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Parted Magic - Live CD Linux distribution (CD/USB/PXE) for disk work, including many tools (Partimage, TestDisk, Truecrypt, Clonezilla, G4L, SuperGrubDisk, ddrescue, etc¿), and supports many file systems (btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs.) |
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Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) - Live CD Linux distribution based on Mandriva Linux, aimed specifically at offline operations for Windows and Linux systems such as rescue, repair, password resets and disk cloning. |
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BackTrack - Live CD Linux distribution based on Slackware, aimed specifically at wireless penetration testing. |
| Vrtualization | |
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bochs - free vmware replacement. |
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coLinux - Cooperative Linux runs on Linux OS in parallel on a Windows machine. |
| Web Browsers | |
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Firefox: The Mozilla team hatched "Mozilla, Jr."
The name changed from Phoenix -> Firebird -> Firefox due to trademark issues,
and Debian had to rename it iceweasel due to more trademark issues,
and it looks like it has been renamed again to icecat due to artwork and plugin licences. Inspite of all the unnesesary legal distractions, the browser has not been killed or killed anyone. Favorite Extentions: User Agent Switcher, Flashblock, Firebug, Firecookie, OpenVRML SessionSaver now built-in with: Edit->Preferences->Main->When Firefox starts:->Show my windows and tabs from last time Favorite Themes: CrystalFox Qute |
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Mozbraille extention for Firefox. This is greate for people who are blind or slow readers. Wish there was an open-source recordings for the blind project" |
| Opera: IE is slick but it crashes like a drunk driver, is as dangerous as a bad girl friend, and is guilty of OS descrimination. Netscape is very cool, but try checking your web page development when your off line, and it hangs. Opera is small, simple, and has just enough window dressing, though the icons could be smaller out of the box. |
| Email Clients (Mail Transfer Agents) | |
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Squirrelmail: Web mail goes nuts. This is a pretty goood web interface I have run for many years. |
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Evolution: Wonderful Email user agent. Connects with Exchange for free, as well as IMAP, POP, SIMAP, SPOP, SMTP.
Was a product of Ximian, now Novel. Offers virutal folders for special filtering, and a nice GUI. When you need help with crashes, do 3 things: 1. Get traces with debugging symbols, 2. get E2K_DEBUG traces, 3. Report bugs |
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Thunderbird: Email user agent. Lite, nice, IMAP, POP, SIMAP, SPOP, SMTP |
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ClawsMail: Email user agent. Lite, nice, IMAP, POP, SIMAP, SPOP, SMTP, RSS (evolved from Sylpheed). |
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Sylpheed: Email user agent. Lite, nice, IMAP, POP, SIMAP, SPOP, SMTP |
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ALPINE: Email user agent (Based on Pine) released Dec. 2007. Lite, nice, IMAP, POP, SIMAP, SPOP, SMTP |
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PINE: Email user agent. Lite, nice, IMAP, POP, SIMAP, SPOP, SMTP |
| Instant Messengers | |
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Pidgin: The new Gaim in town. It is AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger. |
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Kopete in KDE : It is AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus SameTime, and more. I found a gaim rpm for SuSE. |
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LICQ: This is much better than icq, It has a "utilities," alternate skins, icons, and sounds and it fully supports xwindidows display export (over ssh). If you are running SuSE, get licq here. |
| CD/DVD Burning Tools | |
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k9copy: Best dvd-backup interface I've seen for Linux. |
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k3b: Best cd-burner interface I've seen for Linux. |
| RSS Tools | |
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Akregator: Cool rss reader for kde. This is my main rss reader" |
| Raggle | raggle: Cool console based rss reader, written in Ruby. And some good news links: Latest Linux Kernel Version KernelTrap LWN.net freshmeat.net Slashdot News Laughing Squid A MadCarter's Rag |
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rssowl: Cool rss reader, for linux, mac, and windows. Uses Mozilla libs for embeded browser." |
| Text Editor Tools | |
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Nedit: If you are shopping for a good, small, syntax hilighinging text editor, this is for you. Who needs the bulk or cost of slickedit. |
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vim: Hay, it's vim. Does a lot if you can learn. |
| Office Tools: Word processing, printing, spreadsheet, presentations, etc. | |
| Enscrypt | Enscript: for pretty command line printing. converts text files to PostScript or to other output languages |
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OpenOffice: Free replacement for Microsoft Office, A $400.00 value for free without the bugs from Microsoft! Even exports pdf's, script macros in Ruby, can access real databases. One person's opinion |
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Need macros for making cool OpenOffice Impress presentations? |
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Need macros for making cool OpenOffice Impress presentations? |
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Need templates for making cool OpenOffice Impress presentations? |
| JOOConverter | JOOConverter: Command line conversion of documents using openoffice (can convert all .doc to .pdf, or .txt)? |
| Audio Tools: | |
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FFmpeg: a complete, command line, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. |
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JACK Audio Connection Kit (JACK)
System for real-time, low latency audio (and MIDI), patching of audio sources (software or hardware) to desitnations (software or hardware). |
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JAMin is the JACK Audio Connection Kit (JACK) Audio Mastering interface
30 band graphic EQ, 1023 band hand drawn EQ with parametric controls, Spectrum analyser, 3 band peak compressor, Lookahead brickwall limiter, Multiband stereo processing, Presets and scenes, Loudness maximiser |
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Rakarrack: Rakarrack is a richly featured multi-effects processor emulating a guitar effects pedalboard.
Includes many standard effects. Most of engine built from modules in synthesizer ZynAddSubFX. Processes signals in stereo. Does not apply internal band-limiting filtering. Rakarrack is designed for Linux distributions with Jack Audio Connection Kit. |
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Opendjmix: OpenSource mixing solution
OpenDjMix is a virtual DJ Software which split in two parts: a C++ modular API which manage a virtual mixing bus and a Qt front-end which provide four audio tracks mixing. |
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BRP_PACU: smaart replacement
A dual channel FFT based Acoustic Analysis Tool to help engineers configure professional sound systems in live. One feature is the ability to take several transfer function sample plots, average them, and flip the average to aid in final equalization. |
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BaudLine: A time-frequency browser designed for scientific visualization of the spectral domain. Signal analysis is performed by Fourier, correlation, and raster transforms that create colorful spectrograms with vibrant detail. Useful for hunting down and studying elusive signal characteristics. |
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Audacity: sound editor
Record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. |
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vlc: cross-platform media player, streamer, transcoding, client and server. |
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MPD: Music Player Daemon - allows remote access for playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Mod, and wave files) and managing playlists. |
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Pulseaudio: sound server for POSIX and Win32 systems. Tested on tested on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. |
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AquaLung: Advanced music player, started on GNU/Linux, now also FreeBSD,OpenBSD,OsX, and Windows. Plays CD's,files,streams. Pluggible format support (uncompressd WAV, AIFF, AU, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, MPEG VBR & UBR, MOD, S3M, XM, IT, etc, WavPack, AC3, AAC, WMA. LADSPA plugin support (http://tap-plugins.sourceforge.net/) (on gentoo install media-plugins/tap-plugins) adds single and tripple band parametric eq, as well filters for allpass/highpass/lowpass and others. |
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Qsynth: offers some parametric adjustment to audio. |
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Amuc: Ampsterdam Music Composer: Linux application for composing and playing music |
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LMMS: Linux MultiMedia Studio. |
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Audacious: I replaced xmms with this program, as Gentoo offers it in a package. Based on GTK2, and seems just as feature ritch as xmms was. |
| XMMS: Everyone has the mp3's, so this is winamp-like, since winamp didn't make a unix version.. Skin: Rebelamp: X-Wing 1.1 Skin: Trooper 5.0 Skin: Star Wars attack of the clones retro style 5.0 |
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di.fm
shoutcast kzsu.stanford.edu |
Gota Have Music |
| Video and Graphic Tools: | |
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GIMP: GNU Image Manipulation Program. Think of it as Free Photoshop with more & less. |
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Inkscape: An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. |
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Blender: free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems. |
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RawTherapee: RAW converter and digital photo processing. |
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ImageMagic: Great suite of command line tools for image manipulation. |
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Gallery: A really nice web image gallery. |
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RealPalayer: I like hering music and vidio on the net, so this is the best RealPlayer I've see for linux |
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mplayer: great media player. I use this as my default media player. |
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Avidemux: Nice gui interface for mencoder, for converting Matroska (mkv) files to avi. |
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A browser plugin that uses mplayer to play digital media from websites.
click for mplayer tweeks |
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Mistif Model 3D: OpenGL-based 3D model editor, GPL |
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ac3d: Make 3d desings, and animation... |
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moonlight3d: This 3d program also rocks. Take the time to do the tutorials. |
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Cinelerra: most advanced non-linear video editor and compositor for Linux. |
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Cinepaint: 8 deep paint image retouching tool that supports higher color fidelity than ordinary painting tools (8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit color channels) |
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jahshaka: A free, Open Source realtime 2D animation interface, open source. |
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LiVES: A free, Open Source video editor *and* a VJ tool. |
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AviDemux: A free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. |
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OpenMovieEditor: A free and open source video editing program, designed for basic movie making capabilities. |
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kdenlive: A free and open source non-liniear video editing program. supporting DV, HDV and AVCHD(not complete yet) editing. |
| lvempeg | lvempeg: Linux Video Editor. frame and GOP accurate editing of MPEG1/2 video files. |
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Linux based video camera security solution. |
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J-Pilot: Best palm pilot interface I've seen for Linux. Backup can backup everything on the palm pilot, edit/read the NotePad, which I don't see on other interfaces. Palm faled to release a cool Linux interface (typical corporation). |
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Kgpg (for KDE) and Seahorse (for Gnome) are GPG front ends. |
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Using gpg to implement pgp security can be easier for non-technical peope with these programs |
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eclipse: IBM's IDE gift to the world. I use it with subverison plugin Subclipse and Subversive |
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kdiff3: Great graphic diff tool for kde. |
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xxdiff-subversion - I had a hell of a time getting xxdiff to work properly with subversion, and I need a graphic diff tool. |
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KDevelop: Kde development application for php and other gui langages |
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Quanta: Qt development application for php and other gui langages |
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Kate: Another development application for php and other gui langages |
| XWC | X WINCOMMANDER: Very Explorer looking file manager |
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LinNeighborhood: Until the corts have some effect on the industry, you'll need to interact with windows systems This is the best, slick tool for mounting, and viewing network shares. |
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wxftp: Alexander Yukhimets did a bang-up job on this utility. It looks good, and works good, but it still doesn't use ssh... but it's functional." |
| X2X |
X2X: an older program to share mouse & keyboard between monitors hooked to different computers. Framebuffering. Very handy!!!
On receiving system: xhost+
On keybard system &/devnull; x2x -to receiving_ip:0 -west -resurface >& /dev/null
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Synergy: A newer program to share one mouse & keyboard of one computer, with multiple other computers, supporting different opperating systems (unix,linux,osx,windows).
Opens a port on the client and one on the server. Does not rely on xhost+, merges clipboard between all systems, synchronizes screen savers. Some of my config files for windows/linux setup |
| okvm | okvm is open source console management and KVM management software, as well as open source KVM hardware. |
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kdirstat: Graphicly look at where all your hard drive is going.
Does it's job, and takes it's time doing it. |
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kde-misc/filelight: Graphicly look at where all your hard drive is going. not there yet, but it will be
./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix` --enable-final --disable-debug && make && su -c "make install"
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JDU: Disk Usage visualizor (written in java), distrubuted as a javaws app. |
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Tora: tk database editor. Supports Oracle and MySQL
Has a browser, query editor, graphs, and stuff I haven't learned. |
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Wireshark: Wireshark was ethereal, is expensive and building your own filters isn't tangable form most people. If youneed to be able to focus on a mac address or a IP, this will do it. |
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Nmap/Nmapfe: How do you know what ports are open on a machien? Or machine on your network is creating loads of trafic, but you don't know why. This will let you see what ports/services are active on the machien. |
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View traffic running around your network in a gui. |
| Fbuilder | Fbuilder: Gui to design your iptables script. If you learn by example, this could be a great training tool for iptables. |
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SQLLedger: Ditch quickbooks. Screw PeachTree. SQLLedger is a free replacement. double entry accounting system, web interface, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or DB2 database, written in perl |
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Webmin: To help Windows admins configure your linux box, this will help. |
| WindowMaker DocApps | My favorite WindowMaker doc apps. |
| shmux | shmux: Run a command on more than one computer via rsh, ssh, sh |
| screen | GNU screen: Multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, and even allows detached terminals |
| kibitz | kibitz: Allows two (or more) people to interact with one shell. Part of Expect. |
| The Dotfile Generator | A TK tool to construct dot files, enabling basic and exotic features, for Tcsh, Bash, Procmail, Elm, Emacs, Fvwm1, Fvwm2, Ipfwadm, and Rtin |
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Open source project/contact management system. |
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Commercial open source customer relationship management system. |
| Cfengine | Cfengine: A autonomous agent and a middle to high level policy language for building expert systems which administrate and configure large computer networks. |
| Captive | Captive: The first full read/write free access to NTFS disk drives from Linux. Microsoft is hardly trying at interoperability, but others are despit them. |
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Anti-Virus for scanning Linux file servers. Linux is not effected, but it will happyly share them. |
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AVG Anti-Virus: for scanning for Linux/Windows hosts, Free Edition (but not GPL) non-commercial, single home computer use only. |
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Qmail: Many large free email systems use this (Hotmail for one). I plugged many other programs into this system to make it cool. Get on the mailing list to learn something about email servers." |
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Cool stuff for qmail: vpopmail, qmailadmin, vqadmin, dnsadmin. Good stuff, good people. |
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qmailrocks.org: Current qmail system system. Has a large following. This has helped me setup many servers. |
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qinstall: Older Qmail setup system. I learned the hard way, and then I found this. Looks like the main project died. I saved the script: http://stilen.com/tools/qinstall_patched.tar.gz You should too, and it will make you a god. |
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PPTP Client is a Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD client for the proprietary Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol, PPTP in a Microsoft VPN. |
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Openswan is a full-featured IPsec VPN solution. Linux. |
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OpenVPN is a full-featured SSL VPN solution. Linux, Windows 2000/XP and higher, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris. A windows gui client exists at: http://www.nilings.se/openvpn/ |
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Make Gnome GTK theme engine uses your KDE QT styles. And you grab it from gnome-look.org. I like: gtk-qt-kcm + gtk-qt-engine. |
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KDE is the gui for people who like gui's. This site will show you what's hot. I like: "Apperance&Themes->Style->Baghira, and Aperance&Themes->WindowDecorations->Baghira preview
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Kde-apps including Komposéfor KDE, F9 to get fullscreen view of all windows on all virutal desktops. |
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freedesktop.org: Linkds to desktop environments and application development frameworks. |
| dd_rescue | dd_rescue: Like dd, but does not halt on disk errors, so one can recover from a hard drive with major bad blocks. |
| bwm-ng | Bandwidth Monitor NG (Next Generation): To monitor network traffic. |
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coreboot: Formerly LinuxBIOS... is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today's computers. |
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perfkit: bundles many software profiling and debug tools into one package |
| Okular: better pdf viewer (for kde) | |
| OnBoard: soft keyboard | |
| cellwriter: handwriting character recognition program. | |
| ink2text: This system provides printed and cursive handwriting recognition service as a shared library on GNU/Linux/Unix systems. | |