Open Source Unix Shell Software for Desktop Operating Systems

Unix Shell Software for Desktop Operating Systems

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    TurboVNC

    TurboVNC

    High-speed, 3D-friendly, TightVNC-compatible remote desktop software

    TurboVNC is a high-performance, enterprise-quality version of VNC based on TightVNC, TigerVNC, and X.org. It contains a variant of Tight encoding that is tuned for maximum performance and compression with 3D applications (VirtualGL), video, and other image-intensive workloads. TurboVNC, in combination with VirtualGL, provides a complete solution for remotely displaying 3D applications with interactive performance. TurboVNC's high-speed encoding methods have been adopted by TigerVNC and libvncserver, and TurboVNC is also compatible with any other TightVNC derivative. TurboVNC forked from TightVNC in 2004 and still covers all of the TightVNC 1.3.x features, but TurboVNC contains numerous feature enhancements and bug fixes relative to TightVNC, and it compresses 3D and video workloads much better than TightVNC while using generally only 5-20% of the CPU time of the latter. Using non-default settings, TurboVNC can also be made to compress 2D workloads as "tightly" as TightVNC.
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    Downloads: 143,192 This Week
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    VirtualGL

    VirtualGL

    3D Without Boundaries

    VirtualGL redirects 3D commands from a Unix/Linux OpenGL application onto a server-side GPU and converts the rendered 3D images into a video stream with which remote clients can interact to view and control the 3D application in real time.
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    Downloads: 71,882 This Week
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    Pandora FMS: Flexible Monitoring System

    Pandora FMS: Flexible Monitoring System

    Open Source Monitoring System for performance and availability.

    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, cloud, 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.
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    Downloads: 1,585 This Week
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    Apcupsd is a program for monitoring UPSes and performing a graceful computer shutdown in the event of a power failure. It runs on Linux, Mac OS/X, Win32, BSD, Solaris, and other OSes.
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    Downloads: 526 This Week
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    empty

    Run applications under pseudo-terminal (PTY) sessions

    empty - run applications under pseudo-terminal (PTY) sessions to dialogue with interactive programs. Replace TCL/Expect with a simple tool and use your favorite shell (sh, bash, csh, tcsh, ksh, zsh, etc)
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    Downloads: 414 This Week
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    The Heirloom Project provides standard Unix utilities.
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    Downloads: 772 This Week
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    duply (simple duplicity)
    Duply is a shell front end for the duplicity backup tool https://duplicity.us . It simplifies the usage by implementing backup job profiles, batch commands and more. Secure backup to non-trusted file spaces made easy.
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    Downloads: 143 This Week
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    BRL-CAD

    BRL-CAD

    Open Source Solid Modeling CAD

    BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform constructive solid geometry solid modeling system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray-tracing for rendering & geometric analyses, network distributed framebuffer support, image & signal-processing tools.
    Downloads: 125 This Week
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    Robolinux

    Robolinux

    Announcing Robolinux Cinnamon 14.1

    Announcing The New Robolinux Series 14 Mate LTS - 2034 Robolinux is very pleased to announce a completely new 14.1 Mate privacy centered 1inux operating system you can download freely while also offering our users an optional 14+ advanced upgrade which comes with our Untracker and FAAST Boot along with one click popular privacy software installers like Tor and I2p, Wireshark and Bleachbit plus many more for a fair and reasonable price. Robolinux14.1-Mate is ideal for beginners and advanced users. We are proud that it comes with Enoch AI which is TOTALLY 100% PRIVATE, FREE, HONEST & UNCENSORED built into Robolinux Cinnamon 14.1 The Robolinux 14.1 version with rock solid Long Term Support through 2034! requires users to set secure boot in their BIOS. It is currently available in the Cinnamon desktop flavor. we will release series 14 Xfce version in the next two months.For more information please see Readme file. Warmest regards John Martinson Robolinux.org
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    Downloads: 120 This Week
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    bash debugger

    bash debugger

    A gdb-like debugger for bash
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    Downloads: 78 This Week
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    owfs and owhttpd

    owfs and owhttpd

    Project moved to https://github.com/owfs/owfs/

    Please note that OWFS source code, and all Issue/Tickets/merge requests have now been moved to https://github.com/owfs/owfs/. Developer mailing lists will still be kept at Sourceforge. ---- OWFS -- 1-Wire file system. Use the Dallas 1-Wire and iButton chips with standard filesystem commands. Create temperature loggers. Monitor everything. OWHTTPD -- same system, only used as a light weight web server. OWFS is also ported to embedded routers, Mac OSX and Windows. Basically you can use these inexpensive little sensors and other chips with very simple wiring to sense and control the physical environment. The interface is very flexible -- everything from a web browser, to read and writing directly to the chip's "file" to integrating with your programs -- even over the internet. There is a growing number of 1-wire sensors: temperature, voltage, humidity, light, ultraviolet, pressure, thermisters, thermocouples, programmable microcontrollers, relays, lights, LCD panels, etc
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    Babel Enterprise
    Babel is a enterprise grade secure monitoring platfform to check OS security status: user/passwords, kernel options, file perms, patches, network setup, SUID, binary files changes and much more. All in a distributed and modular management architecture.
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    Downloads: 37 This Week
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    RealTimeBattle is a programming game, in which robots controlled by programs are fighting each other. The goal is to destroy the enemies, using the radar to examine the environment and the cannon to shoot.
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    Downloads: 65 This Week
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    SaraB - Schedule And Rotate Automatic Backups. Supports the Towers of Hanoi, Grandfather-Father-Son, or any custom backup rotation strategy. Easy to use and highly configurable. SaraB utilizes the great backup program, DAR (Disk ARchive).
    Downloads: 24 This Week
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    SaVi satellite constellation visualizer

    SaVi satellite constellation visualizer

    Earth orbits and satellite coverage display in 3D on your laptop.

    SaVi - simulate Starlink, Iridium, Globalstar, O3b, GPS, Galileo and other satellite constellations, modify them, or design your own. Requires Tcl/Tk and Unix libraries; 3D viewing option requires Geomview running on X Window.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    Munin
    Master/node to gather and graph "everything" on your systems using Tobi Oetiker's rrdtool. It can optionally warn your surveillance software. This software package was originally called LRRD. The project. Please see http://munin-monitoring.org/
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    XASTIR

    XASTIR

    Multiplatform Ham Radio APRS and Mapping Program

    NOTE: Code commits are FROZEN on SourceForge: New code is now at <http://github.com/Xastir/Xastir>. Real-time tracking & messaging of stations via radio/internet APRS data streams, w/125 map formats supported. Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris/MacOSX/Windows in any of 7 languages. Can also be used for mobile mapping w/GPS. MAILING LISTS ARE AT: PROJECT->WEB SITE.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    ipmems

    ipmems

    Real-time data acquisition and visualization software

    Cross-platform data acquisition and visualization software with an embedded HTTP-server, binary protocol parsing library, protocol emulation server, remote secure administration server, embedded Groovy scripting facilities and HMI (SCADA) visualization module.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    RefDB is a reference database and bibliography tool for SGML, XML, and LaTeX documents, sort of a Reference Manager or BibTeX for markup languages. It is portable and known to run on Linux, Free/NetBSD, OSX, Solaris, and Windows/Cygwin.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    belofte chess

    belofte chess

    A promising chess program

    A console/text based chess program with XBoard/CECP and UCI API, available on all major platforms. You may need a graphical chess interface to use it. Please refer to README.md in the files section for installation instructions. The last stable release is 2.1.9 and has been released on 19/08/2025. Belofte 0.2.0 till 0.9.20 (c/c++): Xboard 1 & 2 (CECP) - Linux/Unix/(Windows) Belofte 2.1.1 and up (c++11) : UCI and Xboard 2 - Linux/Windows/Mac/Android/... For access to code, please clone the git repository. Compiles and Runs on 32/64 bit on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android (ARM/x86) and Raspberry. Released under GNU v2 license. (means free to copy, free to modify, free to use, ...) Works fine with Arena/Cutechess/BanksiaGui/Winboard/Xboard/...
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    FIDOGATE

    FIDOGATE is a Fido-Internet gateway

    FIDOGATE is a Fido-Internet gateway, a Fido FTN-FTN NetMail gateway, a Fido tosser, a Fido file processor/ticker, and a Fido Areafix/Filefix program (The latest code is in CVS but a GIT repository is being prepared.)
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    OOoLatex is no more maintained. Please consider using TexMaths (http://roland65.free.fr/texmaths/) OOoLatex is a set marcos designed to provide latex support into OpenOffice. Complex equations can be inserted as images, the latex code is saved into the image attribute while simpler equations are expanded into symbol characters to be inserted as text.
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    A complete OpenSource Network Management System Is SNMP-Standard Oriented (tested on Cisco and Linux). It Integrates Syslog, Tacacs, RRDtool (Performance Graphs), Maps, Traps, TFTP, Autodiscovery, Sound Alerts, AAA, Modular and Extensible.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    CLLOG

    CLLOG

    Logging Software for HAM's / Logbuchprogramm für Funkamateure

    CLLOG - german logging software for HAMs - Logbuchprogramm fuer Funkamateure.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    IEs 4 Linux installs Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 5.5 and 5.0 on Linux using Wine without any click
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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