There are a number of different ways of mounting an ISO image under Linux. The venerable mount command offers an easy solution. But if you need tools that offer more functionality for working with disk images, try some of the following excellent open source tools.
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Online Grades is a popular open source project which allows K-12+ student grades to be posted onto a dynamic web site. The software accepts grade export information from popular gradebook software programs including Easy Grade Pro, Gradekeeper, Misty City’s Grade
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ownCloud Documents is an ownCloud app to work with office documents alone and/or collaboratively. It allows up to 5 individuals to collaborate editing .odt and .doc files in a web browser. ownCloud is a self-hosted file sync and share server.
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Hackpad is an open source web-based realtime wiki, based on the open source EtherPad collaborative document editor. Hackpad allows users to share your docs realtime and it uses color coding to show which authors have contributed to which content. It
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Write Space is an installable web application for Google Chrome / Chromium and derived web browsers. It is a minimalist, full-screen text-editor that aims to be simple and distraction-free. Write Space is customizable with options accessible through Tools / Extensions
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Calmly Writer is billed as the ultimate distraction-free writing tool. It has been designed to help you focus on writing. As you start typing, all the distracting options disappear from the interface. Calmly Writer also includes a “focus mode” option,
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Games created in Stencyl can be exported to the web via Adobe Flash Player, and to personal computers as executable game.
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The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a popular graphical user interface to debuggers such as GDB, DBX, XDB, JDB and others. The purpose of a debugger such as DDD is to allow you to see what is going on “inside”
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GitHub is currently the world’s largest, and most popular code hosting site. It is web-based and uses Git, an open-source version control system that was started by Linus Torvalds, the principal force behind the Linux kernel. GitHub provides distributed revision
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Bitbucket is a Git and Mercurial based source code management and collaboration solution in the cloud. The software is written in Python using the Django web framework. Bitbucket provides Git and Mercurial code management for professional teams. Their main market
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SourceForge is a long established web-based service that offers source code repository, downloads mirrors, bug tracker and other features. It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage free and open-source software development. SourceForge has been
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Kube is a minimal, responsive, advanced web framework for professional developers and designers. Spend less time on mundane, repetitive tasks.
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GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer that runs several separate “screens” on a single physical character-based terminal. Screen prevents a session from “timing out” or disconnecting SSH connections or local terminal emulators. Each virtual terminal emulates a DEC VT100 plus
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Terminal multiplexers like GNU Screen and tmux are indispensable for running remote jobs, but they don’t always play nicely with X11 forwarding (i.e. ssh -X or ssh -Y). This can result in remotely-launched GUI programs failing to display and similar difficulties.
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cool-old-term is an open source terminal emulator that is in a very early stage of development. It tries to mimic the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. The developer has not forgotten to include some eye-candy. The
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Final Term is billed as a new breed of terminal emulator. Final Term is an open source terminal emulator written solely in Vala, an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code. Final Term’s source code is
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A terminal emulator is computer software which emulates a dumb video terminal within some other display architecture. A terminal emulator allows the user to access a console and all its applications such as command line interfaces (CLI) and text user
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We all face information overload. Whether you conduct business online, read for your job, or just read for pleasure, the internet is a vast source of information. Retaining that information on a long-term basis can be difficult. However, it is essential to recall certain items of information immediately. Passwords are one such example.
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GnomeBaker is a free CD/DVD authoring application for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. GnomeBaker features an intuitive interface. It is part of the GNOME desktop environment. Features include: Create data CDs. Blank rewritable disks. Burn DVDs. Burn data cds
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Digital streams almost totally command my music listening these days. Over the years I have amassed a large collection of CDs at considerable expense; most of them now sit neglected gathering dust. Almost all music streaming services fall short of the audio quality of CDs, but their popularity has more to do with sheer convenience than high-fidelity sound reproduction.
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