Blosxom (pronounced “Blossom”) is a lightweight yet feature-packed weblog application designed from the ground up with simplicity, usability, and interoperability in mind. Fundamental is its reliance upon the file system, folders and files as its content database. Blosxom’s weblog entries
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Triki-Wiki – flat-file Wiki software
Triki Wiki (Triki) is a lightweight, flat-file Wiki system written in PHP (and Xhtml). It is small, very easy to install and highly portable. Its main strength is the optional (but preferred) FCK WYSIWYG Editor, which is a boon for
Read moreZwiki – powered many Zope and non-Zope-related wikis
Zwiki is a powerful, innovative, wiki engine written in Python and based on the Zope web application server. Zwiki keeps pages in a hierarchy, like an outliner, which helps to organize large amounts of content. Zwiki’s user interface comes in
Read moreNucleus CMS – blog management software
Nucleus CMS is an open-source blog management software package written in PHP, with a MySQL backend. It offers a system that is easy to install, but still offers maximum flexibility. It is used to manage frequently-updated Web content. With a
Read moreFrogCMS – simplifies content management
Frog CMS is an open source content management system. It was originally known as phpRadiant. Frog CMS simplifies content management by offering an elegant user interface, flexible templating per page, simple user management and permissions, as well as the tools
Read moremiaCMS – fork of the Mambo CMS
MiaCMS is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use open source content management system. It lets you build powerful and standards-compliant Web sites in a matter of minutes. It features simple installation, graphical content editors (with automatic code generation), RSS
Read moreMambo – CMS software
Mambo (formerly named Mambo Open Source or MOS) is a free, open source content management system for creating and managing websites through a simple web interface. This software can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.
Read moreZmanda – backup software
Zmanda Recovery Manager is a Perl-based utility used to automate backup and recovery of MySQL databases. Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL is used to do backup and recovery of live MySQL databases which can be local or remote. ZRM
Read moreTimeVault – simple front-end for making snapshots of a set of directories
TimeVault monitors files for changes and takes snapshots after some user-specified delay. It is a simple front-end for making snapshots of a set of directories. Snapshots are a copy of a directory structure or file at a certain point in
Read moreFlyBack – backup software
FlyBack is software for system backup and restore, which offers similar functionality to the Mac OS X Leopard’s Time Machine. Linux has almost all of the required technology already built in to recreate it. FlyBack is a snapshot-based backup tool
Read moreAreca Backup – personal backup solution
Areca Backup is a file backup software developed in Java. It includes a transaction mechanism which guarantees the integrity of a backup. The software allows users to select files or directories to backup, filter, encrypt and compress their content, and
Read moreROX-Filer – user friendly desktop software
ROX-Filer is a simple and easy to use graphical file manager for X11 based on the GTK2 library. It uses a uniform drag-and-drop approach for every operation. It is also the core component of the ROX Desktop Environment. The software
Read moreCompiz Fusion **AWOL**
Compiz Fusion was the result of a merge between the well-known Beryl composite window manager and Compiz Extras, a community set of improvements to the Compiz composite window manager. Compiz Fusion is depreciated. Return to Window Managers Home Page
Read moreMetacity – compositing window manager
Metacity is a compositing window manager used by default in the GNOME desktop environment. It is the default window manager for many distributions including Ubuntu. It is a small window manager, using GTK+2 to do everything. Metacity focuses on simplicity
Read moreIon – tiling tabbed X11 window manager
Ion is a tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard users in mind. Ion divides the screen into tiles and places windows in these tiles by default. Each tile has a set of tabs for the windows within it. It
Read moreAfterstep – window manager
AfterStep is a window manager based on FVWM which attempts to emulate the NEXTSTEP look and feel, while retaining the configurability of its predecessor. This window manager makes extensive use of the color palette. If you have only an 8-bit
Read moreEtoile – desktop environment
Étoilé intends to be an innovative GNUstep based desktop environment built from the ground up on highly modular and light components with project and document orientation in mind. It is created with project and document orientation in mind, in order
Read moreFVWM-Crystal – desktop environment
FVWM-Crystal aims to create an easy to use, powerful desktop environment. Unlike many other lightweight environments, it also features plenty of eye-candy. FVWM-Crystal boils down to a set of FVWM configuration files, some Python and shell scripts, a set of
Read moreEquinox Desktop Environment – small and fast desktop environment
EDE is a compact and very portable desktop environment designed to be very lightweight in memory and resource usage. It is based on modified FLTK library (called extended FLTK or just eFLTK). EDE features a desktop, a Windows-like panel with
Read moreROXDesktop – fast, user friendly desktop
The ROX Desktop is a desktop environment, a lightweight alternative to GNOME or KDE based on the ROX-Filer file manager. It is inspired by the user interface of RISC OS. The interface revolves around the file manager, or filer, following
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