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I'm a big curious about IT things and fan of Open Source and GNU/Linux. |
htop & iotop
Process, memory and io monitoring.
ttyrec & ipbt
Record and play back terminal sessions.
rsync
Keeps filesystems in sync over SSH.
mtr
traceroute 2.0.
socat & netpipes
Directing stuff easily in and out of sockets.
iftop & iptraf
To see where your traffic goes.
siege & tsung
Command line load test tools.
ledger
Terminal-based accounting package.
taskwarrior
Todo management in the terminal.
curl
Everybody's favorite HTTP toolbox.
rtorrent & aria2
Command line torrent downloaders.
ttytter & earthquake
Nice trendy Twitter clients :)
vifm & ranger
Alternatives to the midnight commander.
cowsay & sl
I just couldn't resist. :o)
I'm interested about a point of balance between a GUI and CLi interface, maybe a runlevel 3 able to display some graphic applications or a barebone, stumped X service or something like that. Maybe that is not possible, but Stumpwm (Stump window manager) is what I had in mind. Although it needs X for running, it works only through terminals and command lines for interacting with it. I'm anxious to play with it. Other thing I like a lot, is that you can use it also through the Emacs editor.
Bashish is a theme enviroment for text terminals. It can change colors, font,
transparency and background image on a per-application basis. Additionally
Bashish supports prompt changing on common shells such as bash, zsh and tcsh.
Unhosted is a project for strengthening free software against hosted software. With our protocol, a website is only source code. Dynamic data is encrypted and decentralised, to per-user storage nodes. This benefits free software, as well as scalability, robustness, and online privacy.
Open source software has had a major impact on the applications and platforms we all use today. Linux is now a very viable alternative to Windows and Mac OS even for beginner PC users. The Android operating system looks set to dominate on mobile hardware, and more and more software applications are being released for free as open source projects by anyone who can learn to program.
Now the same looks set to happen for hardware. With the development of cheap, easy to use electronics components as part of the Arduino computing platform, it’s becoming much easier to create your own hardware solutions without spending a lot of money.
Open Source Hardware. Great!
The TTY demystified
Real teletypes in the 1940s.
The TTY subsystem is central to the design of Linux, and UNIX in general. Unfortunately, its importance is often overlooked, and it is difficult to find good introductory articles about it. I believe that a basic understanding of TTYs in Linux is essential for the developer and the advanced user.
100% green web hosting, eco-friendly servers, solar and wind powered services – the list of environmentally friendly products is growing every day. One of the newest hot phrases flung around lately is “organic software.” Exactly what is organic software and how is it implemented into hosted web sites?
The actual meaning
The term “organic software” is simply a rephrasing of open source software that is available to download off of the internet. The software is designed, developed and distributed freely all the while offering complete accessibility to its source code. Because it is available for free download, there is no manufacturing process put into the creation of software disks. You are left with software that makes no carbon footprint or impact on the environment. When we think of the word “organic” we are left with the impressions of something home-grown, without the use of chemicals. In a bit of a leap, the word organic in this case is used to convey simply “home-grown”. So, instead of the mouthful of “free to download open source software,” we can use the term “organic software.”
