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Xpad – lightweight desktop sticky notes application

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Xpad is a lightweight sticky-note utility with configurable fonts, colours, toolbars, workspace visibility and automatic note saving.

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Compositing Window Managers

Weston – lightweight and functional Wayland compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Weston provides a very basic desktop, or a full-featured environment for non-desktop uses such as automotive, embedded, in-flight, and more.

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Compositing Window Managers

labwc – Lab Wayland Compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for wayland, inspired by openbox.

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Compositing Window Managers

hikari – stacking Wayland compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

hikari is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

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Tiling Window Managers

Notion – tiling, tabbed window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Notion is a tiling, tabbed window manager for the X window system. The program is traditionally written to be very usable by mainly using the keyboard.

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Tiling Window Managers

Ratpoison – simple window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no fat library dependencies. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen.

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Tiling Window Managers

bspwm – tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

bspwm is a tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning. It represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree.

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Tiling Window Managers

i3 – improved tiling window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

i3 is a tiling window manager, completely written from scratch. i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and developers.

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Backup

BURP – network backup and restore program

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

BURP (BackUp and Restore Program) is an open source network backup and restore program. It uses librsync to save network traffic.

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Backup

Partclone – save and restore used blocks on a partition

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Partclone is a free and open source program similar to the well-known backup utility “Partition Image” a.k.a partimage.

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Backup

FOG – network computer cloning and management software

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Fog is a free and open source computer imaging solution. FOG ties together many open-source applications and adds an attractive web interface.

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Backup

rsync – fast incremental file transfer

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It copies files either to or from a remote host, or locally.

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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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Backup

Amanda – backup solution

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the administrator to set up a single master backup server.

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Terminal Multiplexer

mtm – micro terminal multiplexer

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

mtm stands for the Micro Terminal Multiplexer, a terminal multiplexer. mtm is free and open source software.

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Terminal Multiplexer

dvtm – dynamic virtual terminal manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

dynamic virtual terminal manager (dvtm) is a small open source utility that brings the concept of tiling window management.

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Terminal Multiplexer

screen – full-screen window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

screen is a terminal multiplexer that runs several separate “screens” on a single physical character-based terminal.

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System administration

MaraDNS – authoritative and recursive DNS server

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

MaraDNS provides authoritative domain hosting and recursive name resolution through separate daemons, with straightforward configuration.

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System administration

gdnsd – authoritative DNS server with geographic routing

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

gdnsd is an authoritative DNS server with geographic response steering, weighted balancing, health monitoring and automatic failover.

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System administration

Dnsmasq – DNS, DHCP and network boot services

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Dnsmasq supplies local DNS caching, DHCP services, IPv6 router advertisements and network boot features for small networks.

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