less – a terminal pager program

less is a terminal pager. A pager is a program that displays text files. Other pagers commonly in use are more and pg. Pagers are often used in command-line environments. less is similar to more, but has the extended capability

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sleepenh – enhanced sleep program

sleepenh is a program that can be used when there is a need to execute some functions periodically in a shell script. It was not designed to be accurate for a single sleep, but to be accurate in a sequence

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b2 – BBC Micro emulator

b2 is a BBC Micro emulator. The emulator supports several types of BBC B (with different disk interfaces), B+, B+128, Master 128 with MOS 3.20 and Master 128 with MOS 3.50. b2 is free and open source software. Features include:

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LinuxLinks – The Home of Linux

We’ve written an enormous range of articles showcasing the finest free and open source Linux software. There’s coverage on games, graphics, education, multimedia, security, and tons more. And there’s other computer related areas that we also regularly dive into such

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Fail2Ban – intrusion prevention software framework

Fail2Ban is a daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors. The software scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail pwdfail and bans IP addresses that make too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address.  These

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