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Jovie – conversion of text to audible speech

The Jovie text-to-speech system is a plugin based service that allows any KDE (or non-KDE) application to speak using the D-Bus interface. This software aims to become the standard subsystem for all KDE applications to provide speech output. Jovie uses

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GtkGuitune – tune guitars and other instruments

GtkGuitune is software for tuning guitars and other instruments by using the method of Schmitt-triggering. GtkGuitune is actually an oscilloscope which counts the passes between two trigger levels per time, calculates the frequency and shows the tone on a tone-scale. It

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Wildfly – flexible, lightweight, managed application runtime

Wildfly (was JBoss Application Server) is a J2EE certified platform for developing and deploying enterprise Java applications, Web applications, and Portals. Wildfly provides the full range of J2EE 1.4 features as well as extended enterprise services including clustering, caching, and

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Flickr Photo Downloader – download Flickr images

Flickr Photo Downloader is a small, open source utility written in the Java programming language which lets users download Flickr images from public profiles. To download images from a public profile, you only need to know the Flickr account name,

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Postr – Flickr uploading tool for GNOME

Postr (also known as Flickr Uploader) is a Flickr uploading tool for the GNOME desktop, which aims to be simple to use but exposing enough of the power of Flickr to be useful. Postr has a simple user interface, and

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neercs – like GNU screen but much more

neercs is a replacement for the screen utility with a raft of additional functionality besides being able to detach a session from a terminal. This app is in an early stage of development. Features include: Grabbing a process that you

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tmux – terminal multiplexer software

tmux is a “terminal multiplexer”. This application enables a number of terminals (or windows) to be created, accessed and controlled from a single screen. tmux runs as a server-client system. A server is created automatically when necessary and holds a

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Boot-Up Manager – runlevels configuration

Boot-Up Manager is a Perl-Gtk2 application to handle runlevels configuration of any Debian-based system. With this program the user will easily start and stop boot-up scripts, without the necessity of dealing with complex links and permissions. Features include: Allows easy

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Bootchart – boot process analysis tool

Bootchart is a tool for performance analysis and visualization of the Linux boot process. Resource utilization and process information are collected during the boot process and are later rendered in a PNG, SVG or EPS encoded chart. The boot process

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RabbitVCS – version control software

RabbitVCS is a collection of graphical utilities designed to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems SVN (Subversion) and Git. This software provides multiple clients and extensions designed to give you a uniform experience no matter what

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Terrastore – document store

Terrastore is a modern, open source, document store which provides advanced scalability and elasticity features without sacrificing consistency. It is based on Terracotta, commercial software which adds enterprise functionality to the features offered by Terrastore. Terrastore automatically scales your computations:

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MongoDB – document-oriented data store

MongoDB is a high-performance, open source, schema-free document-oriented data store that is easy to deploy, manage and use. This network accessible software is written in C++. As the database is document-oriented it manages collections of JSON-like documents. Many applications can

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