Open Source Utils

The NetBeans IDE is an award-winning integrated development environment available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. The NetBeans project consists of an open-source IDE and an application platform that enable developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Groovy, JavaFX and C/C++. It is supported by a vibrant developer community and offers extensive documentation and training resources as well as a diverse selection of third-party plugins.

Release Overview

NetBeans IDE 6.7 Beta introduces integration with Project Kenai, a collaborative environment for developers to host open-source projects. With Kenai and the NetBeans IDE, a team of developers is able to create projects, check out, edit, debug, build, and commit code, all through one easy-to-use interface!

The release also builds on the success of NetBeans 6.5 with native support for Maven; GlassFish and Hudson integrations; and enhancements to Java, PHP, Ruby, Groovy and C/C++. Additional highlights of the 6.7 Beta release include support for JavaScript 1.7, SVG Rich Components and a “Profile Me Now” self-diagnostic tool.

Release Notes

http://www.netbeans.org

The last planned update for our present stable product Pardus 2008 is closing to completion. Pardus 2008.2 will be released on January 30th, and the first release candidate Pardus 2008.2 RC1 is out as of today.

The core team has decided to code name this release candidate as Gaza. It is our sincere wish to have an end to this tragedy lasting for weeks, killing hundreds of civilians, and stripping hundreds of thousands off of health, food and other basic needs. Palestinian people in Gaza surely deserve life safety and proper living conditions.

The graffiti artist Banksy speaks for all of us in his work on the Israeli-Palestinian wall: There is always hope…

http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/
Download: ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2008.2/

Based on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, Linux 2.6.27, Gnome 2.24 and Xorg 7.4, Linux Mint 6 “Felicia” comes with a brand new “Software Manager”, FTP support in mintUpload, proxy support and history of updates in mintUpdate, mint4win (a Windows installer), tabbed browsing in Nautilus and a lot of other improvements.

What’s new in Felicia?

http://www.linuxmint.com

TurboCASH  is an open source accounting package that is free for everyone to download and distribute under the terms of the General Public Licence (GPL). It is one of the world’s first fully-featured open source accounts packages for small business.

TurboCASH is much more than a simple ‘home finances’ or small business bookkeeping system (compare us to Quickbooks and Sage and see why). Small business accounting software providers typically release a low-end product for £100 that excludes such basic features as stock control. TurboCASH includes most functions a business will ever need: debtors, creditors, general ledger, full stock control, VAT accounting, invoicing, bank reconciliation, trial balance, balance sheet and income statements, full reporting and analysis, as well as mutli-company and multi-user capabilities.

TurboCASH accounting software is flexible. It can be configured for any country and any small business. We currently have chart of accounts available for free download for the UK and USA. We have embraced the General Public License, and strive to provide powerful small business accounting software to our growing userbase of 60,000 users.

http://www.osutils.com

NetBeans IDE 6.5 offers simplified and rapid development of web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications with PHP, JavaScript, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and Groovy.

New features include a robust IDE for PHP, JavaScript debugging for Firefox and IE, and support for Groovy and Grails. NetBeans IDE 6.5 also delivers a number of enhancements for Java, Ruby on Rails, and C/C++ development. Java highlights include: built-in support for Hibernate, Eclipse project import, and compile on save.

Combining excellent out of the box experience, compelling features, and a great plugin ecosystem, NetBeans IDE 6.5 is a must-download for all developers.

http://www.netbeans.org

Hedgewars, it’s a Blast! This is the funniest and most addictive game you’ll ever play - hilarious fun that you can enjoy anywhere, anytime. Hedgewars is a turn based strategy game but the real buzz is from watching the devastation caused by those pesky hedgehogs with those fantastic weapons - sneaky little blighters with a bad attitude!

http://www.hedgewars.org

FlightGear is a free open-source multi-platform flight simulator developed by the FlightGear project since 1997.

The project had its first release in 1997 and continued in development, culminating in the latest major release of 1.0.0 in December 2007, with specific builds for a variety of operating systems including Microsoft Windows (Win 32), Mac OS X, Linux, IRIX, and Solaris, although hardware requirements, especially OpenGL hardware graphics acceleration constrict systems capable of running Version 1.0.

FlightGear code is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and it is free software.

http://www.flightgear.org

HSQLDB (Hyperthreaded Structured Query Language Database) is a relational database management system written in Java. It is based on Thomas Mueller’s discontinued Hypersonic SQL Project.

HSQLDB is available under a BSD license.

It has a JDBC driver and supports a large subset of SQL-92, SQL-99, and SQL:2003 standards. It offers a fast, small (less than 100k in one version, around 600k in the standard version) database engine which offers both in-memory and disk-based tables. Embedded and server modes are available.

http://hsqldb.org/

HeidiSQL is an easy-to-use interface and a “working-horse” for web-developers using the popular MySQL-Database. It allows you to manage and browse your databases and tables from an intuitive Windows® interface

http://www.heidisql.com/

SQLTools is a light weighted and robust tool for ORACLE database development. It includes a text editor, an sql console and a couple of sql utilities. You can use it for dial-up connection and it will work as fast as SQLPlus. It is small and not required an installation so SQLTools will help you anywhere because it is small enough for floppy and available for downloading on the Web. SQLTools is free and probably going to be a public source project.

SQLTools is:

• Powerful editor (actually it’ll be more powerful in the next release), which supports drag & drop, syntax highlighting, code template expansion, etc. It is possible to find a database object under cursor and get its description. Context sensitive help provides information about the current sql statement.
• SQL console, which is embedded in the editor. It supports DML & DDL statements and provides additional information about database statistics and timing.
• Object Browser is designed for getting any object DDL definition. One of useful features is support group operations, for example, you can select and disable a set of constraints in one operation.
• Extract Schema utility, which loads all objects definition and stores on local disk.

http://www.sqltools.net/