commandline software

Abandoned — “Due to speed issues, especially when compared to pdaXrom‘s excellent work, this project has been concluded and will not be worked on in the future.”
An edit of the existing instructions.
Completely untested.

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cramfs

2006-06-16

commandline software, file systems, freeware, Linux software, open-source software, software

(on Wikipedia)

A single-file compressed filesystem.

Used on the Zaurus SL-C1000.

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Gentoo for Zaurus

2006-06-14

abandoned, commandline software, freeware, GUI software, Linux distributions based on Gentoo, Linux software, open-source software, software, Zaurus distributions

Gentoo >
Zaurus SL-C1000 > Zaurus distributions >

https://web.archive.org/web/20130522141831/http://gentooforzaurus.opensistemas.com/

Based on Gentoo Linux, the Cacko X11 Rom and The Emerde Project.

UPDATE: Check out https://web.archive.org/web/20140102221756/http://www.gentoo.org/news/20090315-new-stages.xml
- https://web.archive.org/web/20101223035729/http://www.opensistemas.com/comunidad/gentoo_for_zaurus/
2010-05-27 – Abandoned – Everything looks dead.
2006-06-14 – Looks interesting, but is very young. Their wiki is being spammed to death.

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Screen

2006-06-11

commandline software, freeware, glances, GNU software, Linux software, live, loved, open-source software, software, terminal multiplexers, todo, utilities

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

A terminal multiplexer

I use it only in fairly dire circumstances, usually when at the TTY console. It’s essential in that circumstance, even if it’s only to lock the console screen (with ^a^x)

aka GNU Screen

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LFTP

2006-06-10

archivism, BitTorrent clients, BitTorrent software, commandline software, data synchronizers, freeware, ftp clients, glances, internet software, liked, Linux software, open-source software, sftp clients, software, software with Git repositories, todo, zombie

(on Wikipedia)
http://lftp.yar.ru/

An FTP-like program which can also Mirror.

I use this to synchronize files over SFTP (SSH).

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df

2006-06-08

BSD software, commandline software, disliked, freeware, glances, liked, Linux software, Linux tools, live, macOS software, open-source software, software, storage

Software >

(on Wikipedia)

A drive usage summary tool.

df

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md5sum

2006-05-07

commandline software, freeware, Linux software, live, loved, open-source software, utilities

(on Wikipedia)
Software >

A file can be “summarized” into a short string. That string can be compared with the file again to determine if it’s the same file. This is often used when downloading a file to check it after the fact. This sort of thing is built into compression software, but using md5sum is way faster/easier because it doesn’t need to put the file in a container and uncompress it to use it.

There are various other programs which do similar things, like sha256sum. These all come with almost all Linux distributions.

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