Software >
A Ruby shell.
Uh, it doesn’t look sane at all. I’ll pass. It requires Mongrel too. Fail.
Google >
was gears.google.com
http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/stopping-gears.html
Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser.
There’s no way in hell will I use something that grabs system access like this.
2011-03-11 it was thankfully abandoned.
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Linux distributions >
See also Linux distributions based on Unity Linux
(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=unity
was unitylinux.org
Some developers left PCLinuxOS and founded this new distro with others.
It was aimed toward making an easily mklivecd-remasterable base distribution.
As of 2016-04-18 there is some activity again, but they are a ways away from anything release-quality.
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Software (Programming) >
(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/bamboo/boo
boo-lang.org
2019-11-22 – The main website is dead and the project hasn’t been modified in 6 years
Inspired by Python and Ruby. Compiles into a Common Intermediate Language and then into an executable that can be run by mono.
I tinkered with it and didn’t like it.
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Software > BitTorrent >
(on Wikipedia)
http://www.bittornado.com/
A hacker’s BitTorrent client.
I had used this for a while, but using something like it is a bit frustrating for me. It’s rarely updated and is lacking a number of convenience features.
I was thinking of hacking some solutions to my grievances when I just got frustrated and dumped it to try Deluge again.
Abandoned: As of 2019-11-21, version 0.3.18 was released on 2006-12-24.
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Software >
www.autofs.org [ 1 ] (archive)
Automatically mount stuff like CD-ROM disks when inserted.
Software >
https://sourceforge.net/projects/disksearch/
was saring.de/disksearch/index.html
A removable disk cataloger (e.g. for DVDs).
Abandoned – Removed from the website and not available on the author’s GitHub.
Discontinued
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kate
was kateos.org
Very nice, but rough around the edges – doesn’t detect my video well. v4 of this distro looks very promising!
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Olive
https://web.archive.org/web/20090126035642/http://isteve.bofh.cz:80/~isteve/olive/
Abandoned – Discontinued