mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a
single network diagnostic tool.
As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the host mtr runs
on and a user-specified destination host. After it determines the address of
each network hop between the machines, it sends a sequence ICMP ECHO requests to
each one to determine the quality of the link to each machine. As it does this,
it prints running statistics about each machine.
Official mtr repository is at https://github.com/traviscross/mtr
esh is a new shell for Unix, written completely from scratch. It is
very small, both in number of lines of source code and in memory
consumption. The whole shell is about 5000 lines of C source code, and
occupies about twice as little memory as bash in some cases.
However, esh is also extremely flexible, with a real programming
language at the core. The syntax is a simplified form of Scheme. The
current version is 0.8, though it is already stable and
featureful. The reason for the low version number is lack of
real-world testing. It is released under the GPL, of course.
The fetchlog utility displays the last new messages of a logfile.
It is similar like tail (1) but offers some extra functionality like
pattern matching with regular expressions or output formatting. To show
only the new messages appeared since the last call fetchlog uses a
bookmark to remember which messages have been fetched.
fetchlog works on syslog generated logfiles as well as other logfiles.
fetchlog can be used standalone or as a Nagios (TM) plugin. Together
with Net-SNMP one can look at/monitor new messages in remote logfiles.
-Alexander Haderer
alexander.haderer@loescap.de
Munin network-wide graphing framework (node)
Munin is a tool for graphing all sorts of information about one or more
servers and displaying it in a web interface. It uses the excellent
RRDTool (written by Tobi Oetiker) and is written in Perl. Munin has a
master/node architecture. The master connects to all the nodes at regular
intervals, and asks them for data. It then stores the data in RRD-files,
and (if needed) updates the graphs. One of the main goals have been ease
of creating own "plugins" (graphs).
This are the common components to drive both the server and the node components
of munin.
Aiksaurus is a set of libraries and applications which provide a thesaurus
(currently English only, based on Guttenburg's Moby thesaurus) using native
GUI on several platforms: UNIX (GTK+ & Qt), Win32 & MacOSX (Cocoa). The core
library itself is platform-independent. The principal language is C++, with
some use of Cocoa/ObjC++; wrappers are provided for C and Cocoa/ObjC.
Aiksausus plugins exist for AbiWord on UNIX and Win32; the library is also
used by Lyx; and the new Cocoa port provides a MacOSX NSService hook so that
Safari and other such applications can use this thesaurus without
Aiksaurus-specific development.
Planet is a flexible feed aggregator, this means that it downloads feeds
and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed with
the latest news first.
It uses Mark Pilgrim's Ultra-liberal feed parser so can read from RDF, RSS
and Atom feeds and Tomas Styblo's template library to output static files
in unlimited formats based on a series of templates.
Planet was written for the Planet Debian and Planet GNOME websites by
Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> and
Jeff Waugh <jdub@perkypants.org>. It was originally based on 'spycyroll'.
muCommander is a lightweight, cross-platform file manager featuring
a Norton Commander style interface and running on any operating
system with Java support (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, *BSD, Solaris...).
Here's a non-exaustive list of what you'll find:
- Virtual filesystem with local volumes, FTP, SFTP, SMB, NFS, HTTP and
Bonjour support
- Quickly copy, move, rename files, create directories, email files...
- Browse, create and uncompress ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ISO/NRG, AR/Deb and
LST archives
- Universal bookmarks and credentials manager
- Multiple windows support
- Full keyboard access
- Highly configurable
Squeeze is a modern and advanced archive manager for the Xfce Desktop
Environment. Its design adheres to the Xfce philosophy, which basically
means Squeeze is designed to be both fast and easy to use.
PyAL is a wrapper around the OpenAL library and as such similar to the
discontinued PyOpenAL project. In contrast to PyOpenAL, it has no licensing
restrictions, nor does it rely on C code, but uses ctypes instead.
librmpd is a simple yet powerful Music Player Daemon library written
entirely in Ruby. It provides callback functionality to create an
event/listener type of setup, along with thread safety for threaded apps.