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Tiling Window Managers

herbstluftwm – manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib. herbstluftwm is written from scratch.

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Automation

Actiona – cross-platform automation tool

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Actiona is an automation tool that allows you to execute many actions on your computer. This is free and open source software.

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Backup

XtraBackup – backup utility for MySQL

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Percona XtraBackup is an open-source backup utility for MySQL-based servers that performs non-blocking backups.

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Backup

Bareos – Backup Archiving REcovery Open Sourced

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is a reliable, cross-network open source software for backup, archiving and recovery of data.

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Backup

Bacula – network backup solution

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Bacula is a set of computer programs for the backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.

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Terminal Multiplexer

vtm – terminal multiplexer with window manager and session sharing

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

vtm is a terminal multiplexer with window manager and session sharing. It’s written in C++ and published under an open source license.

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System administration

PowerDNS – Authoritative server, the Recursor, and Dnsdist

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

PowerDNS consists of three DNS software products (the Authoritative server, the Recursor, and Dnsdist).

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Font Tools

KFontview – view and install fonts

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

KFontview is an application to view and install fonts. It’s also a standalone program to preview and install fonts from the net.

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Accountancy

GnuCash – personal and small-business financial-accounting software

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Financial

GnuCash is a personal and small-business financial accounting program. Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible.

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Accountancy

ledger – powerful, command-line double-entry accounting system

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

Ledger is a command-line based double-entry bookkeeping application that uses text files for input.

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Text Editor

Levee – vi clone

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Levee is a screen oriented editor based on the Unix editor “vi”. It provides a terse, powerful way to enter and edit text.

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Text Editor

Kakoune – implements Vi’s “keystrokes as a text editing language” model

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Kakoune is an open source code editor that implements Vi’s “keystrokes as a text editing language” model. It has similarities with Vim.

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Email

nmail – ncurses mail

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

nmail is a terminal-based email client with a user interface similar to alpine / pine. It’s written in C++ and MIT licensed.

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Email

mu4e – emacs-based email client based on mu

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Built on top of mu are some extensions, including mu4e, which is a full-featured e-mail client that runs inside Emacs.

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Images of shells by the sea

fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and other operating systems.

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Email

KMail – email component of Kontact

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

KMail is an email client included with the KDE desktop. It is the email component of Kontact, a integrated personal information manager.

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Fonts

Fontmatrix – font collections manager

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Fontmatrix is a manager built with the kind of features and abilities graphic designers, layout professionals along with others have felt necessary.

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Music

Tomahawk – music player

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

The developers of Tomahawk bill their application as a music player that fundamentally changes the way music is consumed and shared.

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Music

Elisa – music player developed by the KDE community

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Elisa is a music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be simple and pleasant to use. Free and open source software.

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Music

Musique – different take on the music player

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Musique is a small but sophisticated graphical music player. Musique unclutters your music listening experience with a clean and innovative interface.

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