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Software, Android >

(on Wikipedia)
(on Google Play, free version)
(on Google Play, pro version)
https://fbreader.org/

An ebook reader.

  • aka Favorite Book Reader



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Zenity infobox

(on Wikipedia)
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/Zenity?action=show&redirect=Zenity [ 1 ] was http://live.gnome.org/Zenity
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Zenity

A program to present a GUI dialog, that lets a scripter get user input.

I didn’t use this for anything notable enough to form an opinion. It seems nice, but I didn’t want to have yet another application, especially one with a dependency, when there’s something commandline already (dialog).

See also:

  • YAD – a fork of Zenity with some dependencies removed.



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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.keepassx.org/

A password manager.

I found KeePassx while exploring replacing Firefox, and when looking at replacing web browser components. I wanted something cross-platform and open source.



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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.joonet.de/lilo/

A boot loader, generally considered less used and less featureful than GRUB.

Although I had used LILO quite a lot in the past, and was doing some interesting things with it, like having multiboots with DOS and rearranging partitions to hide some or change what was primary, I tend to not use a bootloader like that anymore. I expect a distribution to be magical regarding a boot loader.

  • LILO = Linux Loader
  • When LILO breaks, I use boot-repair.



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