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30 Cool Open Source Software I Discovered

in 2013
Author: Vivek Gite Last updated: October 28, 2023 41 comments

These are full-featured open source software products, free as in beer and speech that I started
to use recently. Vivek Gite picks his best open source software of 2013.

#1 Replicant – Fully free Android distribution

Replicant is entirely free and open source distributions of Android on several devices
including both phones and tablets. I have installed it on an older Nexus S. You can install
apps from F-Droid store a GPLv2 client app that comes configured with a repository hosting
only free as in freedom applications.

Operating system : Linux/Android

Purpose : Free os for phone/tablets
Targets : User who wish to have a full control over the mobile phone with strong privacy
settings
License : Apache License 2.0/GPL 2.0
Download url : replicant.us

#2: Miro video converter

This is an open source, cross-platform application to convert videos from and to various
formats, including formats suitable for devices such as Android/iOS phones. It is simple and
easy to use software to convert almost any video to MP4, WebM (vp8), Ogg Theora
format. Miro Video Converter is based on FFMPEG and act as a front end to FFMPEG
command line tools.

Operating system : Cross-platform

Purpose : Video converter
Targets : Multimedia users
License : GPL
Download url : mirovideoconverter.com

#3 OwnCloud – Dropbox alternative for cloud storage

service
I was looking for an alternative to Dropbox to run cloud on my own server at home and
office. This software is open source software, and it is self hosted. I don’t have to trust third
party with my data. I found this software easy to install and quite useful. I started to use it for
syncing files and other data. I have been using for couple of months and it has been proven
reliable alternative to Dropbox. There are clients available for MS-Windows, OS X, Linux,
and mobile apps for iOS and Android devices (or simply access data using the ownCloud web
frontend).

Operating system : Cross-platform

Purpose : Cloud storage (Data synchronization)
Targets : Home users/IT departments/Sysadmins
License : AGPLv3
Download url : owncloud.org

#4 Docker – FreeBSD like container+API for Linux

The FreeBSD jail provides an operating system-level virtualization partition a FreeBSD-based
serve into several independent mini-systems. You can do the same with Linux using OpenVZ.
Linux Containers (LXC) is a virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux
systems. Docker extends LXC. It uses LXC, cgroups, Linux kernel and other parts to
automate the deployment of applications inside software containers. It comes with API to runs
processes in isolation. With docker I can pack WordPress (or any other app written in
Python/Ruby/Php & friends) and its dependencies in a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient
container. I can deploy and test such container on any Linux based server.
Operating system : Linux amd64
Purpose : OS level virtualization
Targets : DevOps/Sysadmins
License : Apache License 2.0
Download url : docker.com

#5 Adminer – A lightweight and full-featured database

management tool
Adminer is a full-featured database management tool written in PHP. Conversely to
phpMyAdmin, it consists of a single file ready to deploy to the target server. Adminer is
available for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL and Oracle. I usually install this for
clients who are new to PostgreSQL/MySQL. The software acts as a drop-in-replacement for
phpMyAdmin with a better user interface, better support for MySQL features, higher
performance and more security.
Operating system : Cross-platform
Purpose : Database management
Targets : DBA/new users
License : Apache License or GPL 2
Download url : adminer.org

#6 MariaDB – Drop-in replacement for Oracle MySQL

server
MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL server. MariaDB is going to be
default in many popular Linux distro and open source project. Red Hat will switch the default
database in its enterprise distribution, RHEL (including its clones such as CentOS), from
MySQL to MariaDB, when version 7 is released in 2014. I started testing MariaDB and found
no problems at all. The speed is same or better in some cases.

Operating system : Cross-platform

Purpose : RDBMS
Targets : DevOps/Sysadmins
License : GPL/LGPL
Download url : mariadb.org

#7 RackTables – Manage your data center assets like a pro

I wish I discovered RackTables earlier. It is is a datacenter asset management system. With
this software one can document hardware assets (such as server, workstations, routers,
switches and more), network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration and more:
 1. List of all devices, racks, and enclosures you’ve got
2. Mount the devices into the racks
3. Maintain physical ports of the devices and links between them
4. Manage IP addresses, assign them to the devices and group them into networks
5. Document your NAT rules, describe your loadbalancing policy and store
loadbalancing configuration
6. Attach files to various objects in the system
7. Create users, assign permissions and allow or deny any actions they can do

Operating system : Cross-platform

Purpose : IDC asset management system
Targets : Sysadmin/DevOPS/IT Managers
License : GPL
Download url : racktables.org
#8 Apache Cordova – Create smartphone app just with
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Apache Cordova is a free and open source framework that allows you to create mobile apps
using standardized web APIs. You can create apps that work on iOS, Andriod, BlackBerry,
Windows, Ubuntu and other phone based operating systems. You write code once and run on
selected mobile platforms with little or no change at all. PhoneGap uses Apache Cordova.

Operating system : iOS, Android, webOS, Symbian, BlackBerry, Ubuntu Touch, Windows
Phone, Windows 8
Purpose : Build native mobile apps
Targets : Developers
License : Apache License 2.0
Download url : cordova.apache.org or phonegap.com

#9 Angry IP scanner – ipscan tool

Nmap is an open source security tool for network exploration, security scanning and auditing.
ipscan (Angry IP Scanner) is an alternative to nmap command. It is also an open-source and
cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use. It scans IP addresses
and ports as well as has many other features.

Operating system : Cross-platform

Purpose : Network scanner
Targets : Sysadmin/Network administrators
License : GPL 2
Download url : angryip.org

#10 Jekyll – Create simple static blog

Drupal, Typo3, WordPress and many other content management system (CMS)/blogging
software dynamically create feature rich content. However, you may not need all the all
features and complexity offered by modern CMS based systems. For example, a WordPress
based blog like nixCraft requires multiple VMs, CDN for static assets, caching engine such as
memcached, PHP, mysql database, comment moderation, and on going updates. A growing
trend is to keep your blog simple by avoiding CMS and use static HTML generators that
offers the following benefits:

 No more complex setups i.e. no databases/php/caching engines required.

 No more comment moderation.
 Pesky updates.
 Static files are more secure.
 Easy to scale or cache on edge/CDN nodes.
 Provides all the blog-aware visual bells and whistles such as categories, pages, posts,
Permalinks, and custom layouts.

Operating system : Cross-platform

Purpose : Blogging system
Targets : Bloggers who wish to follow KISS principal.
License : MIT License
Download url : jekyllrb.com
Similar apps: Haskell based Hakyll, Ruby based nanoc, Python based Pelican.

#11 TurnKey Linux – Deploy open source apps on VM or

the clouds
You can setup a open source software such as WordPress, Drupal, ZenCart, and over 100+
other software easily with TurnKey Linux. It is a virtual appliance library that integrates and
polishes the very best open source software into ready to use solutions. Each virtual appliance
is optimized for ease of use and can be deployed in just a few minutes on bare metal, a
virtual machine and in the cloud/in physical server. TurnKey Linux is based on Debian 7.2
with automatic security updates for all packages. It also includes a web management interface,
web shell, and simple configuration console. I often use this to deploy development server in
the cloud.
Operating system : Linux
Purpose : Virtual appliance library
Targets : Sysadmin/Developers/DevOPS
License : Free software licenses
Download url : turnkeylinux.org

#12 DokuWiki – Create a personal wiki

DokuWiki is a simple to use and highly versatile open source wiki software that doesn’t
require a database. Easy to install on Linux or Unix-like operating systems with the
following features:

1. Ease of use and low system requirements.

2. Built-in access control lists.
3. Customization using large variety of extensions, plugins, and templates.

I use this on my laptop to keep notes about various projects.

Operating system : Cross-platform

Purpose : Documentation
Targets : Wiki users.
License : GPL 2
Download url : dokuwiki.org

#13 MediaGoblin – An alterative to

Youtube/Flickr/Soundcloud
GNU MediaGoblin is free software, decentralized media publishing platform. You can host
and share videos, music, and images using MediaGoblin. It is an alternative to major
media-publishing services such as Flickr, deviantArt, YouTube, Soundcloud, etc. It is
written in Python and SQL.

Operating system : Linux/OSX/MS-Windows

Purpose : Sharing many forms of digital media
Targets : Freedom respectful media sharing self-hosted service
License : AGPLv3/CC0
Download url : mediagoblin.org

#14: Scrollout F1 – Create email firewall gateway

Scrollout F1 is easy to use and setup email firewall gateway system. It includes anti-spam
and anti-virus protection for Microsoft Exchange, Postfix, Exim, Sendmail, Qmail and others.
It runs on Debian and Ubuntu Linux operating systems. This is perfect software for filtering
incoming messages and other features are as follows:

1. TLS/SSL encryption with Perfect Forward Secrecy for SMTP & HTTPS
2. Virus scanning and different Quarantine per domain
3. Tagging and blocking SPAM at domain level
4. Geographic filtering for Sender IP, Server IP, URL IP and TLDs
5. Verifies incoming emails for DKIM and signs outgoing emails (2048 bits RSA)
6. Protection against fake messages that appear to come from your domain or from
yourself
 7. Protection against executable files, malicious content, scripts and more
8. Protection against forged domains like (fake) yahoo.com, gmail.com etc.
9. Whitelist and Blacklist
10. Simple web interface for management

Operating system : Linux

Purpose : Firewall and anti-spam gateway for MS-Windows/Linux/Unix-like email servers
Targets : Sysadmin
License : GPL
Download url : scrolloutf1.com

#15 Observium – Network observation and monitoring

system
Observium is free and open source software written in PHP/MySQL. It collects data from
devices using SNMP and presents it via a web interface. It includes support for a wide range
of network hardware and operating systems including Cisco, Windows, Linux, HP, Dell,
FreeBSD, Juniper, Brocade, Netscaler, NetApp and many more. I use this software along
with Nagios to get better understanding of certain devices and technologies. It provides
historical and current performance statistics, configuration visualization and syslog capture.
Operating system : Linux/Unix-like
Purpose : Network monitoring
Targets : Sysadmin
License : Observium License
Download url : observium.org

#16 SimpleInvoices
It is a web based invoicing system. It helps me to create quick and nice looking invoices
without having to set up too much services on server. All you have to do is install the
SimpleInvoices software, enter a biller, a customer details and go creating invoices. You can
easily track your finances; send invoices as PDF’s and more. It is the best invoicing set up
for my independent IT consultancy business.
Operating system : Linux/Unix-like/Windows/OSX
Purpose : Invoicing system
Targets : Sole traders/Small business owners
License : Observium License
Download url : No longer avaible and outdated.
Similar apps : BambooInvoice – another invoicing software intended for small businesses
and independent contractors. (outdated)

More cool apps

I sometime use and recommend the following software for MS-Windows/Linux users due
to simplicity and ease of use features. Here is the list of the other best and FOSS apps of
2013:

#17 FileZilla – sftp/ftp client for noobs

This is a perfect open-source FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer
Protocol (SFTP) client for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. It has the following
features that new users might find useful:

1. Drag & drop support

2. Tabbed user interface
3. File transfer queue and bookmarks
4. Remote file editing and remote file search
5. SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support
Operating system : Cross-platform
Purpose : FTP client
Download url : filezilla-project.org

#18 WinSCP – Easily transfer file using scp

It is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the
secure file transfer between local and server under your control. Most new MS-Windows user
find WinSCP an easier to use as compare to putty and friends.

Operating system : MS-Windows

Purpose : SFTP/FTP client
Download url : winscp.net

#19 XAMPP – Easily write and test Apache+MySQL+PHP/Perl apps on

desktop

I give this software to many developers. They can easily setup Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl to
deploy and write an application on their own desktop. No need to install virtual machine and
Linux server. Just focus on development and skip real server management job to pros.
Operating system : Cross-platform
Purpose : Apache distribution for desktop user/developers.
Download url : apachefriends.org

#20 Abiword – A nice little word processor

Many users only use 2% of the features of a program like Microsoft Word. No need to spend
money or time on Microsoft Word. I personally use Abiword due to:

1. Easy to use and not bloated as OO.org.

2. Small size word processor i.e. it loads very fast on my old computer.
3. I can read and write OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents,
WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and more.
4. Abiword is tightly integrated with the abisource.com web service, which lets you store
documents online, allows easy document sharing with your friends, and performs
format conversions on the fly.
Operating system : Cross-platform
Purpose : Word processing program
Download url : abisource.com

#21 {less}: The dynamic stylesheet language

LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and
functions. LESS can run on the client-side and server-side or can be compiled into plain CSS.

Operating system : Cross-platform

Purpose : Web developers
Download url : lesscss.org

#22 Cinnamon

Cinnamon is a GTK+ based desktop environment and a fork of the GNOME Shell. It was
initially developed by Linux Mint. It offers a user interface with the following features that I
needed most:

1. A movable panel equipped with a main menu, launchers, a window list and the
system tray
2. Various extensions and applets
3. Cinnamon makes GNOME3 a useful desktop
Operating system : Linux
Purpose : Desktop user
Download url : linuxmint.com

#23 Tmux

Tmux is terminal multiplexers for Unix-like platforms. tmux offers several advantages over
GNU/screen:

1. Vi or emacs key layouts

2. Multiple paste options
3. Secure code base
4. An option to limit the window size and more.
Operating system : Linux/Unix-like
Purpose : Terminal multiplexer
Download url : github.com/tmux/tmux

#24 Artica – Full SMTP/Mail/Proxy server Appliance in 10 minutes

It is a simple and straightforward software that offers the following features:

1. Proxy server Appliance

2. SMTP server Appliances
3. Mail server Appliances
4. NAS server Appliance
5. Web based management
Operating system : Linux
Purpose : Turn normal server into appliances
Download url : articatech.net

#25 Zentyal small business server

Zentyal is a full-featured Linux server for small and medium businesses that you can set
up in less than 30 minutes. It is a drop-in replacement for Microsoft Small Business Server
and Microsoft Exchange Server. It is easy to use software. Zentyal is based on Ubuntu and
it can be installed either from Ubuntu repositories or from Zentyal’s own installer.
Operating system : Linux
Purpose : Office server
Download url : zentyal.org

#26 Ack-grep – a source code search tool for programmers

ack-grep is a grep like tool, optimized for programmers. This tool isn’t aimed to “search all
text files”. It is specifically created to search source code trees, not trees of text files. It
searches entire trees by default while ignoring Subversion, Git and other VCS directories and
other files that aren’t your source code.
Operating system : Cross-platform
Purpose : Search source trees
Download url : beyondgrep.com

#27 ditaa – DIagrams Through Ascii Art

ditaa is a small command-line utility, that can convert diagrams drawn using ascii art, into
proper bitmap graphics. I use this tool all the time to draw diagrams and forwarding them
via email or chat session.

Operating system : Cross-platform

Purpose : Convert diagrams drawn using ascii art
Download url : ditaa.sourceforge.net

#28 GNU parallel

GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. If you
like xargs command, try GNU/parallel utility. It can run command/script/job on all available
CPU’s or on multiple computers.
Operating system : Cross-platform (Perl)
Purpose : Execute shell scripts/jobs in parallel
Download url : gnu.org

#29 luckyBackup data back-up and synchronization tool

luckyBackup is an application for data back-up and synchronization powered by the rsync
tool. It is simple to use, fast, safe, reliable and fully customizable backup software. I often set
and recommend this too for new Ubuntu/Fedora desktop users to backup their own files.
Operating system : Linux/Unix-like
Purpose : Desktop backup
Download url : luckybackup.sourceforge.net (no longer updated and development is frozon)

#30 OpenShot video editor

OpenShot Video Editor is a free and open-source non-linear video editing software package
for Linux. I use this tool to create videos for my youtube channel. It is a stable, free, and
friendly to use video editor on Linux.
Operating system : Linux
Purpose : Video editing
Download url : openshot.org

Conclusion
This is my personal FOSS software list and it is not absolutely definitive, so if you’ve got
your own software, share in the comments below. Also don’t forget to check out our previous
years 15 greatest open source terminal applications of 2012.

[ Happy New Year to all nixCraft visitors. I hope that 2014 proves to be just as awesome for
Linux & FOSS enthusiast everywhere. ]

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41 comments… add one

 John Knoop Dec 31, 2013 @ 21:39

Thanks for the list. I will definitely check out a couple of these.
Here are a few of my favorite:
qcad – cad software for Linux – free in repositories and powerful
grpn – I can’t even work those other calculators anymore – free in the repositories
calibre – I use this a lot with my ipad

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o David M Jan 1, 2014 @ 13:25

Got a link to grpn? every search I do shows up ‘groupon’.

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 � nixcraft Jan 1, 2014 @ 18:43

https://github.com/getreu/grpn

HTH

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 John Knoop Jan 2, 2014 @ 4:13

http://lashwhip.com/grpn.html is straight to the guy who wrote it

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o Soul_Est Mar 20, 2014 @ 19:01

Don’t forget FreeCAD.

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 Richzendy Dec 31, 2013 @ 23:17

The download url to simpleinvoices it’s bad, that url follow to observium app instead
to simpleinvoices project

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 o � nixcraft Jan 1, 2014 @ 4:48

Thanks for the heads up!

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 bloggerkedar Jan 1, 2014 @ 0:49

If you like jekyll, check out octopress which comes with handy and cool look and feel.

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o � nixcraft Jan 1, 2014 @ 9:01

Will do. Thanks!

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 Roger Corvell Jan 1, 2014 @ 4:38

Thanks for this list. It introduced me to a few projects I haven’t seen before.

I used to use Jekyll, but with a site that has hundreds of pages I became frustrated with
the really long build times (5+ minutes). I recently discovered hugo
(http://hugo.spf13.com) and have been very satisfied with it.

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o skrattaren Jan 1, 2014 @ 10:43

I use Nikola (http://getnikola.com/), and it doesn’t recompile unchanged files,

so unless I have run `sed` on my ~150 posts in reStructuredText, it’s
“compiled” quite fast.

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 skrattaren Jan 1, 2014 @ 10:38

ack-grep has become more or less obsolete for me since I’ve discovered
`the_silver_searcher` (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher)

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o Christian Bryn Feb 19, 2014 @ 13:06

cgvg is also darn cool. Find code, open in editor:

https://github.com/jreybert/cgvg

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  Christian Bryn Feb 19, 2014 @ 21:13

https://github.com/sampson-chen/sack seems to be a newer alternative

to cgvg utilizing ack/ag (ag is a faster ack)

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o Guest Nov 2, 2014 @ 14:38

The link doesn’t work because of an extra closing bracket on the end.

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 James Van Damme Jan 1, 2014 @ 15:46

I like OcenAudio as a replacement for Audacity audio editor.

http://www.ocenaudio.com.br/en

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o Jean Claude Apr 1, 2014 @ 21:14

James, Jean Claude here…

what exactly is wrong with Audacity?

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 Andrei Jan 1, 2014 @ 23:43

Going to drop it in: the windows software I’ve been using it in 2012. nothing new
here.

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 Arunkumar Narayanaswamy Jan 2, 2014 @ 3:38

First Informative and useful article that I read in Year 2014. Special Thanks to Entire
Team for your contribution, I will share this with all my professional contacts.

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 woolie Jan 2, 2014 @ 23:14

Synkron – a great solid useful backup and sync program from here:
http://synkron.sourceforge.net/

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 Blob Jan 24, 2014 @ 8:04

 Thanks for the great list. A lot of goodies there.

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 Stephen Sevenyoln Feb 17, 2014 @ 16:04

ABIword is aweful… Other than that, nice list.

Kingsoft Office is not open, but its free as in beer andworks,not to mention looks
better.

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o Shadow Cat Jan 12, 2015 @ 7:43

Abiword is not the best, why?

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 Kemal Kolayca Mar 17, 2014 @ 21:34

Thank you very much. This is a very useful and timesaving list.

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 rcontrol Apr 3, 2014 @ 15:03

No Blender?

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 Patrik Uytterhoeven Apr 19, 2014 @ 22:24

for documents i use asciidoc easy to create html, pdf, xml, … afterwards
for zentyal i recommend clearos
for firewalls i use endian

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 RedRose_13 Apr 25, 2014 @ 6:14

Fantastic!!! Many thanks for the effort!

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 Guillaume Renoult May 27, 2014 @ 6:45

I’ve just tried Adminer and it seems really good! Very lightweight for what it does.

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 Mark Roeling Jun 13, 2014 @ 6:15

Ack is great, Ag even better. Similar but even faster.

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

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 Ramprasad Jun 27, 2014 @ 10:04

Thank you

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 Jason Randle Jul 19, 2014 @ 21:56

Amazing List! Thank you for bringing this together! I can’t wait to play with
Openshot and Adminer.

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 vikesh gee Jul 22, 2014 @ 4:33

pls tell me some open source tools for non web based applications

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 Peter Sep 30, 2014 @ 3:41

I would recommend BYOBU as well. It uses tmux in the background and adds very
convenient Fn keys to open new terminal windows, create panes, switch between
panes, etc. Byobu is like a lightweight tmuxinator.

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 Susheel Tadka Nov 4, 2014 @ 6:18

Thank you for sharing your valuable information.this information very useful for
online learners
video management software

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 Jouni Järvinen Nov 13, 2014 @ 0:22

1) AbiWord ain’t an option compared to LibreOffice. Just being faster and more
lightweight doesn’t make it any better.
2) WinSCP works fine under Wine, and has support for encrypted PuTTY keys, unlike
FileZilla. That’s why I’ve dumped FZ and installed Wine+WinSCP, it’s more work
but well worth it.
3) §tmux§ is much harder to use than §screen§, among other things I don’t remember
 anymore, but they related to makes sense usage of it; you can’t use it as a drop-in
replacement to §screen§.
4) Last time I tried Adminer I was so displeased with how to use it. If it supports more
than pMA or has more security, and possibly working better, then I might consider it
as replacement for pMA which has since few versions started having weird issues.

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 M3ta Jan 2, 2015 @ 13:40

I wish that all the people who write “Andriod” instead of Android would just die a
horrible death.

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 Richard Feb 5, 2015 @ 14:40

Great list! Thanks this is very useful!

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 rhce training Jan 6, 2017 @ 8:20

Thanks for sharing

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 James Jul 30, 2017 @ 9:12

Thanks for sharing.

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 Baobab Nov 22, 2017 @ 13:22

DupeGuru : only one remains !

opensource dupes search, with many options
(be careful before searching from big recursive folder tree, as you may have
difficulties to choose the right original file; start with small trees to get used to it, you
have been warned)
https://www.hardcoded.net/dupeguru/

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 Anonymous Mar 11, 2022 @ 1:40

Searching ag • egrep • grep • whereis • which• locate

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