TODO – add my notes, and scripts
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Software > Text editors >
(on Wikipedia)
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/
https://nano-editor.org/
The license-unencumbered version of Pico.
Small, easy. Needs some basic functionality but is still quite useful.
formerly: TIP (TIP Isn’t Pico)
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(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/geeqie/
http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/
A straightforward and lightweight image viewer.
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Software > Web browsers >
(on Wikipedia)
Linux > http://www.palemoon.org/
http://www.palemoon.org/
A web browser which is essentially a fork of Firefox. Pale Moon keeps the simpler UI before the astonishingly terrible changes Firefox made.
A very good browser. Newer addons targeting the latest Firefox which are addicted to its new interface will not work with Pale Moon, since Pale Moon lacks that interface. Older addons or proper UI-agnostic addons will work fine.
poweroff replaces halt for how I was using it.
I finally took some time to look into why halt wasn’t powering off my computer. This was a very long-standing bug, and it was odd that something so obvious would go unfixed.
Provided by the package “pm-utils”
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A program, or Perl script, which does regular expression-enhanced batch renaming.
Essential.
See also:
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Software > BitTorrent >
(on Wikipedia)
https://git.deluge-torrent.org/deluge
https://deluge-torrent.org/
A BitTorrent client.
It can’t copy magnet links, so it’s best to not use it.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Syslinux_Project [ 1 ] was https://web.archive.org/web/20191231072326/https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Syslinux_Project
A bootloader with various companion tools.
Seems fantastic, but only in the sense that various other tools use it in magical automated ways.
https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTerminal
A straightforward terminal emulator.
tabbed
See also:
Xfterm, which might have come first.
Software > Scripting Languages >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.zsh.org/
A shell.
Though not usually available for a Linux distribution, it’s exceptionally powerful enough that I insist upon it.
Default for macOS.
aka Z shell
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Software > Scripting Languages >
This is the “base language” for shell scripting under Linux.
This is generally known as “the vanilla shell”.
My scripts are hosted in a git repository.
