reviews

Ion

2009-04-15

abandoned, dead, freeware, glances, GUI software, hated, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software, window managers

Software >

https://tuomov.iki.fi/software/ ^[ 1 ] was http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/

A keyboard-oriented window manager.

Clunky in places, and some things were non-obvious and needed some reading.

My hands hurt after using it for a little while, because the default hotkeys are Wrong. Heck, the defaults aren’t just “not for me”, the defaults are bad. Because of poor documentation, it’s too much work for me to figure out how to customize it the way I want.

Abandoned – No longer under development, forked into notion

Footnotes[+]

^ 1	was http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/

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Ultimate Boot CD

2009-04-10

commandline software, dead, freeware, GUI software, liked, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software, utilities

Software >

www.ultimatebootcd.com

Consolidates as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD/USB stick.

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SLiM

2009-04-07

abandoned, disliked, freeware, GUI software, Linux, Linux software, login managers, open-source software, reviews, software, software with Git repositories, startup, X

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/iwamatsu/slim
https://www.berlios.de/software/slim/ ^[ 1 ] was slim.berlios.de

It seemed nice, but it wasn’t ready for life when I tested it.

abandoned – as of 2020-06-01 not updated since 2013-10-02

Footnotes[+]

^ 1	was slim.berlios.de

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naim

2009-04-07

abandoned, commandline software, dead, freeware, glances, instant messager clients, IRC clients, liked, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software

Software > Instant messengers >

(on Wikipedia)
naim.n.ml.org (archive)

A client for AI, AOL, ICQ, IRC, and the lily CMC.

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touch

2009-03-26

commandline software, file utilities, freeware, glances, Linux software, Linux tools, live, open-source software, reviews, software, todo, utilities

Software > Linux tools >

(on Wikipedia)

A standard utility.

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BitTornado

2009-03-23

abandoned, BitTorrent clients, BitTorrent software, commandline software, dead, freeware, glances, GUI software, internet software, liked, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software

Software > BitTorrent >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.bittornado.com/

A hacker’s BitTorrent client.

I had used this for a while, but using something like it is a bit frustrating for me. It’s rarely updated and is lacking a number of convenience features.

I was thinking of hacking some solutions to my grievances when I just got frustrated and dumped it to try Deluge again.