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Smuxi – IRC client

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Smuxi is an Irssi-inspired, flexible, user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users, targeting the GNOME desktop.

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Pidgin – multi-protocol instant messaging client

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Pidgin is an open source graphical Instant Messenger (IM) program that lets you sign on to many chat services.

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KVIrc – Qt-based IRC client

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

KVIrc is a free and open source cross-platform Internet Relay Chat client. The name stands for K Visual Internet Relay Chat client.

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Konversation – IRC client for KDE

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Konversation is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for the KDE (K Desktop Environment). It’s built on Qt and KDE Frameworks 5.

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Polari – IRC client for GNOME desktop environment

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Polari is an open source IRC client for the GNOME desktop environment. It enables users to chat with people around the world.

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dxirc – simple yet capable cross-platform IRC client with Qt interface

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

dxirc is a simple IRC client for various operating systems including Linux. The client uses the Qt and FOX toolkits.

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Communi – simple Qt-based IRC client

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Communi is a free and open source IRC client for desktop environments based on Qt and the Communi IRC framework.

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Configuration Management

Ansible – Automate Software Provisioning, Configuration Management and Application Deployment

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Ansible automates software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. Configure systems, deploy software, and more.

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Salt – Python-based open-source configuration management software and remote execution engine

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt is free and open source software.

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Chef – automated configuration management

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Chef is a systems integration framework and configuration management system. It is written in the Ruby programming language.

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Puppet – automated administrative engine

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Puppet performs administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server configurations).

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CFengine – automate large-scale, complex and mission critical IT infrastructure

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

CFengine is a free and open source suite of programs for integrated autonomic management of either individual or networked computers.

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Juju – single service orchestration tool

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Juju (formerly known as Ubuntu Ensemble) is an open source single service orchestration tool that works on public clouds, private clouds.

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Rudder – Continuous Configuration for Effective Compliance

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Rudder is an audit and configuration management utility to help automate system configuration across large IT infrastructures.

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cdist – configuration management tool using the Bourne Shell for scripting

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

cdist is a usable configuration management system. It adheres to the KISS principle and is used in small up to enterprise grade environments.

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ZooKeeper – distributed coordination

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and more.

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pyinfra – automates infrastructure

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

pyinfra automates infrastructure at massive scale. It can be used for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management.

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Natural Language Processing

MITIE: MIT Information Extraction

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

MITIE: MIT Information Extraction offers state-of-the-art information extraction tools. MITIE is free and open source software.

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Natural Language Processing

text2vec – R package – framework with API for text analysis and natural language processing

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

text2vec is an R package which provides an efficient framework with a concise API for text analysis and natural language processing (NLP).

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Natural Language Processing

TiMBL – Tilburg Memory-Based Learner

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

TiMBL is an open source tool for NLP research, and for many other domains where classification tasks are learned from examples.

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