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Typesetting Tools

SILE – typesetting system

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

SILE is a typesetting system. Its job is to produce beautiful printed documents.

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Typesetting Tools

Lout – document formatting system

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Lout is a document formatting system. The system reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX.

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Typesetting Tools

groff – typesetting system that reads plain text input files

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

groff (GNU roff) is a typesetting system that reads plain text input files that include formatting commands.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: uptime

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to uptime, a utility which tells you how long the system has been running.

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Documentation

tuptime – report historical and statistical real time of the system

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tuptime is a utility that reports historical and statistical real time of the system, keeping it between restarts.

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downtimed – system downtime monitoring and reporting tool

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

downtimed is a program for monitoring operating system downtime, uptime, shutdowns and crashes and for keeping record of such events.

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lastwake – wake/suspend time system journal analyzer

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lastwake parses the systemd journal to find out: time of last cold boot, and start/end times of each sleep/resume cycle and their duration.

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Document Management Systems

Docspell – Document Management System

March 20, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Docspell is a personal document organizer targeted for home use, i.e. families, households and also for smaller groups/companies.

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Coding

Rust – systems programming language

November 21, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Rust is an open source, curly-brace, block-structured expression, general purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled language.

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Graphics

Argyll – color management system

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Argyll is an ICC compatible color management system. It supports accurate ICC profile creation for scanners, CMYK printers, and more.

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Email

getmail – mail retrieval system

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

getmail is a mail retriever designed to allow you to get your mail from one or more mail accounts on various mail servers to your local machine.

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Pianist

Beets – media library management system

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Beets is a media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks.

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Hard disk image

fuseiso – FUSE module to mount ISO filesystem images

November 13, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

fuseiso is a FUSE module to mount ISO filesystem images. It implements a fully functional filesystem in a userspace program.

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Best Free and Open Source Interactive Fiction Tools

FrobTADS – Authoring System to Create Your Own Interactive Fiction

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

FrobTADS is a full version of TADS for Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X.

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Best Free and Open Source Interactive Fiction Tools

Inform – Design System for Interactive Fiction

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It’s a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed.

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Web Delivery

Responsive Aeon Grid System – elegant & minimalist CSS grid

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Responsive Aeon Grid System is a simple and minimalist alternative to start with Responsive Design and fluid Grids for Web Designers.

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File Managers

cdls – Curses based file manager for system managers

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

cdls is a curses-based file manager for quickly browsing directories and files. The screen can be dynamically adjusted to include all information.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Snes9x – freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Snes9x is a portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator.

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Video-Emulators

higan – Nintendo multi-system emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

higan emulates a number of classic video-game consoles of the 1980s and 1990s, allowing you to play classic games on a modern general-purpose computer.

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Video-Emulators

Stella – Multi-platform Atari 2600 Video Computer System

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Stella allows you to enjoy all of your favorite Atari 2600 games once again by emulating the 2600’s hardware with software.

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