Linux software

KDE on Windows

2009-05-15

disliked, freeware, glances, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, software, stupidity, todo, Windows, Windows software

TODO – make a proper page

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TODO – add any notes and make a more complete review

Linux email clients >

(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: claws-mail
https://www.claws-mail.org/ (on Windows)

A light and capable email client.

POP3, POP before SMTP, APOP, IMAP4rev1, IMAP over SSH, IMAP CAPABILITY, mh, SMTP, SMTP AUTH, NNTP, SSL/TLS, full OpenPGP support, external editors, filtering, muliple identities. Good multilanguage and character set support.

Uses the MH Message Handling System.
Can import the Mbox format.

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Software > Web browsers >
Internet security >

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

Tor can be thought of like a secure proxy.

I experimented with it during my research on Replacing Firefox.

UPDATE: Tor has been subverted for some time. I know when and how, with confirmation, but not by whom.

It must not be used for high-level security requirements (governmental, military, international) and probably even mid-level requirements (corporate, police). Little people using it as a proxy are fine.

Don’t do anything illegal with it if you’re within three degrees of a Bad Guy. So.. don’t use it for anything illegal. Remember that PRISM records everything, so that, once flagged, you can be found retroactively guilty (even by association) for past internet usage.

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Zsh

2009-04-21

commandline software, freeware, Linux software, live, loved, macOS 10.15 (Catalina) software, macOS 13 (Ventura) software, macOS software, open-source software, programming languages, reviews, shell scripting, shell scripting languages, shells, software, Windows software, zsh

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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MOST

2009-03-24

commandline software, file utilities, freeware, glances, Linux software, open-source software, pagers, software, todo, utilities, Windows software

Software > Linux tools >

http://www.jedsoft.org/most/

A powerful paging program for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, and win32 systems. Unlike other well-known paging programs most supports multiple windows and can scroll left and right. Why settle for less?

DiskSearch

2009-03-17

abandoned, freeware, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, software, utilities, Windows software

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.

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cdcat

2009-03-17

dead, disliked, freeware, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, OS/2 software, Qt software, reviews, software, utilities, Windows software

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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Python

2009-02-03

commandline software, dead, freeware, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, programming languages, projects, software, Windows 10 software, Windows software

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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