Simple Backup Solution is a set of backend backup daemon and GNOME Graphical User Interface (GUI) frontends. Free and open source software.
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Simple Backup Solution is a set of backend backup daemon and GNOME Graphical User Interface (GUI) frontends. Free and open source software.
Read moreMainstream Linux distributions typically default to one of two desktop environments, KDE or GNOME. Both of these environments provide users with an intuitive and attractive desktop, as well as offering a large raft of multimedia software, games, administration programs, network
Read moreGNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting text editor. Emacs is a highly advanced text editor, providing users with much more than simple insertion and deletion. This large, complex application does everything from editing text to functioning as a complete
Read moreXEmacs is a highly customizable open source console based and graphical text editor and application development system. XEmacs has full color support on a color-capable character terminal. It is an extension of the popular GNU Emacs, more powerful by handling
Read moreJed is a small, fast (faster startup than bash) and powerful text editor. This package is completely customizable with prepared emulation modes for Emacs, CUA (similar to KDE/Gnome/OpenOffice), Borland-IDE, Brief, and EDT. It is extensible in the S-Lang scripting language
Read moreDiakonos is a customizable, usable console-based text editor. It has the aim of being easier to configure and use than emacs, more powerful than pico and nano, and not as cryptic as vi or ex. Diakonos uses the standard Macintosh/Windows
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Tiger is a security tool that can be use both as a security audit and intrusion detection system.
Read moreSecurity is paramount. Security involves defense in depth. Approaching security one step at a time, with consistency and rigour, you can mitigate threats, and keep intruders at bay. Intruders use a variety of different techniques in an attempt to compromise
Read moreMATLAB is a high-level technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis, and numeric computation. Using MATLAB, you can solve technical computing problems faster than with traditional programming languages, such as C, C++, and Fortran.
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Sylpheed is a simple, lightweight and featureful e-mail client based on the GTK+ GUI toolkit. Sylpheed uses a 3-paned display.
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Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) program that allows the creation of page layouts with text, graphics, photos and other visual elements.
Read moreKexi is an integrated data management application. It can be used for creating databases, inserting data, performing queries, and processing data. Forms can be created to provide a custom interface to your data. All database objects – tables, queries and
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Linux has a raft of open source games. The vast majority of these games are atheistically pleasing. Popular games often have full motion video, vector graphics, 3D graphics, realistic 3D rendering, animation, texturing, a physics engine, and much more. Computer graphics have been advancing at a staggering pace. At the current rate of progress, in the next 10 years it may not be possible to distinguish computer graphics from reality.
Read moreThis article needs updating/deleting. A text editor is software used for editing plain text files. It has many different uses such as modifying system configuration files, writing programming language source code, jotting down thoughts, or even making a grocery list.
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Our Audio Software Group Test identified a number of other quality audio players worthy of attention besides the aforementioned trio. For this feature, we wanted to identify top-notch audio players which receive even less attention in Linux publications.
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Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. The format includes a subset of the PostScript page description programming language, a font-embedding system, and a structural storage system.
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There is an extensive amount of free audio software available on the Linux platform which is both mature and sophisticated. Linux has many audio tools which offer enhanced functionality and integration with internet music services. With most desktop environments having several audio players, together with cross-platform applications, integrated media players, there is a plethora of music players to choose from.
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To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 high quality console based free file managers. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone who wishes to revel in the power of the command-line.
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Chukwa is a data collection system for managing large distributed systems. It is a Hadoop subproject.
Read moreThe purpose of this article is to highlight interesting open source web browsers that are in a very early stage of development. They have very different target audiences.
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