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I don’t like this idea at all; it presents one single point of attack to get the knowledge of the filesystem(s). This is also installed by default on so many systems, so I uninstall it and delete its database because that gets left after uninstallation!

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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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GNOME

2009-03-17

disliked, freeware, glances, GUI software, Linux software, open-source software, window managers

Software > Window managers >

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

One of the more popular window managers.

I tried it a long time ago. Tested very briefly. Strongly dislike because of speed issues. Didn’t test for long enough to learn about the style of applications etc. I’ve developed a bias against Gnome in preference for KDE for reasons I can’t articulate. Gnome is kinda pretty, but KDE keeps my attention.

Gnome 2 was forked and continued by a new team as MATE.

Berkeley Automounter

2009-03-17

commandline software, freeware, glances, Linux software, mount, open-source software, software, utilities

Software > mount >

(on Wikipedia)
http://am-utils.org/

Automount utilities including an updated version of Amd Am-utils includes an updated version of Amd, the popular BSD automounter. An automounter is a program which maintains a cache of mounted filesystems. Filesystems are mounted when they are first referenced by the user and unmounted after a certain period of inactivity. Amd supports a variety of filesystems, including NFS, UFS, CD-ROMS and local drives.

You should install am-utils if you need a program for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems.

Incomprehensible documentation.