web server under the WindowsOS. Less than 24MB! Modular design, includes the latest versions of Apache2, Perl5, PHP (switch between PHP53, PHP54, PHP55 or PHP56), MySQL5 or MariaDB5, phpMyAdmin or Adminer4. Run from either hard drive or USB memory stick… NO INSTALLATION REQUIRED! NO REGISTRY DUST! Just UNPACK and FIRE UP!
[ Download Uniform Server ]

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