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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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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