https://pypi.org/project/psutil/
(probably) a suite of various tools which do things and stuff.
I needed pidof.
freeware
All posts tagged freeware
A sound player thingy.
I’ve got it, I don’t know if I care, though. Noted here for completeness.
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2016-03-31, it comes with Slackware 14.1
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(on Wikipedia)
http://mplayerhq.hu/
The official frontend for MPlayer.
Quite good.
- GUI M_Player
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Can use .Xmodmap for volume control at least.
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https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/system/slpkg/
https://dslackw.gitlab.io/slpkg/
https://git.slackbuilds.org/
SlackBuilds.org
A Slackware source-based package manager.
Easy to use.
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NOTE – you don’t have to have slpkg installed to compile a SlackBuild-supported program from source.
- Instructions are below.
slpkg
Don’t mistake this for the movie Alien – (1979 movie)
(on Wikipedia)
https://joeyh.name/code/alien/
A tool to convert between package management types.
Mandatory for getting software working which does not have a maintainer for one’s current distribution.
- ~ 2015-02 – alien is no longer maintained
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https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Isohybrid
Though it can do other stuff, I use this to edit ISO images meant to be burned to a CD or DVD, to make them appropriate for copying to, and booting from, a USB stick.
Phenomenal. I wish I knew about this a long time ago. I’ve ignored many Linux distributions because of the very issue this tool solves.
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Linux distributions + Debian >
https://launchpad.net/~yannubuntu/+archive/ubuntu/boot-repair
https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/
Automagically repairs a boot loader.
This is something I wish I had/knew about a long time ago. I’ve had bootloader misadventures that really stressed me out.
I’ll accept this, even though it uses systemd.
See also:
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Linux distributions + Debian >
Software > GParted
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gparted
https://gparted.org/ [ 1 ] was https://gparted.sourceforge.io/
A Linux system rescue disk.
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Note that GParted is included on SystemRescueCD
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