Persepolis Download Manager is a handy open source download manager written in Python and PyQt. It’s a graphical frontend for aria2 aiming to make downloads both easier and faster.
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Category: Internet
Aria2 WebUI: Clean Web Frontend for aria2
Aria2 WebUI is an open source web frontend for aria2. The software bills itself as the finest interface to interact with aria2. That’s a lofty goal considering the competition from the likes of uGet Download Manager (which offers an aria2 plugin).
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Newsboat: A Snazzy Text-Based RSS Feed Reader
Newsboat is a sleek, open source RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console. It’s a fork of Newsbeuter. RSS and Atom are a number of widely-used XML formats to transmit, publish and syndicate articles, typically news or blog articles.
Newsboat is designed to be used on text terminals on Unix or Unix-like systems. It’s entirely controlled by the keyboard.
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Pick of the Bunch: Console Internet Applications
A console application is computer software which is able to be used via a text-only computer interface, the command line interface, or a text-based interface included within a graphical user interface operating system, such as a terminal emulator (such as GNOME Terminal or the aforementioned Terminator). Whereas a graphical user interface application generally involves using the mouse and keyboard (or touch control), with a console application the primary (and often only) input method is the keyboard.
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NewsBlur – personal news reader
NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world.
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The Old Reader – RSS reader
The Old Reader allows users to browse their daily dose of content with that very special bit shared by friends, with notes and comments.
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InoReader – RSS/Atom Reader
InoReader is a light and fast RSS/Atom Reader inspired by the now defunct Google Reader.
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Feedspot – social feed reader
Feedspot is a social feed reader. It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources based on topic or websites.
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OpenStack – cloud computing project
OpenStack is a free and open source cloud computing project to provide an infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
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Top 5 Lightweight Web Servers
There is a good range of lightweight web servers released under an open source license. To provide an insight in the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 high quality open source lightweight web servers. Hopefully there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to run a web server.
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