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• 58 Open Source Replacements for Commercial Communications Apps - Datamation.com - An annotated list of equivalent open source software for communication applications, such as blogging, browsers, content management systems, media players, office apps, and VoIP. It is organized by subject category.
• KTouch - Touch Typing Tutor - A KDE3 and KDE4 desktop application for learning how to touch-type with speed and accuracy. It comes with lessons for many different keyboard layouts across many different languages and different levels of difficulty. Latest stable release is 1.6.0, 2007-06-27.
• Kfstab - A KDE graphical front-end for easy editing of the /etc/fstab file; latest stable release is 0.7.0, 2002-06-09.
• Klavaro - A touch typing tutorial which supports customizable keyboard layouts. Excellent multilingual support. Latest stable release is 1.5.0, 2010-02-27.
• Martus.org -- Human Rights Bulletin System - A cross-platform application that assists non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to collect information on human rights abuses. Also available in Arabic, French, Nepali, Persian, Russian, Spanish,and Thai.
• SEPP - A software deployment system.
• The Zero Install system - A program that allows users to run applications directly from the Internet from the software author's pages.
• Tux4Kids Project - This is the homepage for Tux Paint, Tux Typing, and Tux Math, starring our beloved Tux. All of these are excellent educational games for children. Latest release is 1.8.1, 2010-05-02.
• TuxOnIce for Linux - This is software that saves the contents of memory to disk and powers down. When the computer is started up again, it reloads the contents and the user can continue from where they left off. Formerly called Software Suspend 2 for Linux.
• UNIXSTL - Template Software for the UNIX Operating System - A sub-project of STLSoft that provides C++ libraries for UNIX development, in the mode of the Standard Template Library (STL).
• VCRON - Visual Cron - A graphical interface to cron and at, allowing to view, modify, delete and add programmed actions. It is written in tcl/tk, and it is an easy to use multilingual application, with an inline manual. Still a useful application despite the age of the latest release - 2.3, 2003-05-19. Website also available in French.
• Welcome to debian-sf Homepage! - A package of SourceForge software for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. That means, it's a file (or set of files) that can be installed by a package manager, resulting in an automatic installation of the Sourceforge software on a Debian system.