GiFT

2005-01-01

commandline software, dead, disliked, freeware, glances, Gnutella, Linux software, open-source software, peer-to-peer, software

Software >

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gift/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gift/

A P2P daemon, which requires a network protocol such as openFT or gnutella. Any number of frontends are also recommended.

So far, giFT has proved to do what it is made for. Most problems will appear to me to be the fault of the frontend, but there may well need to be certain features inserted into either the openFT protocol, the giFT daemon or the frontend.. it’s difficult to say.

The software hasn’t had an update since 07 May 2005!

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Morphix

2004-12-10

abandoned, commandline software, freeware, GUI software, Linux distributions, Linux distributions based on Debian, Linux distributions based on Knoppix, open-source software, software

Software > Linux distributions >

https://web.archive.org/web/20180421214205/http://www.morphix.org:80/

Based on Knoppix and Debian.

Abandoned

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Noteware

2004-12-10

commandline software, dead, DOS software, loved, reviews, software, text editors

Software > Text editors >

A TSR note-taking program.

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FXRuby

2004-10-18

commandline software, freeware, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, Ruby GUI tookits, Ruby software, Ruby toolkits, software

Software >
Ruby GUI toolkits >

(on Wikipedia)
was freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/fxruby/
was fxruby.org
https://rubydoc.info/gems/fxruby/frames
https://github.com/larskanis/fxruby

FXRuby is a Ruby extension module that provides an interface to the FOX GUI library.

FOX (Free Objects for X) is a C++ based class library for building Graphical User Interfaces.

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Instiki

2004-09-30

commandline software, content management software, dead, freeware, GUI software, liked, Linux software, open-source software, Ruby software, software, wiki software

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
(home page archive)
https://github.com/parasew/instiki
https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/wiki/instiki/show/HomePage

I liked it, but it hated me and had horrible bugs.

I tried Instiki because I wanted to learn to program in Ruby and so I thought I could contribute. However, my creativity was badly maimed by the beta-ness of the project as well as a horrific “rollback” data loss issue. These were issues so horrific that the project should have been halted. Sure, the developer had things to do, but in my mind there was no excuse. I was frustrated enough to delete my entire installation, including some of my original work. Among the things deleted was an article I wrote with a simple resolution to the “Slashdot effect“. Sigh.

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Apache

2003-02-26

Apache, commandline software, dead, disliked, freeware, hosting software, internet software, liked, Linux software, open-source software, software

Software > Web servers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://httpd.apache.org/

Web server software.

I used it extensively from probably 2002, maybe earlier, for pre-PHP 4 MediaWiki experimentation. It’s a fucking nightmare. Looking at some references, it might be around Apache 1.3

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