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Software > Linux tools >

(on Wikipedia)
http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/

vi is a textmode editor. It’s so bad even the author regrets it.

For some fucking reason, Linux distributions almost all include it by default.

The only editor I know of which can handle huge files. So horribly horrible though. =(

  • Ruby-capable, I hear.



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Software >
ncurses + Ruby >

https://github.com/ruby/curses [ 1 ] was http://ncurses-ruby.berlios.de

An ncurses library for Ruby.

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Software > Revision control systems >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.monotone.ca/

monotone is a free distributed version control system. it provides a simple, single-file transactional version store, with fully disconnected operation and an efficient peer-to-peer synchronization protocol. it understands history-sensitive merging, lightweight branches, integrated code review and 3rd party testing. it uses cryptographic version naming and client-side RSA certificates. it has good internationalization support, has no external dependencies, runs on linux, solaris, OSX, windows, and other unixes, and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

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Software > mount > FTP >

(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lufs/ [ 1 ] was http://lufs.sourceforge.net:80/lufs/fs.html

A hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting many “exotic” filesystems (localfs, sshfs, ftpfs, gnutellafs, locasefs, gvfs, cardfs, cefs, etc. ).

Seems unreliable to me.

  • Can mount FTP
  • Allows Gnutella Peer-to-peer mounting to perform searches and use search results as files.
  • Abandoned

    • As of August 2008-08-26, last updated 2003-10-30.
    • Try CurlFtpFS

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Software > Zaurus SL-C1000 > OpenZaurus >

https://web.archive.org/web/20080515230358/http://gpe.handhelds.org/

A windowing environment. An option with OpenZaurus.

Dead, and replaced by Angstrom.

untested, and it’s abandoned anyway

  • X-Windows and GTK+
  • An alternative windowing environment to Opie
  • Based on OpenEmbedded
  • The GPE Palmtop Environment

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