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Software > MUD >

was rubyforge.org/projects/vwmclient
was vwmclient.rubyforge.org

A cross-platform native Ruby language GTK 2.x MU* (Telnet) client written by Mario Steele. It has been released under the LGPL license.

While not yet in a stable form, its goals will be to create a client:server model which allows for client-side processing of scriptlets.

  • Abandoned. It seems to have just vanished.
  • Virtual World MU* Client



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Software > File managers >

http://rigaux.org/sfm.html [ 1 ] also http://prigaux.chez.com/sfm.html [ 2 ] was people.mandriva.com/%7Eprigaux/sfm.html [ 3 ] was www.chez.com/prigaux/sfm.html

This program is no longer maintained, but it’s the only worthy (slim and sensible) X file manager I could find.

thunar might be a challenger, except that sfm lets me very quickly use an alternate app.

  • Note that there are a couple of file managers named “SFM” or “Simple File Manager”.



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Footnotes

^ 1 also http://prigaux.chez.com/sfm.html
^ 2 was people.mandriva.com/%7Eprigaux/sfm.html
^ 3 was www.chez.com/prigaux/sfm.html

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Security > Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/vgough/encfs
was https://www.arg0.net/encfs

EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library module to provide the filesystem interface.

2016-12-28 – I have no memory of using this. Boy will it be awkward if I come across stuff encrypted with it.

Abandoned



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Software > Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
was dillo.org

A lightweight web browser.

I thought it had hope but needed significant work.

  • 2022-07-12 – Apparently abandoned

    • The website is down
    • the source code archive as of 202201280 shows the last activity at 2021-02-09. It was a small change and the update previous to that was 2018-10-05.
    • The mailing list archive doesn’t tell me enough because it’s an old snapshot.



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Software > Telnet > MUD >

https://github.com/nerevar/jmc
https://nerevar.github.io/jmc/ [ 1 ] was www.geocities.com/jmc_client/ then sourceforge.net/projects/jmc/

Telnet/MUD client with tintin++ scripting functionality.

Doesn’t appear to do IRC.

  • Jaba Mud Client

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^ 1 was www.geocities.com/jmc_client/ then sourceforge.net/projects/jmc/