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TODO – add patch notes

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Software > Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
http://links.twibright.com/

A fast, open source, cross-platform Web browser based on the Links web browser.

Where Lynx is the standard console web browser for most Linux distributions and is complete shit, Links is fucking awesome.

I had used this for some time but abandoned it for a while. I’ll try it again eventually.

  • aka Twibright Labs: Links
  • aka Links2



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Software > Telnet > MUD >

http://xpertmud.sourceforge.net/

Telnet/MUD client.

Alpha. Very visually appealing. Languages: Perl, Python, (Ruby “soon”, though they seem apathetic), possibly JavaScript later.

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(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/
http://www.dosbox.com/

A DOS emulation program.

Absolutely essential for emulating DOS not just within Windows or a traditional Linux environment, but within ARM/Linux as well, for palmtops and phones.

For games I’ve played via it, see /tag/dosbox-games (although the tag is new and not populated well)



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Not to be mistaken for Thunderbirds – (1965 show)

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Linux email clients >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

A multi-OS email client.

POP3, IMAP, SMTP, NNTP, LDAP, SSL/TLS, OpenPGP, S/MIME, filters, multiple identities, bayesian spam filters.

Excellent, but awfully slow.



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Software > Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/browsers.html

The problem with the Mozilla of browsers is that decent functionality isn’t included out of the box. This is what drove me away from Windows and I don’t want to waste my life configuring things anymore.. so I can’t really stand this browser.

  • Mozilla: Firebird, Phoenix or whatever other names.
  • This project is dead – see SeaMonkey.

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Software >
(on Wikipedia)

A ubiquitous file compression program.

  • Also unzip
  • I don’t use the GUI version, I use 7zip for that, or the built-in manager for Windows (various versions)



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https://github.com/koodo-reader/koodo-reader
https://koodo.960960.xyz/en

A hot garbage e-reader program.

It’s all candy and bubblegum like Calibre, making it extremely difficult to navigate and use. I just want to open files and view them. I don’t need a fucking document management system.

2024-01-04 – 1.5.1