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KNIME – Konstanz Information Miner

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

KNIME is a coherent and comprehensive open source visual platform for data integration, processing, analysis, reporting and exploration.

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RapidMiner – data science platform

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

RapidMiner (formerly known as YALE) is a flexible Java environment for knowledge discovery in databases, machine learning, and data mining.

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BIRT Project – technology platform used to create data visualizations and reports

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project is software that provides reporting and business intelligence capabilities.

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Hard disk image

KDE Partition Manager – utility software

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

KDE Partition Manager is disk partitioning application for the KDE Platform. It can also back up file systems to files and restore backups.

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Hard disk image

Parted – partition manager software

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

GNU Parted is a free and open source program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy disk partitions.

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Archive Manager

PeaZip – winrar/winzip alternative

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

PeaZip is a cross-platform portable file archiver, released under the LGPL. PeaZip supports many different archive and compression formats.

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Archive Manager

File Roller – archive manager for GNOME

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME desktop environment. It performs file compression and archiving functions.

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Engrampa – archive manager utility for MATE Environment

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Engrampa is an archive manager utility for the MATE Environment. It’s a fork of Archive Manager (File Roller).

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Archive Manager

7-Zip – file archiver with a high compression ratio

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. It operates with the 7z archive format.

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Archive Manager

Ark – manage various archive formats

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Ark is an archive utility within the KDE environment. Ark manages various archive formats, including tar, gzip, bzip2, lha, rar and zip.

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Archive Manager

Arqiver – simple Qt5 archive manager

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Arqiver is a simple Qt5 archive manager as a front-end for libarchive (bsdtar), gzip and 7z. Arqiver is free and open source software.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

fzf – command-line fuzzy finder

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder released under an open source license. It’s an interactive Unix filter for command-line.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

autojump – easily navigate directories from the command line

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

autojump is a tool which offers a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It maintains a database of the directories you use the most.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

z.lua – command line tool which helps you navigate faster by learning your habits

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

z.lua is a command line tool which helps you navigate faster by learning your habits. z.lua is free and open source software.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

HSTR – bash and zsh shell history suggest box

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

HSTR is a command line utility that brings improved BASH command completion from the history. HSTR is free and open source software.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

fasd – quick access to files and directories for POSIX shells

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Fasd is a very convenient, open source command-line productivity booster. This utility offers quick access to files and directories.

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fzy – simple, fast fuzzy finder for the terminal

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fzy is a fast, simple fuzzy text selector for the terminal with an advanced scoring algorithm. fzy is free and open source software

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

v – z for vim

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

v is z for vim, a clone of Bill Joy’s vi editor for Unix.v uses viminfo’s list of recently edited files. It’s free and open source software.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

Meld – visual diff and merge tool

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Meld is a graphical diff viewer and merge application for the Gnome desktop. It supports 2 and 3-file diffs, recursive directory diffs.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

Kompare – graphical difference viewer

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Kompare is an open source GUI front-end program that enables differences between source files to be viewed and merged.

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