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Google > Chrome >
Software > Web browsers, SVG viewers >

(on Wikipedia)
offline installers
https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge?ep=0&form=MA13T3&es=176&ch=1

Yet another Chrome derivative, but Microsoft took it seriously and made improvements.



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This is regarding “version one” You probably want Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.

Windows 10 logo Linux logo - 'Tux'

Software >
Windows, Linux >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about

A way to run Linux commandline software from a specialized console, similar to how a command prompt runs DOS or PowerShell.

It works well, but it’s imperfect.

  • aka wsl
  • Sometimes mis-named Bash on Ubuntu on Windows or Bash on Windows

See also:



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Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/p/exiftool/code/ci/master/tree/
https://exiftool.org/

For reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio, video, and PDF metadata.

  • 2018-05-02 – 9.74-1 on Devuan-1.0.0-jessie-i386-DVD

    • \apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl
  • 2017-05-31 – 9.74-1 on Devuan 1.0.0-beta

    • \apt-get install exiftool
  • 2009-03-25 – (version not recorded) on PCLinuxOS (version not recorded)

    • \apt-get install perl-Image-ExifTool
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Software > Oldschool music players >

https://www.bannister.org/software/ao.htm

An oldschool music player.

Has potential, but is missing critical features and its development appears to have ceased. Only good for playing ASMA (Atar) .mus, .str, and .wds files.



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Software >

(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: Ghostscript
https://ghostscript.com/

A suite of software for dealing with PDFs.

It’s a requirement for other software, and I only care about actually using it for repairing PDFs.



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