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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/
“The GNU Find Utilities” is one of those packages that’s installed everywhere. find is one of those programs everyone ends up using and ends up being horrified at.
aka GNU Find Utilities
See also:
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Uses:
A secure “jail” for software to run in and not see or touch the rest of the filesystem.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/iwamatsu/slim
https://www.berlios.de/software/slim/ [ 1 ] was slim.berlios.de
It seemed nice, but it wasn’t ready for life when I tested it.
abandoned – as of 2020-06-01 not updated since 2013-10-02
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(on Wikipedia)
(comes with X windows)
A basic display manager, to let the user boot into a login screen.
It gets the job done. It lacks user-switching and poweroff/suspend functionality.
XDM = X Window Display Manager
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There are several pages for it, but I have this one working:
https://github.com/dlitz/xtoolwait
Xtoolwait notably decreases the startup time of an X session by reducing the load on the X server and Linux.
It starts an X client in the background, waits for a window to be mapped on the root window, and then exits. It can improve performance for users who start a bunch of X clients automatically (for example, xterm, xlock, xconsole, whatever) when the X session starts.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
CheckInstall will run make install (or whatever you tell it to run) and keep track of every file modified by this installation.
When it is done, CheckInstall will create a package and install it as a standard package. It will leave you a copy of the installed package in the source directory for your re-use.
An IRC client.
Hey, not bad once it’s been configured.
