Linux software

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Software > Virtualization >

(on Wikipedia)
https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git
https://xenproject.org/ [ 1 ] was http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/

A virtual machine program.

It installs fine, but i have no clue how to run it.

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Software >

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

A BitTorrent client.

I used to love it, but it gave up Gnutella functionality so it’s useless. I wonder if old versions are still good..

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Software > dialog >

http://xdialog.free.fr/ [ 1 ] was http://xdialog.dyns.net

Simple GUI version of dialog, made for having few dependencies.

Seems pretty neat, but I couldn’t replicate a simple application launcher. I ended up just using dialog in a terminal window.

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Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.burtonini.com/blog/tag/devilspie.html

Devil’s Pie is for window matching & acting just like the KDE window actions, except heinously difficult to configure.

You probably want to try wmctrl instead.

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Software > Terminals >

(on Wikipedia)
http://rxvt.sourceforge.net/ [ 1 ] redirects to http://rxvt.sourceforge.net/ [ 2 ] was rxvt.org

A nice light terminal emulator.

rxvt is a colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm replacement for users who do not require features such as Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability. As a result, rxvt uses much less swap space.

  • our extended virtual terminal

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Footnotes

^ 1 redirects to http://rxvt.sourceforge.net/
^ 2 was rxvt.org

Software > Application launchers >

(Somewhere around www.chrislansdown.com) [ 1 ] was https://web.archive.org/web/20060508195350/https://highsorcery.com/linux/xrun/

A simple application launcher.

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