Journal inasity_rules's Journal: Open Source software you have never heard of... 2
As an electronic engineering student, I used to believe that I still required windows for some software. Thankfully, it turns out not. I have discovered a really cool project; PiKdev. An all in one solution for writing code for the Microchip PIC family including a powerful built in programmer. And it works almost flawlessly. My only complaint is that I had to compile it from source(and install KDE3 libraries) - there is no Mandriva 2009 package. When I get time, I'll make one. It has all the features I need and more. If only it I'd found it sooner.
It made me wonder, what other really cool obscure niche projects are out there? Anyone paying attention to my ramblings care to point out some?
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I've been working with OpenNMS [opennms.org] recently, a full featured network management system. We've got about 2500 employees in 50 offices here at the New Mexico Department of Child, Youth, and Family Development. OpenNMS is enterprise level software written in Java, and using PostgreSQL as a backend. The Jakarta/Tomcat web front end, the network management daemon, and the database can all reside on separate servers, and it supports distributed polling, so the system is very scalable.
It scans networks for devices, sc
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