fio is an I/O tool meant to be used both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. It has support for 13 different types of I/O engines (sync, mmap, libaio, posixaio, SG v3, splice, null, network, syslet, guasi, solarisaio, and more), I/O priorities (for newer Linux kernels), rate I/O, forked or threaded jobs, and much more. It can work on block devices as well as files. fio accepts job descriptions in a simple-to-understand text format. Several example job files are included. fio displays all sorts of I/O performance information. Fio is in wide use in many places, for both benchmarking, QA, and verification purposes. It supports Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OS X, OpenSolaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Windows.
Release Notes: A major overhaul was undertaken, splitting the front and back ends. Fio can now be run as a server and a client, and it is possible to control jobs on multiple machines from a single client. Cheap and simple data scrambling is now used by default to defeat SSD compression/de-duplication. Completion latency percentile support was added. The terse output format was revised to version 3, adding disk utilization, IOPS, and latency percentiles. Pattern verifies were sped up. Various fixes were included for FreeBSD, Windows, HP-UX, Mac OS X, and AIX.
Tags: Benchmark, Filesystems
Licenses: GPLv2
Aspose.Words is a word processing component that makes it possible for .NET applications to read, write, and modify Word documents without using Microsoft Word. Other useful features include document creation, content and formatting manipulation, mail merge abilities, reporting features, and support for DOCX, DOC, WordprocessingML, HTML, XHTML, TXT, and PDF formats (requires Aspose.Pdf). It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.
Release Notes: This new release supports rendering of comments in MS Word to fixed-page formats such as PDF and introduces new options which allow you to choose how fonts are exported to PDF, with options to use standard core PDF fonts or system installed fonts instead of embedding fonts into the document. Using either of these options results in significant reductions in the file size of generated PDFs. A number of improvements were made in the handling of RTF control words.
Release Tags: Comments Rendering to Pdf, Comments Rendering to Fixed-Page Formats, Export PDF using Core Fonts, Render custom footnote/endnote, Export PDF with System Installed Fonts, Compound Lines Rendering, Linked textboxes supported in docx, use Core Fonts Options
Tags: PDF, word, Ms Office
Licenses: Evaluation License, Developer Enterprise License, Developer OEM License, Site Enterprise License, Site OEM License
GTK, which stands for the Gimp ToolKit, is a library for creating graphical user interfaces. It is designed to be small and efficient, but still flexible enough to allow the programmer freedom in the interfaces created. GTK provides some unique features over standard widget libraries.
Release Notes: Various fixes and improvements were made for theming. Minor bugs were fixed.
Release Tags: Development GTK+ 3, Minor feature enhancements, Minor bugfixes
Tags: Desktop Environment, Software Development, Libraries, Application Frameworks, Widget Sets
Licenses: LGPL
GTK, which stands for the Gimp ToolKit, is a library for creating graphical user interfaces. It is designed to be small and efficient, but still flexible enough to allow the programmer freedom in the interfaces created. GTK provides some unique features over standard widget libraries.
Release Notes: The Quartz backend gained an implementation of gdk_window_restack. A recently introduced printing crash with custom option handling was fixed. The broken gdk_window_raise on Win32 was fixed.
Release Tags: Stable GTK+ 2, Minor bugfixes
Tags: Desktop Environment, Software Development, Libraries, Application Frameworks, Widget Sets
Licenses: LGPL
GLib is a library containing many useful C routines for things such as trees, hashes, and lists. GLib was previously distributed with the GTK toolkit, but has been split off as of the developers’ version 1.1.0.
Release Notes: The GResource resource compiler can now convert PNGs into pixel data that can be used without parsing at runtime. Minor bugs were fixed.
Release Tags: Development, Minor feature enhancements, Minor bugfixes
Tags: Software Development, Libraries
Licenses: LGPL
Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats, such as PostScript, PDF, single page and multi-page TIFF, DVI, DjVu, and others. It features page thumbnails, printing via the GNOME or GTK+ printing frameworks, and searching within the documents. It supports the displaying of PDF indexes, the displaying and editing of PDF annotations, and the viewing of encrypted PDF documents.
Release Notes: A "Send To" action was added to the file menu and the toolbar. The "–named-dest" command line option was implemented, adding spawn and DBus support for named destinations. A crash when dropping an item onto the toolbar was fixed. The page index argument when spawning a command was fixed. T1 font mapping files are now used in the DVI backend. Several memory leaks in the comics backend were fixed. Translations were updated.
Release Tags: Development, Minor feature enhancements, Minor bugfixes
Licenses: GPLv2+, GFDL
ZXTune is a set of portable cross-platform applications (GUI/CLI) intended to play chiptunes originally created for ZX Spectrum. It features advanced ripping possibilities that let you search for music in big data sets. Supported playback formats include AY, AS0, ASC, PSG, PT2, PT3, ST1, STC, STP, TXT, TurboSound, CHI, DMM, DST, PDT, SQD, and STR. Supported compressed formats include CHARPRES, CC3, CC4, CC4PLUS, DSQ, ESV, GAM, GAMPLUS, HRUM, HRUST1, HRUST2, LZH1, LZH2, LZS, MSP, PACK2, PCD61, PCD62, TLZ, TLZP, TRUSH. Supported archived/container formats include FDI, HOBETA, HRIP, RAW, SCL, TD0, TRD, ZXZIP, ZIP, and RAR.
Release Notes: PT3 support was reworked and PT2 detection was improved. Empty modules are now ignored. Metainfo insertion into AS0/ASC/STP was fixed. Memory usage while scanning was fixed. A problem where the volume level was lost while changing the currently played module was fixed. Asynchronous file saving was implemented in zxtune123. .ayl playlist detection was improved in zxtune-qt.
Release Tags: Unstable, Minor, GUI, cli, Core
Tags: zx, spectrum, zx-spectrum, chiptune, music search, Player, emulator, sound, multimedia
Licenses: GPLv3
afick is another file integrity checker, designed
to be fast and fully portable between Unix and
Windows platforms. It works by first creating a
database that represents a snapshot of the most
essential parts of your computer system. You can
then run the script to discover all modifications
made since the snapshot was taken (i.e. files
added, changed, or removed). The configuration
syntax is very close to that of aide or tripwire,
and a graphical interface is provided.
Release Notes: SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksum algorithms were added to replace SHA-1 for better security. Output of SHA-* checksums are now compatible with the output of the sha1sum, sha256sum, and sha512sum commands.
Release Tags: Stable, Minor feature enhancements
Tags: Security, Systems Administration
Licenses: GPL
tmsu is an application that allows you to organise your files by associating them with tags. It provides a tool for managing these tags and a virtual filesystem to allow tag-based access to your files.
Release Notes: This initial public release allows you to tag and untag files and directories, identify items with given tags, mount and unmount the virtual file system, and identify duplicates.
Release Tags: alpha release
Tags: tagging, tag
Licenses: GPLv3
kmod is a set of tools to handle common tasks with Linux kernel modules like insert, remove, list, check properties, resolve dependencies, and aliases. It replaces module-init-tools.
Release Notes: modprobe no longer works with paths. It only accepts module names and/or aliases now. More code is now shared by libkmod and modprobe.
Release Tags: Minor feature enhancements, minor bug fixes
Tags: Operating System Kernels, Linux, Utilities
Licenses: LGPL v2.1+, GPL v2 Or Later
