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• Name: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) Project
  Website: http://www.alsa-project.org/
  Contact: perex@suse.cz
  Description: Primary goals are create modern sound driver for Linux with new sound API which solves all OSS/Lite trouble and create good libraries for sound applications

• Name: BLINUX
  Website: http://www.leb.net/blinux/
  Contact: hzo@leb.net
  Description: The purpose of The BLINUX Documentation and Development Project is to serve as a catalyst which will both spur and speed the development of software and documentation which will enable the blind user to run his or her own Linux workstation.

• Name: Coda Distributed File System Project
  Website: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/
  Contact: coda@cs.cmu.edu
  Description: Coda is a distributed filesystem with its origin in AFS2. It has many features that are very desirable for network filesystems, including: disconnected operation for mobile computing; high performance through client side persistent caching server replication; continued operation during partial network failures in server network; network bandwith adaptation; good scalability; and well defined semantics of sharing, even in the presence of network failures.

• Name: Common Unix Printing System
  Website: http://www.cups.org/
  Description: The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIX operating systems. It has been developed by Easy Software Products to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces.

• Name: ConcurrentLock
  Website: http://www.checco.com/checcolock
  Description: Concurrentlock sync objects allow true multi-threaded CONCURRENT READ and EXCLUSIVE WRITE access to any C++ class or element. More robust than pthread_rwlock, and can be used in both Linux and Win32 applications.

• Name: Content Filtering Internet Proxy - SafeSquid
  Website: http://www.safesquid.com/
  Contact: information**AT**safesquid.net
  Description: SafeSquid is a Content Filtering Proxy Server. Browser based interface, very fast throughput, DNS caching, content caching, prefetching, bandwidth control, virus scan Source, Target & Time based granular FireWall style rules to allow / deny content like music, videos, flash & java applets, messengers, chats, cookies, activex, scripts, etc. Remote authentication, real-time text and image analysis for blocking pornography. Live remote support.

• Name: DMX4Linux
  Website: http://llg.cubic.org/dmx4linux/
  Contact: http://llg.cubic.org
  Description: DMX4Linux is a port of DMX - a standard protocol to control light in theaters and discos.

• Name: DOSEMU Project
  Website: http://www.dosemu.org/
  Contact: lermen@dosemu.org
  Description: DOSEMU stands for DOS Emulation and is a Linux application that enables the Linux OS to run many DOS programs including some DPMI apps.

• Name: External Parallel Port Devices
  Website: http://www.torque.net/parport/
  Description: If you have a parallel port peripheral and would like to see if a Linux driver is available, this is the place to look.

• Name: FlightGear
  Website: http://www.flightgear.org
  Contact: Curtis Olson
  Description: A comprehensive flight simulator program based on OpenGL/Mesa. Includes terrain generation tools, a programmable flight dynamics model, sound effects, weather generation, etc.

• Name: floppyfw
  Website: http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
  Contact: Thomasez@zelow.no
  Description: floppyfw is a static router with the firewall-capabilities in Linux. Boot one (1) floppy and have a firewall with a gateway and DHCP. Great for cable modems and xDSL.

• Name: Freeciv
  Website: http://www.freeciv.org/
  Contact: freeciv-dev@freeciv.org
  Description: Freeciv is a multiplayer strategy game, released under the GNU General Public License. It is generally comparable with Civilization II, published by Microprose

• Name: FREEdraft Project
  Website: http://freeengineer.org/Freedraft/index.html
  Contact: iamcliff@ix.netcom.com
  Description: A simple 2D mechanical cad system for Linux in development.

• Name: FreeHDL Project
  Website: http://www.freehdl.seul.org/
  Contact: http://www.freehdl.seul.org/help.html
  Description: A project to develop a free, opensource, GPLed VHDL simulator for Linux.

• Name: GAMMA Name: Genoa Active Message MAchine
  Website: http://www.disi.unige.it/project/gamma/
  Contact: chiola**AT**disi.unige.it
  Description: GAMMA is a Fast Ethernet LAN of up to 12 Pentium PCs currently used as an efficient parallel platform for Single Program Multiple Data (SPMD) as well as MIMD applications.

• Name: GGI (General Graphics Interface) Project
  Website: http://www.ggi-project.org/
  Contact: becka@ggi-project.org
  Allows fast, easy to use access to graphical services, hides hardware level issues from applications and introduces extensible support for multiple displays and varied input facilities under Linux.

• Name: Gimp Project
  Website: http://www.gimp.org/
  Contact: yosh@gimp.org
  Descritption: The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

• Name: The GIMP Toolkit
  Website: http://www.gtk.org
  Contact: http://www.gtk.org/mailinglists.html
  Description: GTK+, which stands for the GIMP Toolkit, is a library for creating graphical user interfaces for the X Window System. It is designed to be small, efficient, and flexible. GTK+ is written in C with a very object-oriented approach. Language bindings exist for C++, Perl, Python, Objective C, and Guile and others.

• Name: GNOKII project
  Website: http://www.gnokii.org/
  Contact: gnokii-request@net.lut.ac.uk (write "subcribe" in e-mail subject header)
  The aim of this project is to connect Linux boxes to the net by way of cellular phones (like the Nokia Data Cellular Suite).

• Name: GNOME Project
  Website: http://www.gnome.org
  Contact: http://www.gnome.org
  Description: GNOME stands for GNU Network Object Model Environment. The GNOME project intends to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. GNOME is part of the GNU project, and GNOME is part of the OpenSource(tm) movement. The desktop will consist of small utilities and larger applications which share a consistent look and feel. GNOME uses GTK+ as the GUI toolkit for all GNOME-compliant applications.

• Name: GnuCash
  Website: http://www.gnucash.org/
  Contact: linas@linas.org
  Description: The GnuCash Project is an effort to create a quality financial management software for the Unix environment. X-Accountant and GnoMoney have merged to create this new project.

• Name: GNU Project
  Website: http://www.gnu.org/
  Contact: gnu@gnu.org
  Description: Goal is to develop a complete free Unix-like operating system. Linux-based varients of the GNU system are widely used.

• Name: GNU Electronic Design Automation (gEDA)Project
  Website: http://www.geda.seul.org/
  Contact: ahvezda@geda.seul.org
  Description: A collection of tools used to make electronic simulation and prototyping / production easier.

• Name: GNUstep Project
  Website: http://www.gnustep.org/
  Contact: gnustep-maintainer@gnu.org
  Description: A free implementation of the OpenStep specification as published by NeXT and Sun.

• Name: GNUstepWeb Project
  Website: http://www.gnustepweb.org/
  Contact: info@gnustepweb.org
  Description: GNUstepWeb is a library which was designed to be compatible with WebObjects 4.x (developed by NeXT (now Apple) Inc.). It's based on the GNUstep project.

• Name: Harbour Project
  Website: http://www.harbour-project.org/
  Description: An open source Clipper-compatible compiler

• Name: High-Availability Linux Project
  Website: http://www.linux-ha.org/
  Description: Provides a high-availability (clustering) solution for Linux which promotes reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) through a community development effort.

• Name: KBasic
  Website: http://www.kbasic.de
  Contact: webmaster@kbasic.de
  Description: KBasic is a programming language which brings a complete BASIC to KDE. It will include ad IDE with a form designer and a complete binding to KDE like controls (CommandButton, TextBox, ComboBox, Image, Html) and the other KDE features.

• Name: The K Desktop Environment Project (KDE)
  Website: http://www.kde.org/
  Contact: http://www.kde.org
  Description: The K desktop environment provides an integrated desktop for Unix workstations which combines ease of use, contemporary functionality and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system.

• Name: Lazarus Project
  Website: http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org
  Contact: Not available
  Description: Lazarus is a project to create class libraries for Free Pascal that emulate Delphi in order to create Delphi-like applications for Linux and other major OS platforms

• Name: LessTif Project
  Website: http://www.lesstif.org/
  Contact: lesstif@hungry.com
  Description: A clone of the Motif toolkit. LessTif is source compatible with OSF/Motif® 1.2

• Name: Linmodems Project
  Website: http://www.linmodems.org/
  Contact: Mailing list links located on the page.
  Description: A central source of information and source code on adapting winmodems to Linux.

• Name: Linux drivers for Conexant modem chipsets project!
  Website: http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/
  Contact: marc+cnxt_AT_mbsi.ca
  Description: The aim of the project is to make decent drivers for Conexant modem chipsets available to the Linux community.

• Name : Linux for Chemistry
  Website : http://www.randomfactory.com/lfc/lfc.html
  Contact : rfactory@theriver.com
  Description : The Linux for Chemistry project (LfC) is dedicated to compiling the most comprehensive collection of Chemistry software, and making it available for the Linux operating system. LfC provides point-and-click installation, a complete on-line library of searchable documentation, and much more

• Name: Linux IEEE-1394 (FireWire) Driver Development Project
  Website: http://www.linux1394.org/
  Contact: bcollins -at- debian.org
  Description: Goal is to add add 1394 support to Linux that allows easy plug-in of new hardware drivers (mainly PCI-to-1394 host adapters) as well as plug-in of high-level services (i. e. video, disks, printing etc.)

• Name: Linux IR Project
  Website: http://www.cs.uit.no/linux-irda/
  Contact: dagb@cs.uit.no
  Description: Goal is to incorporate an IrDA compliant protocol stack into the Linux kernel. IrDATM is an industrial standard for infrared wirless communication between laptops and devices such as printers, modems, fax, LAN, and other laptops.

• Name: Linux Network Address Translation Project
  Website: http://www.linas.org/linux/load.html
  Contact: linas@linas.org
  Description: Network Address Translation (NAT) is a vitally important Internet technology that provides load balancing for parallel processing, strong access security, fault-tolerance and high-availability.

• Name: Linux Performance Measurement Project
  Website: http://www.volny.cz/linux_monitor/
  Contact: linux_monitor@volny.cz
  Description: Family of monitoring tools which examined content of Linux's /proc directory and shows it in human readable form

• Name: Linux Test Project (LTP)
  Website: http://ltp.sourceforge.net
  Description: The Linux Test Project is a joint project with SGI?, IBM, OSDL, and Bull with a goal to deliver test suites to the open source community that validate the reliability, robustness, and stability of Linux. The Linux Test Project is a collection of tools for testing the Linux kernel and related features. Our goal is to improve the Linux kernel by bring test automation to the kernel testing effort. Interested open source contributors are encouraged to join the project.

• Name: Linux USB Project
  Website: http://www.linux-usb.org/
  Contact: inaky@peloncho.fis.ucm.es
  Description: Porting Linux to the USB (Universal Serial Bus) device.

• Name: Mesa
  Webside: http://www.mesa3d.org
  Contact: Brian Paul
  Description: Mesa is a 3D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL. Whilst Mesa is predominantly a Linux package, there are versions for several other OS's.

• Name: MUSCLE
  Website: http://www.linuxnet.com/smartcard/index.html
  Contact: corcordt@cs.purdue.edu
  Description: Movement for the Use of Smart Cards in a Linux Environment This project deals with writing drivers and API's for various smartcards, and smartcard readers.

• Name: NTFS for Linux Project
  Website: http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
  Contact: loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de
  Description: Project to develop reliable and full feature access to NTFS by the Linux kernel driver, and by a user space filesystem (ntfsmount), and to provide a wide collection of NTFS utilities (ntfsprogs) and a developer's library (libntfs) for other GPLed programs

• Name: Open Source Audio Library Project
  Website: http://osalp.sourceforge.net
  Contact: forsberg@adnc.com
  Description: C++ class library to perform audio functions. Allows application developers to add audio support for their applications with little effort.

• Name: Rule Set Based Access Control (RSBAC) for Linux Project
  Website: http://www.rsbac.org
  Contact: rsbac@rsbac.org
  Description: RSBAC is an open source security extension for current Linux kernels. A general goal of RSBAC has been to some day reach (obsolete) Orange Book (TCSEC) B1 level. Now it is mostly targeting to be useful as secure and multi-purposed networked system, with special interest in firewalls.
  

• Name: SANE Project
  Website: www.sane-project.org/
  Contact: http://www.sane-project.org/mailing-lists.html
  Description: SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, hand-held scanner, video- and still-cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.).

• Name: ScriptBasic Project
  Website: http://scriptbasic.com/
  Contact: ScriptBasic Project
  The ScriptBasic project aims to deliver a BASIC syntax scripting language to the Linux community that can be used by less-technical users. The implementation aims the same role under Linux that VBS has under Win32

• Name: SGI/Linux Project
  Website: http://www.linux.sgi.com/
  Contact: Tom Murphy
  Description: Goal is to bring SGI/Linux to a state where it boots multiuser, is self-hosted, runs X Windows, and suports as many userland RPMs as possible.

• Name: SGI Open Source
  Website: http://oss.sgi.com/
  Contact: Tom Murphy
  Description: oss.sgi.com, is our repository for open source. It is running on an SGI system with a 100% open source content as a proof that open source not only works better, but is also ready for prime time in production settings.

• Name: UDE Project
  Website: http://udeproject.sourceforge.net/
  Description: The UDE - Unix Desktop Environment Project is a new Window Manager and GUI project to create a fast and easy to use Window Manager and GUI for most Unix-like operating systems.

• Name:VideoLAN Project
  Website: http://www.videolan.org
  Contact: webadmin@via.ecp.fr
  Description: VideoLAN is a project of students from the École Centrale Paris. Its aim is to broadcast video on the campus, and provide the students with a MPEG2 software decoder. It will support streams from a satellite, a DVD or an MPEG2 compression card.
  

• Name: The Wine Project
  Website: http://www.winehq.com/
  Contact: info@winehq.com
  Description: Documentation of the Wine emulator that allows MS Windows applications to run on ix86 Unix Systems, including Linux.

• Name: WorldForge
  Website: http://www.worldforge.org
  Contact: general@worldforge.org
  Description: The WorldForge Project is developing a complete system for massive multiplayer online role-playing games. Previously known as Altima.