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(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmanfm/
was https://blog.lxde.org/category/pcmanfm/

For some reason, this is still included by default in many distributions.

It’s an awful, awful program. Its UI is such shit that I’ve still got habits to double-check where my cursor actually is before interacting. Fuck you, PCManFM. Fuck. You.

  • A component of LXDE.
  • (almost) Entirely obsoleted by SpaceFM.

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Software (Programming) >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/bamboo/boo
boo-lang.org

2019-11-22 – The main website is dead and the project hasn’t been modified in 6 years

Inspired by Python and Ruby. Compiles into a Common Intermediate Language and then into an executable that can be run by mono.

I tinkered with it and didn’t like it.

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Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/ [ 1 ] was https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/ [ 2 ] was ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/

Create a hex dump of a file.

Part of util-linux.

See also:

  • od — Same thing.

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