Linux software

xzgv

2011-12-22

disliked, freeware, glances, GTK+ software, GUI software, image viewers, Linux software, media software, open-source software, software

Software >

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xzgv/

A simple image viewer, but it doesn’t have the basic functionality I want. GPicView blows it away.

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PulseAudio

2011-11-18

audio software, commandline software, dead, disliked, evil, freeware, glances, hated, Linux software, open-source software, software

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/

My policy in general is to have as few moving parts as possible. The few inter-dependant projects, the simpler the software, the more straightforward the setup is the easier everything becomes.

PulseAudio is a steaming pile of shit which I’ve never had working correctly. Even finding basic documentation on how to use it isn’t out there.

Brought to you by the author of systemd, so you know it’s Evil.

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gnome-run-dialog

2011-11-17

abandoned, application launchers, dead, freeware, glances, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, utilities

Software > run >

was http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/grd

Meant to be an improvement over the default GNOME run dialog, this still had glaring omissions when I tried it.

2022-07-12 – It’s gone from SourceForge.
As of 2016-12-16 not updated since 2009-11-07 (1.7.0)

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Christine

2011-10-27

audio playing software, audio software, dead, freeware, glances, GUI software, liked, Linux software, media software, open-source software, software

https://web.archive.org/web/20190126010616/http://www.christine-project.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/20090530072502/http://www.christine-project.org:80/html/index.php

A small and very fast Media Player, it suports the widespread media files that Gstreamer do support. Christine allows you to search trough your media files and play them quickly. You can create playlists to keep your files organized, use a queue and organize radio stations.

Complete garbage when I tried it

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Started in Ruby, with a conversion attempted in Mythryl.

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Software > VoIP, Instant messagers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.ventrilo.com/

aka Vent
I’ve since switched to Mumble.
Mangler is an open source vent client for Linux.

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ZFS

2011-07-23

abandoned, commandline software, disliked, file systems, freeware, FUSE, glances, liked, Linux software, open-source software, software

This page is about ZFS-fuse, the ZFS attempt for Linux

(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20121229103643/http://zfs-fuse.net/

ZFS is a filesystem.

I have abandoned this filesystem because it is about as closed as it can get without being officially closed. It’s hampered by awkward licensing and patents making it intentionally incompatible with the GPL.

Even if it was made to work perfectly, running under FUSE is sub-optimal.

It also seems horrifyingly complex to use. Seriously.

Its checksumming is important for The Chain of Trust.

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Chiron FS

2011-07-10

abandoned, dead, freeware, FUSE, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software, storage, utilities

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.furquim.org/chironfs/

A userland-level raid type solution. This might have replaced my use of rsync, which can only be good.

2011-07-17 – The last update was June 2008. The fourm was never particularly active, and was last used at the end of 2009.
2016-12-15 – still inactive.

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