recommendations for software for a particular purpose
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What would be a light weight, memory non-intensive distro for virtual server use?
I have come across several posts talking about light weight distros from a general context, but none of them are really hitting the nail on the head for me.
Specifically, I have PHP script that I run ...
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Advice an eBook reader for Gnome
There are eBook readers for Android, there's Okular for KDE, and stuff like that, but what I want, is an eBook (ePub format) reader for my normal Linux desktop.
I know there's Calibre, which goes way ...
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EPUB reader for *BSD/Linux
The question is simple, I want know what are the best native EPUB readers for *BSD/Linux. The addons for browsers aren't a option :)
I prefer non-Qt applications but you can share QT applications if ...
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Should I investigate Rocks or Ubuntu/Mosix for building a cluster?
I work at a college doing system administration. Someone in their lab is looking to build a cluster for running complex Octave and C++ projects.
They have brand new modern machines. My question is ...
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Which desktop environments let you switch to a non-default window manager?
I used to use fvwm as the window manager under Gnome 2, but as I understand Gnome 3 can't be used with a non-default window manager, so I'm looking for alternatives. Are there other desktop ...
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Console Text Editor with Windows-like keyboard shortcuts (ctrl-z, x, c, v)
Ok, I realise that I risk a religious war asking a question about text editors, but here goes.
Requirements
Mostly used for config file edits
Text based not GUI
Available for Raspian flavour of ...
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Is there a command like head but for line truncation?
Linux's head selects a number of lines from the top of a file. Is there a command that selects a number of characters from the front of a line?
The use case behind the question is this: I want to ...
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.lit reader for Linux
Is there any reader for ebooks in .lit format for Linux? Or is there one for Windows that I can run on my Linux with Wine?
Distro: openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 and Linux Mint 12 x86_64
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Music management software that sync playlists onto Android device
I am trying to find a music management software that can sync playlists onto my Android phone running Cyanogenmod 9. BTW, this handset does not have an Internet connection.
Specifically, I want the ...
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Define length and scale picture
Is there any program under linux where I can do the following:
Suppose I have for example a scan of a drawing on a squared paper and suppose that the squares of the original paper have any distance ...
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Linux software without Windows alternatives [closed]
Are there outstanding Linux programs which doesn't have Windows alternatives?
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PDF editor with regular expressions for bookmarks?
Are there any Unix-based PDF editors with automatic bookmark creation?
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How do you truncate all columns in a file to a specific length?
Given columned text in a file that is delimited by a certain character, how do you truncate the width of either a specific column(s) or all columns?
The use case is that I am reading some log files ...
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A simple hierarchical task list (that lets you cross out tasks) for linux in the Ubuntu repositories?
I just spent way too much time looking for this. Treeline is very close, but it doesn't allow marking a task as done with a single key press. It's a powerful data organizer and one has to change ...
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Convert audio to text
I heard about existence of some speech recognition systems, and it seems I need one of those. Basically, I have an audio file with speech (only one person is speaking most of the time), and I want to ...
