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.
Footnotes
Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/strigi/
A search tool that I couldn’t get working.
Abandoned – As of 2020-07-05 0.7.8 was released 2013-02-05
Software >
https://sourceforge.net/projects/disksearch/
was saring.de/disksearch/index.html
A removable disk cataloger (e.g. for DVDs).
Abandoned – Removed from the website and not available on the author’s GitHub.
(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.
See also:
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Software >
http://cdcat.sourceforge.net/web/uk/index.html
Creates a searchable XML database of files on removable media.
This appears to be variously called CdCatalog, Cdcat, The cdcat and Hyper’s CD Catalogizer.
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Software > Linux optical drives >
https://projects.tuxfamily.org/?do=group;name=graveman
CD/DVD burning software. A frontend for: cdrecord, mkisofs, readcd, sox, flac, dvd+rw-format/dvd+rw-tools, cdrdao
Wonderful!
Software >
http://cade.noxrun.com/projects/qvv/ [ 1 ] was http://cade.datamax.bg/qvv/
An image viewer.
Doesn’t let me continue viewing to the next image.
Footnotes
http://www.emma-soft.com/projects/epdfview/
A lightweight PDF viewer.
Abandoned – the website is gone
Software > Programming >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.python.org/
coming later
I had originally fallen in love with Ruby with the hopes of being able to use it on 16-bit DOS computers, but didn’t turn out to be possible. Since then I had stuck with it to tinker around quite a lot. But it turns out that a vast amount more programs are written in Python. Since my experiences with Ruby GUI toolkits were just horrifying, and all the Python GUI stuff I’ve seen is awesome, I think I’ll check things out.
I didn’t end up looking into Python much, but I have a bunch of notes.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/*/pygtk.org
A GUI toolkit for Python.
I really noticed this after working with the Deluge BitTorrent client.
