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Standards

- General

• Open Standards Definition (Attempt to describe the term open standard in a more concise way)
• Operating System Interface Standardization (from the Operating Systems section)
• RFC index ("Request for Comments". A system of notes about the Internet, of which some are official/defacto Internet standards) (RCF index) (STD)

- Character Encodings & Internationalization

• ASCII (History of Character Codes)
• Unicode (UTF-8 Sampler) (Unicode/UTF-8 on POSIX systems)
• OpenI18N.org (GNU/Linux Internationalization Initiative)

- Network Protocols

• RPSL ("Routing Policy Specification Language")
• IPv4 (Fundamental packet format and addressing scheme for the Internet network)
• IPv6 6Bone (IPv6 portal. Updated IP version, with several important improvements.)
• IPsec (Public key security mechanisms for the IP protocol family)
• TCP ("Transmission Control Protocol". Reliable IP-datagram byte streaming protocol for the Internet and other packet-switching networks)
• UDP (User Datagram Protocol. Unreliable IP-datagram byte streaming protocol for the Internet and other packet-switching networks)
• LDAP RFC's (Standard LDAP schema's catalog)
• SCTP references (Reliable, message-oriented, multihomed transport protocol in development by the IETF) (ml)
• DNS references (DNSsec)
• Secure Shell
• Email related RFC's
• HTTP references
• SIP ("Session Initiation Protocol". A signaling protocol for Internet based video conferencing, telephony, instant messaging and presence/events notification.) (wp) (SIPfoundry.org community site for the promotion and development of SIP software) (ml)
• H.232 (Packet-based multimedia communications system protocol) (H.232 v SIP comparison)
• SNMP RFCs ("Simple Network Management Protocol". Protocol for monitoring and configuring network devices)
• VOIP Wiki ("Voice Over IP". Wiki guide for VOIP)
• MRML ("Multimedia Retrieval Markup Language")
• BitTorrent (Peer-to-peer system for distributing large files)
• IEEE 802.x Wireless Networking

- File Formats & Interfaces

• Inter Office Suite XML (Project to create standard file-formats, based on XML technology, for inter-changing files between the various office suites.) (source) (ml)
• OpenPGP RFC (Public-private key based, document signing/encrypting framework)
• HTML ("HyperText Markup Language". Markup language for world-wide-web content.)
• CSS ("Cascading Style Sheets". Stylization language for HTML documents) (Eric Meyer CSS site)
• XML ("Extensible Markup Language". Flexible language discription to allow for the description of the format of structured documents and data)
• DOM ("Document Object Model". Enables applications to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of XML documents)
• SAX ("Simple API for XML". Lightweight - and less political - DOM alternative aimed at handling 'streamed' XML data.) (cvs) (ml)
• XSLT ("eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation". XSLT is a XML based language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents)
• XSL ("eXtensible Stylesheet Language". XML/XSLT based language description for expressing XML stylesheets.)
• PNG ("Portable Network Graphics". Lossless image file format.) (PNGcrush optimizer) (MNG specification Animated PNG image format)
• SVG ("Scalable Vector Graphics". XML based vector drawing/interaction language.)
• SMIL ("Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language". 'Smile' enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations.)
• Internet Calendering and Group Scheduling (IETF proposed calendering standards: iCal, iTip, iMip, and CAP)
• International Date Format (ISO standard 8601, an example: 2002-1-1)
• CGI ("Common Gateway Interface". Simple interface for running external programs, software or gateways under an information server in a platform-independent manner.)
• FastCGI (Language independent, open extension to CGI, that provides better performance due to process persistance.)
• Reverse-engineered DVD-Video Information
• SOAP ("Simple Object Access Protocol". Lightweight and flexible protocol framework for the exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment)
• UDDI ("Universal Description, Discovery and Integration". Experimental 'business-services' communication project based on DNS/HTTP/XML/SOAP.)
• SLP ("Service Location Protocol". Experimental protocol allows networking applications to discover the existence, location, and configuration of networked services.) (ml)
• SAML ("Security Assertion Markup Language". SAML is used for the formation and exchange of authentication, attribute, and authorization data as XML) (OpenSAML a C++ library implementing of SAML)

- Graphical Interfaces

• OpenGL (Advanced 3D graphics API) Licensing details.)
• FreeDesktop.org (Support site for interoperability among free desktop environments) (cvs) (ml)
• ICCCM ("Inter-Client Communication Conventions". X windowing system based protocol operations for inter-client communication)
• XDND (Drag-and-Drop Protocol for the X windowing system)

Programming Languages

• Programming Languages (from the Programming Languages section)

Data Structures & Algorithms Documentation

• "Data Structures and Algorithms" (by John Morris)
• "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (Computer science book)
• Regular Expressions introduction course
• Regular Expressions: Generating Finite Automata (NFA and DFA explained)

Developer Documentation

• LinuxDoc Library
• Linux Manual Pages (Including links to several man-page translation projects)
• Autobook
• Autoconf Introduction
• GCC Documentation
• GNU C Coding Guidelines
• Program Library HowTo
• Processes and signals introduction
• Memory & pointers tutorial
• Technetcast (Audio and video recordings of computer science related presentations)

Secure Programming Documentation

• Secure Programming HowTo
• OSSTMM (Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual)
• Sardonix (DARPA funded free software source code auditing infrastructure. Inactive project.)

Usability Documentation

• OpenUsability.org (Project to help bring free software developers and usability experts together) (projects) (forum)
• "GNOME Human Interface Guidelines"
• "KDE User Interface Guidelines"
• Usability for Free Software
• Planet HCI (journal aggregation about Human-computer interaction developments)
• UserInstinct.com (Usability news)
• flossusability.org (Usability event)

Source Code Documentation Tools

• Doxygen (C++ based sourcecode documentation system for C, C++, IDL, and other languages) (cvs) (ml)
• Synopsis (Python based sourcecode documentation system for C++, Python, and IDL) (cvs) (ml)
• Webcpp (Converts source code into HTML)
• GNU Global (Source code tag system for C, C++, and other languages) (cvs)
• CWEB (TeX based source code documentation system)
• ScanDoc (Perl based C++ sourcecode documentation system. License: Artistic License. Inactive project.) (cvs)
• SLOCCount (Source code metrics tool, aimed at counting the number of physical source code lines.)
• CCCC (C/C++ source code metrics tool. License: none, it is public domain.)

Source Code Scanners

• Flawfinder (Python based security auditing tool for C/C++ source code)
• Splint ("Secure Programming Lint". Security auditing utility for C source code) (cvs) (ml)
• RATS ("Rough Auditing Tools". Security auditing utility for C/C++ source code)
• RTL-Check (Python based security auditing tool for C/C++ source code) (ml)

Software Testing

• TETware ("Test Environment Toolkit". Multi-platform, distributed, software testing framework. License: Artistic License)

Integrated Development Environments

• GNU build system (from the GNU Project page)
• Kdevelop (KDE based IDE) (ml)
• KInterDev (KDE based IDE) (cvs)
• Kconfigure (KDE based GNU autoconf front-end)
• Kbabel (KDE based Internationalization tool)
• Anjuta (GNOME based IDE for C and C++. Will be renamed to Scaffold.) (lxr) (ml)
• OpenLDev (GTK+/Gtkmm based IDE) (cvs)
• Motor (Ncurses based IDE, with support for: CVS, Makefiles, Autoconf, Automake, ctags, gdb) (ml)
• TIA (Tiny IDE for Ada. Ncurses based IDE, with language support for: Ada, C and C++. License: GMGPL, a modified GNU GPL licence.
• Buildtool (Alternative to the GNU build system, which aims to be more integrated and less verbose with file output. License: BSD-style) (cvs)

Decompilers

• Boomerang (Binary-to-C program decompiler) (cvs) (ml)
• uncc (Binary-to-C program decompiler) (cvs) (ml)

Debuggers & Profilers

• GDB (Debugger) (cvs) (ml)
• Kdbg (KDE based GUI for the GNU Debugger)
• DDD (LessTif based GUI for console debuggers such as: GDB, DBX, WDB, Ladebug, JDB, XDB, the Perl debugger, and the Python debugger) (ml)
• strace (System call tracing tool) (cvs) (ml)
• ltrace (Dynamic library and system call tracing tool)
• Kprof (KDE based GUI for visualizing the execution profiling output generated by code profilers)
• Valgrind (Memory debugger for x86-compatible GNU/Linux systems)
• KCachegrind (KDE based GUI frontend for Valgrind's Cachegrind profiler for x86-GNU/Linux)
• MemCheckDeluxe (Memory debugger for x86-based GNU/Linux and Win32 platforms)
• LeakTracer (C++ memory allocation debugger for new/delete calls)
• Protoscope (HTTP proxy tool for web developers who want to trace the HTTP communication) (ml)
• ldcheck (Tool to look for incorrect and/or missing dependencies, and to recommend which package(s) should be considered for recompilation/reinstallation. Inactive project.) (ml)

Conceptual Diagramming

• Umbrello (KDE based UML editor for C++ source code) (cvs) (cvs)
• KlassModeler (wxWidgets based UML editor for C++ source code)
• Kivio (KDE based general-purpose diagramming tool with python support. Inactive project.)
• Dia (GNOME based vector general-purpose drawing tool) (lxr) (ml)
• DRT ("Design Recovery Tool". Tool to record and visualize the use of interactive graphical applications in X)

GUI Builders

• QT Designer (Qt GUI buidler with optional KDE widget support)
• Glade (GNOME based GUI builder)

CVS Revision Tools

• CVS (Concurrent Version control System) (book) (CVS Client SSL Patch) (WinCVS M$ MFC based CVS client)
• CVSNT (Port of of the CVS pserver to M$ windows NT) (cvs) (ml)
• Meta-CVS (Version control system created around CVS. It retains most of the features of CVS while adding support for directories, symbolic links, file permissions and user-defined properties. Meta-CVS also tries to simplify branching and merging.
• ccvssh (Tool to setup a secure link to connect to remote CVS pservers using SSL tunneling) (cvs)
• cvsfs (Tool to mount a CVS repository tree as a local file system) (cvs) (ml)
• cvsd (Wrapper program to run a 'cvs pserver' under a special uid/gid in a chroot jail)
• cvsps (CVS patchset is a tool to create 'patchset' information from a CVS repository)
• cvs2html (Perl script to convert 'cvs log' output to HTML)
• cvs2cl (Perl script to convert 'cvs log' output to ChangeLog lines)
• cvs2svn (Python script to convert a CVS repository to a Subversion repository) (svn) (ml) (deb)
• Cervisia (KDE based CVS client)
• CvsGui (GTK+ based CVS client with scripting support via Python or Tcl) (cvs)
• ViewCVS (Web based CVS viewer)
• CVSweb (Web based CVS viewer)
• cvsmonitor (Perl/CGI script to browse trough a CVS repository)
• CVSTrac (Web based bug and patch-set tracking system for CVS)
• cvsknit (CVS utility to allowing freshly added CVS files to keep their original time stamp)

Other Revision Tools

• Subversion (Distributed, revision control system, which is meant to be a CVS alternative. License: BSD-style) (source code) (ml) (Subversion book) (deb) (svn2cl tool to create a change-log from a subversion repository log) (eSvn Qt based GUI front-end for Subversion)
• monotone (Distributed revision control system based on: C++, SQLite, rsync, Lua and some other components) (cvs) (ml)
• Darcs ('David's Advanced Revision Control System'. Haskell based distributed, client-focussed, revision control system) (source) (ml) (deb)
• Arch (Distributed, client-focussed, revision control system) (ml) (deb)
• Katie (Revision control system based on Perl, NFS/RPC and PostgreSQL) (ml)
• Aegis (Revision control system with a focus on scalability and usability) (ml)
• Vesta (Revision control and 'make' system)
• PRCS (Project Revision Control System. Frontend to a set of CVS-like tools for file and directory revisioning) (cvs)
• OpenCM (Revision control system, which is meant to be a CVS alternative)
• CSCCS (Revision control system, which is compatible with the non-free SCCS revision control system) (cvs) (ml)

Project Management

• GForge (New SourceForge-based code fork, to start stimulating and possibly merge the other forked SourceForge-based projects) forum)
• Savannah (SourceForge code fork)
• Sourceforge (Web based software development system which formed the basis for GForge)
• CodeStriker (Perl/CGI based web tool for performing collaborative code reviews) (cvs) (ml)
• Bugzilla (Web based bug tracking system)
• Bosco (PHP based web based bug tracking system inspired by Bugzilla) (cvs)