AstroMenace 1.0

AstroMenace

Description by the Software Developer:
"AstroMenace is a brilliant 3d scroll-shooter allowing you to feel the adrenalin rush of a fierce space battle against relentless swarms of alien invaders. Immerse into a decisive battle against tons of cunning foes, face the terrifying bosses and protect your homeland throughout 15 diverse levels of the game. The hardcore gameplay of AstroMenace, packed with pure non-stop action, will become a full scale test for your basic instinct of survival.

AstroMenace shines with stunning special effects which in combination with superb 3d graphics guarantee that the game will feast the eyes of even most experienced arcade players. The quality of visuals ensures that the demonstration of your superior power and new weaponry will look really impressive and awesome, so the destruction of foes is a truly amazing sight."
AstroMenace home page

X-Moto 0.2.6

Beryl 0.2.0

Beryl

Description by the Software Developer:
"Beryl is an OpenGL accelerated desktop that seeks to provide a free, open source desktop experience to the community that reflects the wishes of the users. Above all else, the project seeks to listen to and respond to the requests of the user base.

Beryl is a combined window manager and composite manager written in C using OpenGL to provide acceleration. It is designed to be highly flexible, extensible, and portable, all the while keeping in mind that the users know how they want their desktops to act better than we do. With Beryl the rather esoteric concept of the computer desktop is brought down to a more human level, allowing for a more native and intuitive understanding of your workspace."
Beryl home page

RPM 4.4.8

RPM

Description by the Software Developer:
"The Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, etc. It also includes the RPM C library and header files. These development files will simplify the process of writing programs which manipulate RPM packages and databases and are intended to make it easier to create graphical package managers or any other tools that need an intimate knowledge of RPM packages in order to function."
RPM home page

Ekiga 2.0.7

Ekiga

Description by the Software Developer:
"Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) is an open source VoIP and video conferencing application for GNOME. Ekiga uses both the H.323 and SIP protocols. It supports many audio and video codecs, and is interoperable with other SIP compliant software and also with Microsoft NetMeeting. "
Ekiga home page

Kino 1.0.0

Kino

Description by the Software Developer:
"Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE-1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in Raw DV and AVI format, in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV (separate audio stream) encodings.
You can load multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it to an edit decision list (SMIL XML format). Most edit and navigation commands are mapped to equivalent vi key commands. Also, Kino can export the composite movie in a number of formats: DV over IEEE 1394, Raw DV, DV AVI, still frames, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. Still frame import and export uses gdk-pixbuf, which has support for BMG, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PPM, SVG, Targa, TIFF, and XPM. MP3 requires lame. Ogg Vorbis requires oggenc. MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 require mjpegtools or ffmpeg. MPEG-4 requires ffmpeg."
Kino home page

SpamAssassin 3.1.8

SpamAssassin

Description by the Software Developer:
"SpamAssassin is a mature, widely-deployed open source project that serves as a mail filter to identify Spam. SpamAssassin uses a variety of mechanisms including header and text analysis, Bayesian filtering, DNS blocklists, and collaborative filtering databases. SpamAssassin runs on a server, and filters spam before it reaches your mailbox.
SpamAssassin home page

X-Plane 8.60

X-Plane

A comprehensive, powerful flight simulator.
The developers' description:
"Welcome to the world of props, jets, single- and multi-engine airplanes, as well as gliders, helicopters and VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B Harrier. X-Plane comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic Concorde and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie. X-Plane comes with about 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several hundred more are freely downloadable from the Internet. X-Plane scenery is world-wide, with scenery for the entire planet Earth AND MARS! (thanks to the Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter, which mapped that planet's elevation) You can land at any of over 18,000 airports, as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves, and oil rigs... Weather is variable from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear, turbulence, and microbursts! Rain, snow and clouds are available for an instrument flying challenge, and thermals are available for the gliders! Real weather conditions can be downloaded from the internet, allowing you to fly in the actual weather that currently exists!"
X-Plane home page

UPX for Linux 2.93 Beta

UPX for Linux

UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables) is a versatile executables packer, with excellent compression ratio and very fast decompression, capable of packing a variety of executable formats, including: atari/tos, djgpp2/coff, dos/com, dos/exe, dos/sys, linux/386, rtm32/pe, and other formats.

What's new:
Optional LZMA compression -- Support for BSD systems -- Many internal changes.
UPX for Linux home page

X-Moto 0.2.6

X-Moto

Description by the Software Developer:
"X-Moto is a challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an all important role in the gameplay. You need to control your bike to its limit, if you want to have a chance finishing the more difficult of the challenges."
X-Moto home page

NVIDIA Linux Display Driver 1.0-9755

NVIDIA Linux Display Driver

nVidia Linux Display Driver is the OpenGL nVidia support for graphic cards on Linux operating systems.
NVIDIA Linux Display Driver home page

Berry Linux 0.79

Berry Linux

Description by the Software Developer:
"Berry Linux is a bootable CD Linux with automatic hardware detection and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals.

Berry Linux can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD or as a rescue system. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk, although this option is also available (it needs 1.2GB of hard disk space). Berry Linux is based on Red Hat Linux and Knoppix."

Berry Linux home page

SimplyMEPIS 6.5 Beta 7

SimplyMEPIS

Description by the Software Developer:
"MEPIS Linux is a desktop Linux system that is also easy to configure as a dedicated server. SimplyMEPIS is designed for both personal and business purposes.
It includes cutting-edge features such as a live/installation/recovery CD, automatic hardware configuration, NTFS partition resizing, ACPI power management, WiFi support, anti-aliased TrueType fonts, a personal firewall, KDE, and much more."
SimplyMEPIS home page

Xpdf 3.02

Xpdf

An open source PDF viewer and related tools.
Xpdf home page

Firebird 2.0.0 (12748)

Firebird

Description by the Software Developer:
"Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers."
Firebird home page

LILO 22.8

Gizmo Project for Linux 2.0.0.56

Gizmo Project for Linux

Description by the Software Developer:
"Gizmo Project uses your internet connection (broadband or dial-up) to make calls to other computers. With the click of a mouse, you’re connected to friends, family, and colleagues anywhere on earth. It’s just that simple. You talk clearly. For as long as you want. For free.

And with inexpensive add-ons like Call In and Call Out, you can talk to any telephone–mobile or landline–on the planet. Any phone? Yes."
Gizmo Project for Linux home page

Evolution 2.9.6

Litrix Linux 7.2 RC1

Litrix Linux

Litrix is a Linux live CD based on Gentoo Linux. This release is a start of a new series based on Gentoo 2006. The new release includes support for MMX and 3DNow!, offering a major performance boost to multimedia applications. This is further enhanced by the addition of new KDE-based multimedia applications, such as amaroK with its excellent archive organising abilities and intuitive playlist features, and Kaffeine, which offers playback of both audio and video files.
Litrix Linux home page

LILO 22.8

LILO

LILO is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems. It is responsible for loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy or a hard drive and passing control to it.

LILO home page

Zenwalk Gnu/Linux LiveCD 4.2

Zenwalk Gnu/Linux LiveCD

Description by the Software Developer:
"Zenwalk Linux (formerly Minislack) is a Slackware-based Linux distribution with focus on Internet applications, multimedia and programming tools.
ZenLive Linux LiveCD is a complete system with software for Internet browsing, mail, chat, multimedia and office, as well as for programming in C, Perl, Python and Ruby.
The main objectives of Zenwalk Linux are to be simple and fast, provide one application per task, be a complete development and desktop environment and to be small enough to fit on a 400MB ISO image."
Zenwalk Gnu/Linux LiveCD home page

ZenLive Linux LiveCD 4.2

Zenwalk Gnu/Linux LiveCD

Description by the Software Developer:
"Zenwalk Linux (formerly Minislack) is a Slackware-based Linux distribution with focus on Internet applications, multimedia and programming tools.
ZenLive Linux LiveCD is a complete system with software for Internet browsing, mail, chat, multimedia and office, as well as for programming in C, Perl, Python and Ruby.
The main objectives of Zenwalk Linux are to be simple and fast, provide one application per task, be a complete development and desktop environment and to be small enough to fit on a 400MB ISO image."
Zenwalk Gnu/Linux LiveCD home page

Mozilla Firefox for Linux 2.0.0.2

Mozilla Firefox for Linux

Mozilla Firefox is a fast and very easy to use browser that offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the tabbed browsing.
Mozilla Firefox for Linux home page