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Software > BitTorrent >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.bittornado.com/

A hacker’s BitTorrent client.

I had used this for a while, but using something like it is a bit frustrating for me. It’s rarely updated and is lacking a number of convenience features.

I was thinking of hacking some solutions to my grievances when I just got frustrated and dumped it to try Deluge again.

  • Abandoned: As of 2019-11-21, version 0.3.18 was released on 2006-12-24.



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Software > PDF >

https://www.foxit.com/ [ 1 ] was https://www.foxitsoftware.com/ [ 2 ] was http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/desklinux/

A PDF reader. I believe this was a free edition, but I’m not sure if it was restricted in any way. I’m pretty sure this was never open source.

I couldn’t get it working, but didn’t try very hard.

  • Abandoned? I can’t see anything directly Linux-related any longer.

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Software > Window managers >

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

One of the more popular window managers.

I tried it a long time ago. Tested very briefly. Strongly dislike because of speed issues. Didn’t test for long enough to learn about the style of applications etc. I’ve developed a bias against Gnome in preference for KDE for reasons I can’t articulate. Gnome is kinda pretty, but KDE keeps my attention.

  • Gnome 2 was forked and continued by a new team as MATE.

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