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Software > Window managers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/bradleythughes/blackbox/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/blackboxwm/

coming eventually

  • 2019-11-16 — While the original project was abandoned long ago, I see that it was forked.

    • I don’t really care though, as Openbox is working fine.
  • Obsolete – see versus Blackbox.



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(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/
http://www.dosbox.com/

A DOS emulation program.

Absolutely essential for emulating DOS not just within Windows or a traditional Linux environment, but within ARM/Linux as well, for palmtops and phones.

For games I’ve played via it, see /tag/dosbox-games (although the tag is new and not populated well)



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Not to be mistaken for Thunderbirds – (1965 show)

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Linux email clients >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

A multi-OS email client.

POP3, IMAP, SMTP, NNTP, LDAP, SSL/TLS, OpenPGP, S/MIME, filters, multiple identities, bayesian spam filters.

Excellent, but awfully slow.



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Software >

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gift/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gift/

A P2P daemon, which requires a network protocol such as openFT or gnutella. Any number of frontends are also recommended.

So far, giFT has proved to do what it is made for. Most problems will appear to me to be the fault of the frontend, but there may well need to be certain features inserted into either the openFT protocol, the giFT daemon or the frontend.. it’s difficult to say.

  • The software hasn’t had an update since 07 May 2005!

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