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Openmoko™ is a project dedicated to delivering mobile phones with an open source software stack. Openmoko is currently selling the Neo FreeRunner phone to advanced users and will start selling it to the general public as soon as the software is more developed. Link
NdisWrapper is a free software driver wrapper that enables the use of Microsoft Windows drivers for wireless network devices such as PCI cards, USB modems on Linux / Unix-like operating systems. Ndiswrapper works by implementing the Windows kernel and NDIS APIs, and dynamically linking the driver to this implementation. Link
Independent tests show that Red Hat Linux pulls as much as 12% less power than Windows 2008 on identical hardware. Ensuring your servers stamp as small a carbon footprint as possible on the earth and in your data center can encompass everything from making sure they are shipped in recyclable packaging to hiring an analyst who can predict the total life-cycle environmental impact. Link
Network Bonding, otherwise known as port trunking allows you to combine multiple network ports into a single group, effectively aggregating the bandwidth of multiple interfaces into a single connection. For example, you can aggregate two gigabyte ports into a two-gigabyte trunk port. Bonding is used primarily to provide network load balancing and fault tolerance. Link
pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and a package system allowing further expandability without adding bloat and potential security vulnerabilities to the base distribution. pfSense is a popular project with more than 1 million downloads since its inception, and proven in countless installations ranging from small home networks protecting a PC and an Xbox to large corporations, universities and other organizations protecting thousands of network devices.
HaCi is an IP Address / Network Administration Tool with IPv6 Support. It stores its data efficiently in a relative Database and uses a treelike Structure to illustrate supernets and subnets. Additional (template) data can be linked to each network. Link
The OpenFOAM (Open Field Operation and Manipulation) CFD Toolbox can simulate anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics, electromagnetics and the pricing of financial options. OpenFOAM is produced by OpenCFD Ltd.
Il programma BRL-CAD è un modellatore solido di tipo Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) cioè basato sull’algebra booleana e sviluppato da più di 20 anni dal U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL). È lo stesso laboratorio che ha sviluppato nel 1947 il famoso ENIAC, primo computer costruito funzionante a valvole. BRL-CAD è stato sviluppato a partire dal 1979 inizialmente per verificare il comportamento strutturale dei carri armati in combattimento ( il primo è stato il carro XM-1). In seguito è stato usato anche in altri settori, non solo militari, come quelli per la modellazione dei solidi e per l’analisi dei materiali applicati. Link
The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines. As virtualization technology rapidly becomes mainstream, each virtualization solution provider implements their own set of tools and utilities to supplement the guest virtual machine. However, most of the implementations are proprietary and are tied to a specific virtualization platform. Link
