List of Israeli Open-Source Projects
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Large or Very Large Scale Projects
- Medium Scale Projects
- Small Scale Projects
- Linux Distributions
- Web-sites
Introduction
This is a list of Israeli open-source projects that used to reside on the Hackers-IL wiki.
Note: For Perl projects refer to the Israeli Perl Projects list on the Israeli Perl Mongers web-site. You can also find a list of some more Python Projects at the site of the Israeli Pythoneers.
Large or Very Large Scale Projects
PHP - a server-side scripting language that is actively developed by Zend and many other volunteers. Zend is an Israeli company.
MOSIX - a clustering-solution for the Linux kernel. Actively developed by Amnon Barak and his team at the Hebrew University. (Note - there may be some licensing issues)
openMosix - a MOSIX-derivative that professes a more open development model than MOSIX. Formerly actively developed by Qlusters and many other contributors.
Nullsoft Scriptable Install System - a tool for creating sotware installers for Windows programs. Led by Amir Szekely, who is an Israeli. See also its SourceForge "Project of the Month" review.
The Culmus Fonts - a collection of free-as-in-speech Hebrew fonts, by Maxim Iorsh.
The Open Phishing Database - an effort to create and maintain an open database of phishing sites, in addition to providing browser extensions which utilise this database.
LKVM - The Linux Kernel Virtual Machine - has been developed by Qumranet.
Medium Scale Projects
Web Secretary - a program that scans Internet sites and reports when changes are made to them.
Freecell Solver - an ANSI C library and a standalone command line program to solve games of Freecell and similar variants of card Solitaire. Also see this page.
XMMS-Volnorm - a plug-in for XMMS that normalizes the sound volume between the played songs.
XParam - a data serialisation/de-serialisation library for C++.
Hspell - a spell checking program for Hebrew language documents.
Database Super Converter - a cross-database abstraction layer.
MikMod for Java - a player of MOD Files for Java.
Jin - an open source, cross-platform, graphical client for playing chess with other people around the world.
Syscalltrack - a Linux kernel module and accompanying user-land software for tracking system calls. (historical)
ChkTex - a Program for checking the typographical validity of TeX documents.
LibHdate - A small C,C++ library for Hebrew calendar, dates, holidays, and reading sequence. (python, perl and pascal bindings available)
hocr - A Hebrew character recognition c/c++ library. Command line, GNOME and QT graphical user interfaces available.
Krusader - An advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE led by Rafi Yanai & Shie Erlich.
FoxyTunes and other Firefox Extensions by Alex Sirota - see also the mozilla.org page and an Ha'aretz article.
rsyncrypto - rsync friendly file encryption. By Lingnu.
PgOleDb - an OLE DB back-end for PostgreSQL. By Lingnu.
Cube/Tesseract - a 4 dimensional hypercube (Tesseract) game that behaves like Rubiks Cube. By Michael Brand and Shachar Shemesh.
Geresh - a simple, multi-lingual console-based text-editor by Mooffie.
Vamos - On demand computing platform, based on Debian. By Hadar Weiss
Webilder - a Flickr wallpaper downloader. By Nadav Samet.
ELF Statifier - a program to create a completely static ELF executable out of an executable which uses shared libraries. By Valery Resnic.
KBDE - a keyboard emulator for x86 Linux. By Valery Resnic.
E-Book Tools - tools for accessing and converting different file formats of Electronic Books. By Ely Levy.
Mazrim (hebrew for "Streamer") - a Python-based project that aims to help the web-surfers listen to Israeli streaming media.
CppCMS - a C++ Web Development Framework - by Artyom Tonkikh.
BiDiTeX - Bi-Directional Support for LaTeX.
Open Text Summarizer - a library and a program for Automatic Text Summarisation for many languages. See also the Linux.com feature on "Condensing with Open Text Summarizer". By Nadav Rotem.
Small Scale Projects
hcal - Hebrew Calendar for Gtk+
Hdate applet - Hebrew date applet and desktop calendar using the GNOME toolkit.
Hspell GUI - Hspell graphical user interface using the GNOME toolkit.
Autofw - An automatic Firewall script by Baruch Even.
SpacePong - a cool space game by Shlomi Loubaton
pyFribidi - PyFribidi is a simple fribidi binding to python.
sshpass - Non interactive ssh password authentication. By Shachar Shemesh.
NetChat - a network version of the "chat" utlity. By Shachar Shemesh.
FLMLS4PG - Field Level Multilingual Support for PG.
radio.py - easily listen to radio stations from the command line.
Linux Distributions
GNU/Linux Kinneret - a Knoppix based bootable LiveCD which was translated to Hebrew.
Linbrew - a GNU/Linux distribution that is intended for new Israeli users who are looking for built-in Hebrew support and Israeli localization.
Kazit - a Knoppix-derived LiveCD.
Ehad - a remastering of the Mandriva Linux distribution so it will be suitable for the Israeli audience and fit on one CD.
DebianHebrew - a remastering of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution so it will be suitable for the Israeli audience and fit on one CD.
Gentoo Israel - The Gentoo distribution community in israel. Includes wiki, forums and other help for Gentoo users.
Xorcom Rapid - Asterisk Installation from a bootable CD.
CentOS Israel - an Israeli portal for CentOS, the Community Enterprise Operating System.
Web-sites
The Better SCM Site - A web site for discussion and advocacy of Version Control and Source Configuration Management systems.
Limon - Free Hebrew-English-Hebrew dictionary web site.
