The ParaType PT Sans and PT Serif font families were developed as
part of the "Public Types of Russian Federation" project. The main
objective of the project is to allow the peoples of Russia to read
and write their native languages using free/libre fonts.
In addition to standard Western, Central European, and Cyrillic code
pages, the fonts contain characters of all title languages of the
Russian Federation.
PT Sans is based on Russian sans serif types of the second part of
the XX century, but at the same time has a very distinctive features
of modern humanistic design. The family consists of 8 styles: 4
basic styles, 2 caption styles for small sizes, and 2 narrow styles.
PT Serif is a transitional serif face with humanistic terminals
designed for use together with PT Sans. It consists of 6 styles: 4
basic styles, and 2 caption styles for small sizes.
The fonts were released by ParaType, and designed by Alexandra
Korolkova, Olga Umpeleva and Vladimir Yefimov.
Tk is a great graphical toolkit to write desktop applications. However, one can
get bothered with the constant typing of quotes and options. Tk::Sugar provides
handy subs for common options used when programming Tk.
Benefits are obvious:
- Reduced typing: The constant need to type => and '' is fine for one-off cases,
but the instant you start using Tk it starts to get annoying.
- More compact statements: Reduces much of the redundant typing in most cases,
which makes your life easier, and makes it take up less visual space, which
makes it faster to read.
- No string worries: Strings are often problematic, since they aren't checked at
compile-time. Sometimes it makes spotting an error a difficult task. Using
this alleviates that worry.
Tk::TableMatrix is a table/matrix widget extension to perl/tk for
displaying data in a table (or spreadsheet) format. The basic
features of the widget are:
* multi-line cells
* support for embedded windows (one per cell)
* row & column spanning
* variable width columns / height rows (interactively resizable)
* row and column titles
* multiple data sources ((perl hash|| perl callback) &| internal caching)
* supports standard Tk reliefs, fonts, colors, etc.
* x/y scrollbar support
* 'tag' styles per row, column or cell to change visual appearance
* in-cell editing - returns value back to data source
* support for disabled (read-only) tables or cells (via tags)
* multiple selection modes, with "active" cell
* multiple drawing modes to get optimal performance for larger tables
* optional 'flashes' when things update
* cell validation support
* Works everywhere Tk does (including Windows and Mac!)
XMascot displays a moving mascot on your X11 screen. XMascot has the
following options:
- Moving pretty mascot moving
- Stretch stretch it as you like
- Talking mascot talks with extract command and data
- Alarm mascot may make some actions at defined time
- BIFF mascot may let you know arriving a mail
XMascot supports these image formats:
- MAG (*.mag) 16 colors and 256 colors
- TIFF (*.tif) 16 colors and 256 colors, in raw or lzw
- PPM (*.ppm) 256 level color, in raw
- PGM (*.pgm) 256 level gray scale, in raw
- PBM (*.pbm) 2 level monochrome, in raw
- PNM (*.pnm) PPM, PGM, or PBM
XMascot distinguishes images from their suffix and can load other image
formats when corresponding *topnm, *topgm, or *topbm commands are found
in your system.
atool is a script for managing file archives of various types (tar,
tar+gzip, zip, etc.). It provides the following commands:
* aunpack: extract an archive, avoiding tar bombs
* als: list the contents of an archive
* acat: extract files to the standard output
* apack: create an archive
Optional dependencies: lbzip2 or pbzip2, lzip, plzip, lzop, lzma, zip,
unzip, unrar, lha, unace, arj, arc, nomarch, p7zip, unalz.
Archive::Tar provides an object oriented mechanism for handling tar files. It
provides class methods for quick and easy files handling while also allowing
for the creation of tar file objects for custom manipulation. If you have the
IO::Zlib module installed, Archive::Tar will also support compressed or gzipped
tar files.
An object of class Archive::Tar represents a .tar(.gz) archive full of files
and things.
Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>
[excerpt from borgbackup web site]
BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. Optionally, it
supports compression and authenticated encryption.
The main goal of Borg is to provide an efficient and secure way to backup data.
The data deduplication technique used makes Borg suitable for daily backups
since only changes are stored. The authenticated encryption technique makes it
suitable for backups to not fully trusted targets.
Archive::Tar::Minitar is a pure-Ruby library and command-line utility that
provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar(1) archive files. The
implementation is based heavily on Mauricio Fernandez's implementation
in rpa-base, but has been reorganised to promote reuse in other projects.
The library can only handle files and directories at this point.
The command line utility, minitar, can only create archives, extract from
archives, and list archive contents.
UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable
packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an
excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression.
Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks
because of in-place decompression.
UPX is copyrighted software distributed under the terms of the
GNU General Public License, with special exceptions granting
the free usage for commercial programs as stated in the
UPX License Agreement.
Aqualung is an advanced music player originally targeted at the GNU/Linux
operating system. Today it is also running on FreeBSD and OpenBSD, with
native ports to Mac OS X and even Microsoft Windows. It plays audio CDs,
internet radio streams and podcasts as well as sound files in just about
any audio format, and has a feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent
tracks.