6 of the Best Lean Linux Desktop Environments

Mainstream 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

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Emacs – editor and lots more

GNU 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

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jed – cross-platform text editor

Jed 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

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Diakonos – editor for the masses

Diakonos 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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80 of the Best Linux Security Applications

Security 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

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MATLAB – multi-paradigm numerical computing environment

MATLAB 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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Kexi – visual database applications creator tool

Kexi 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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Ascii Sector

21 Peerless ASCII Games

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.

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21 Excellent Open Source Linux Text Editors

This 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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Music Players

5 Highly Promising Music Players

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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4 Cutting Edge Web Browsers

The 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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