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Granular Linux

2009-04-17

abandoned, disliked, glances, Granular Linux, Linux distributions, Linux distributions based on PCLinuxOS, Linux distributions based on Unity Linux, misadventures

Linux distributions + PCLinuxOS >

(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=granular
https://web.archive.org/web/20200122090827/http://www.granularlinux.com/
https://granularproject.org/

I knew about Granular Linux only through Unity Linux. It ended up being a recommendation as a base system from which I could compile various window managers[doesn’t exist] for testing. Well, after having exhausted so many other distributions lately, I decided to give it a shot. Since I had been so dismissive of my earlier efforts, I decided to spend more time with this one.

2014-08-02 – It’s gone.
Was to have switched to Unity Linux, but I don’t think it did.

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Arch Linux

2009-04-16

Arch Linux, disliked, glances, independent Linux distributions, Linux distributions, Linux distributions which use systemd, misadventures

Linux distributions >
See also Linux distributions based on Arch Linux

(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=arch
https://archlinux.org/

Appears to have a good philosophy. In reality it’s over-limited to the point of making life convenient for the developers at the expense of inconveniencing the users.

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Awesome

2009-04-14

Awesome, disliked, freeware, glances, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, software, todo, window managers

Software > Window managers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://awesomewm.org/

A window manager I couldn’t get working.

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Qnext

2009-04-08

abandoned, dead, disliked, freeware, glances, GUI software, hated, instant messager clients, IRC clients, Java software, Linux software, open-source software, software

Software > IRC >

www.qnext.com

An IRC client.

Had issues, the biggest of which was constant window redrawing.

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Instabird

2009-04-08

disliked, freeware, glances, GUI software, instant messager clients, IRC clients, Linux software, open-source software, software, todo

TODO – make a proper page

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CenterIM

2009-04-08

abandoned, commandline software, dead, disliked, freeware, glances, GUI software, instant messager clients, IRC clients, Linux software, open-source software, software, software with Git repositories, todo

TODO – make a proper page
TODO – add my notes

https://github.com/petrpavlu/centerim5
was centerim.org (gone, archives purged?)

Abandoned
- As of 2022-03-11, 5.0.1 was released 2017-04-23 and the source was last updated Dec 15, 2019
- The website is dead.

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Carrier

2009-04-08

disliked, freeware, glances, GUI software, instant messager clients, internet software, IRC clients, Linux software, open-source software, software, XMPP clients

Software > Instant messagers >

https://sourceforge.net/projects/funpidgin/

An instant messager.

Formerly funpidgin
See Pidgin (software) (Formerly Gaim)

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gujin

2009-04-08

boot loaders, commandline software, disliked, freeware, Linux software, open-source software, reviews

Software >

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gujin/

This software boots your PC and analyse your filesystems. It displays a graphical menu for you to select which system to boot. Intended to replace LILO and Loadlin, written in C with GCC, fully real mode.

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