Linux software

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Software >
Ruby GUI toolkits >

(on Wikipedia)
was freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/fxruby/
was fxruby.org
https://rubydoc.info/gems/fxruby/frames
https://github.com/larskanis/fxruby

FXRuby is a Ruby extension module that provides an interface to the FOX GUI library.

  • FOX (Free Objects for X) is a C++ based class library for building Graphical User Interfaces.

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Software >

(on Wikipedia)
(home page archive)
https://github.com/parasew/instiki
https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/wiki/instiki/show/HomePage

I liked it, but it hated me and had horrible bugs.

I tried Instiki because I wanted to learn to program in Ruby and so I thought I could contribute. However, my creativity was badly maimed by the beta-ness of the project as well as a horrific “rollback” data loss issue. These were issues so horrific that the project should have been halted. Sure, the developer had things to do, but in my mind there was no excuse. I was frustrated enough to delete my entire installation, including some of my original work. Among the things deleted was an article I wrote with a simple resolution to the “Slashdot effect“. Sigh.

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Software >

https://sourceforge.net/projects/konspire/
http://konspire.sourceforge.net/

A peer-to-peer file sharing program which instead lets you subscribe to people to get files in a “sink-discovery” system.

Had a lot of potential, and is significantly better than other systems and programs. Was stillborn.

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Software > Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/browsers.html

The problem with the Mozilla of browsers is that decent functionality isn’t included out of the box. This is what drove me away from Windows and I don’t want to waste my life configuring things anymore.. so I can’t really stand this browser.

  • Mozilla: Firebird, Phoenix or whatever other names.
  • This project is dead – see SeaMonkey.

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Software >
(on Wikipedia)

A ubiquitous file compression program.

  • Also unzip
  • I don’t use the GUI version, I use 7zip for that, or the built-in manager for Windows (various versions)



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https://github.com/koodo-reader/koodo-reader
https://koodo.960960.xyz/en

A hot garbage e-reader program.

It’s all candy and bubblegum like Calibre, making it extremely difficult to navigate and use. I just want to open files and view them. I don’t need a fucking document management system.

2024-01-04 – 1.5.1