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OpenTeacher – Learn a foreign language
January 12, 2012 by christian · Leave a Comment
OpenTeacher is an opensource vocabulary training application that helps you learn a foreign language!
Enter a list of words in both a known and a foreign language, and OpenTeacher tests you.
OpenTeacher has the following features:
- Smart question asking and interval training
- Think answer, shuffle answer and repeat answer input modes
- Easy symbol, Greek and Cyrillic input
- Read and write T2K (Teach2000), wrts and read ABBYY Lingvo Tutor files
- Save and open your online WRTS lists
- Print your word lists
- Available in Arabic, Trad. Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
OpenTeacher is available for Linux, Windows and Mac.
Website: http://openteacher.org/
yEd Graph Editor
January 12, 2012 by christian · Leave a Comment
yEd is a powerful diagram editor that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality drawings of diagrams. Create your diagrams manually or import your external data for analysis and auto-magically arrange even large data sets by just pressing a button. yEd is freely available and runs on all major platforms: Windows, Unix/Linux, and Mac OS.
Greyhole – Easily expandable and redundant storage pool for home servers
January 11, 2012 by christian · Leave a Comment
Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they’re connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails.
JBOD concatenation storage pool
Configure as many hard drives as you’d like to be included in your pool. Your storage pool size will be the sum of the free space in all the hard drives you include. Your hard drives can be internal, external (USB, e-Sata, Firewire…), or even mount of remote file systems, and you can include hard drives of any size in your pool.
Website: http://www.greyhole.net/
Easy Backup, Recovery & Bare Metal Restore
January 10, 2012 by christian · Leave a Comment
Redo Backup and Recovery is so simple that anyone can use it. It is the easiest, most complete disaster recovery solution available. It allows bare-metal restore. Bare metal restore means that even if your hard drive melts or gets completely erased by a virus, you can have a completely-functional system back up and running in as little as 10 minutes.
All your documents and settings will be restored to the exact same state they were in when the last snapshot was taken. Redo Backup and Recovery is a live CD, so it does not matter if you use Windows or Linux. You can use the same tool to backup and restore every machine. And because it is open source released under the GPL, it is completely free for personal and commercial use.
Stable Version: 1.0.1
Released: August 9, 2011
More Features, Less Complex
Redo Backup has the most features coupled with the simplest, most user-friendly interface:
- Easy graphical user interface boots from CD in less than a minute
- No installation needed; runs from a CD-ROM or a USB stick
- Saves and restores Windows and Linux machines
- Automatically finds local network shares
- Access your files even if you can’t log in
- Recover deleted pictures, documents, and other files
- Internet access with a full-featured browser to download drivers
- Live CD download size is only about 200MB
Article: http://www.unixmen.com/redo-a-simple-live-cd-to-backup-restore-your-computer/
Website: http://redobackup.org/
Amahi: Powerful, Simple Home Server
March 4, 2011 by christian · Leave a Comment
The Amahi Linux Home Server makes your home networking simple. We like to call the Amahi servers HDAs, for “Home Digital Assistants.” Each HDA delivers all the functionality you would want in a home server, while being as easy to use as a web browser.
The core functionality available in the base Amahi HDA install includes:
•Protect Your Computers Back-up all your networked PCs simply and easily on your home network. If one of your PCs “dies” you can easily restore it!
•Organize Your Files Access, share and search your files from any machine on your network, making it easy to share and find your photos, music and videos.
•Internet Wide Access Automatically setup your own VPN so you can access your network from anywhere: safely and securely.
•Private Internet Applications Shared applications like calendaring, private wiki and more to come, will help you manage your home and your family!
Website: http://www.amahi.org
OpenFire: Real time collaboration (RTC) server
March 2, 2011 by christian · Leave a Comment
Openfire is a real time collaboration (RTC) server licensed under the Open Source GPL. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). Openfire is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.
Igniterealtime is a professionally-led (from Jive Software) Open Source community composed of end-users and developers around the world who are interested in applying innovative, open-standards-based Real Time Collaboration to their businesses. We’re aimed at disrupting proprietary, non-open standards-based systems and invite you to participate in what’s already one of the biggest and most active Open Source communities anywhere.
Article: http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/415279:using-openfire-for-realtime-collaboration-on-linux
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The goal of this website is to give an end to end open source solution for a typical small company including Telephony, Document management, Customer Relation Application, Networking, Remote access, Desktop solutions and so on.
Although only the tools/applications have been listed on the website for the moment, a complete network diagram and individual how-to articles will follow.
Please note that for most of the installation instructions, we will not re-invent the wheel. A large number of very competent experts have already written how-to articles, we will just refer you to those. We will only document the missing links between the different components or if we feel that some installations could be better documented.
The KinDev team.
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Please note that the text for each of the blog post is taken from their respective websites. The KinDev team have experimented with those tools at different occasions. Your need and requirements could be different than the ones identified by our team for a specific situation, please take the time to read and understand the tool/application features before starting to install in a production environment.
We hope that you will have as much fun as we have discovering, installing and using those tools/applications and please do not forget to donate to the respective open source volunteers that have changed the IT landscape for ever.
The KinDev team.