recommendations for software for a particular purpose
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I'm looking for a free database package for Ubuntu
I need to operate a database for personal use. Now I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, as opposed to Windows operating system, I'm wondering if there's a dBase, Lotus123 or Access equivalent for Linux? ...
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Is there an alternative to the `which` command? [duplicate]
If the which command is not available, is there another 'standard' method to find out where a command's executable can be found?
If there is no other 'standard' method available, the actual system I ...
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Edit mp3 tags remotely from Windows
I have a Windows desktop at home. My mp3's are on a dedicated Debian server. How do I edit the mp3 tags on the Linux server from my windows PC with a GUI software? Is there a GUI software that can ...
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How to improve quality of microphone input
I am both new to linux and "sound processing" and I'm sorry if this looks like a question being answered with the first entry on Google. Because I don't even know what to google for.
A friend of mine ...
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Terminal-based spreadsheets and wordprocessor?
Are there any (good) terminal based (ie. runs in a VT, not in GUI/X) spreadsheets or wordprocessors for Unix/Linux? Can anybody remember the name of such programs which were popular before (eg. ...
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Program for choosing computers to run X clients on - what are such programs called?
At my college some 20 years ago they ran HPUX and had several X-terminals (terminals with graphic-cards that ran an X server, but left the running of X clients to the main computer). The college had ...
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Program for two-way synchronization of big files (VM disk images)
I heavily use virtual machines in my work and I need an efficient way of synchronizing them between my PCs.
I know of bigsync, but this program works well only for one-way synchronizing (like ...
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Quicktime-like video trimming in Linux? [closed]
One thing I loved about Quicktime 10 in Mac OS X (despite all its other shortcomings) was the ability to very easily trim a video file. I.e., I open the video in Quicktime drag two sliders to indicate ...
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Looking for App - Productivity measurement
I'm looking for an application which logs my productivity, i.e. logging how long I've been working using LibreOffice, Firefox, or whatever.
My request is similar to this: ...
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Command line expression solver?
I'm looking for a Linux-compatible TTY-based calculator. For example:
user@host:~$ calculate
> 2
2
user@host:~$ calculate
> 8*6-4
44
user@host:~$ calculate
> 8*(6-4)
16
Is there anything ...
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Efficient todo / project / task manager application?
I am looking at a todo / project/ task management application for Linux that goes beyond making a simple list of tasks with check boxes.
What I'm looking for is an application that will also help me ...
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What tool can I use to sniff HTTP/HTTPS traffic?
I'm looking for a command line tool that can intercept HTTP/HTTPS requests, extract information such as: (content, destination, etc.), perform various analysis tasks, and finally determine if the ...
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What makes a good network planner software on Linux?
I need to design a VoIP network topology for a customer and I need a software that can do as that famous Windows one, don't remember the name.
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Are there any GUI test suites for Linux?
I'm looking to automate some software testing that's currently done manually by a person. Are there any regression test suites for testing GUIs that run on Linux? I'm looking for a way to record and ...
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Personal health records software
Does anybody know personal health records software for Linux?
I want to record blood pressure, pulse, temperature, feel to analyze later. I will write information manually, as my measuring ...
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1answer
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Looking for simple photo organizing software for Linux
I am looking for a simple Linux software to organize photos. What exactly I want to do with this application is the following: I want to view all images in a given folder and just tag/star/mark some ...
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Alternative Window Manager [closed]
Is there a window manager, easy to install on Debian, that uses very little resources?
I only need bash and Firefox/Chrome, java and flash.
And maybe something like notepad++ for Linux. Though I'm ...
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Email client that understands both HTML and maildir
I'm using Mutt as my main email client, but I'm looking for another one for my work email (because of HTML email). I need one that can handle my existing Maildir email, to be able to switch between ...
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Is there any remote GUI for ffmpeg?
I'm looking for some software with both Linux and Windows versions that can remotely run FFMPEG commands on my Linux server. Just like what transmisson-remote-gui does for Transmission.
In summary, I ...
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IM program to support yahoo video calls
I have been trying to migrate to Linux from Windows during the past one year. Until I completely deleted my windows and I have been using Linux mint 15 for the last 30 days. I am really satisfied.
I ...
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get free string genre id3-tag and not only genre number in bash script
I'd like to read the id3-genre tag within a bash script.
I tried id3tool, eyeD3, etc -- but these tools just support the genre number. How to get the free string genre tag?
My music players (Amarok, ...
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Is there any FileZilla Server alternative (GUI based) in Linux?
I'm wondering is there any alternative to FileZilla server in Linux?
I'm looking for a server with GUI manager which offers nearly zero configuration so I can run and manage FileZilla server within ...
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1answer
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Alternatives to HUD
Are there alternatives to HUD (from unity) which work together with different window managers (especially with tiling WM's)?
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Open source MySQL performance tool
Are there any open source MySQL performance tools to help optimize SQL queries?
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ASCII art generator
I'm looking for an ASCII art generator (text is preferred, but images will do too) in the sl style, but with text instead of trains. Any suggestion?
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I need a text editor to edit/visualize >10GB text files
So as to vizualize, and hopefully edit, a very large text file, more than 10GBytes (a backup dump of whole database), I have tried using vim... it didn't behave very well.
I have also tried cat to at ...
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Looking for a good interactive pdf viewer
I like zathura for its simple UI, very nice for just reading.
I like xournal for its rich annotation features.
But what I still need is a reader that
is interactive,
has a "find" feature,
is able ...
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Is there a command line tool for validating RDF files?
I am looking for a substitution of the W3C RDF Validator, as it is broken, in addition I want something a bit more automated, such as a command line tool.
I have been using xmllint for checking XML ...
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Fedora 14 install Fedora 19 software?
I am using Fedora 14 right now and find some software in the fc14 repository is a little old.
I need some software in my machine to be updated, say, to the Fedora 19 version.
Without upgrading the ...
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A player/script which can show Image video and TV
I am looking for a script/player which can display Images, Videos, output of a TV, and some sort of ticker (text going from left to right or right to left).
All this components should be displayed ...
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GUI for find which can show video thumbnails
Is there a GUI for find (or just a graphical search tool which supports regex searches on filenames starting from a specific directory) which is able to show thumbnails found video and image files?
I ...
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What is a free open source webmail software with pgp support?
I've a virtual server not a ksm but with lighttpd and mysql and postfix. Can I use it to replace my existing free webmail and what is a good software? I also want to use pgp if it's possible?
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Note taking app that can sync both android and Linux
I've been looking high and low for an Evernote alternative for Linux. I know I can use Everpad or Evernote in WINE but they don't work natively.
Any note-taking app would be fine as long as it can ...
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SVN server with remote GUI administration
I have 2 Linux servers. One is Centos 5.5 another is Centos 6.
I want to install SVN server on both server separately.
Can anyone tell me which svn server has a good remote administration GUI.
Also ...
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Typing break with Awesome WM
Is there a program that implements typing breaks that works with the Awesome Window Manager?
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Recommendations for good MTA / groupware solutions?
I'm setting up a Debian server, and one of the things I need on it is an MTA. I don't want to use something like Exim or Postfix because I want something that ties in SMTP, POP3, and IMAP all in one ...
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Are there any comic book authoring programs?
Is there any software designed to assist with creating comic books? The basic features needed are pre-drawn frames around the panels and the ability to easily drag and drop characters into the scene, ...
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Chromakey -video-editing in Unix?
My friends are recommending me to use OSx for video-editing but trying to use old good OSs such as Debian and Ubuntu. How can I do chromakey -video-editing in some Unix or Linux?
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Bandwidth usage monitoring [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Find out network traffic per IP
I want to monitor my bandwidth usuage for wired as well wireless devices on my network.
Is there any tool, preferably one that does not ...
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Intruder nature detection by opensource tools like tripwire
I want to use different kind of intrusion detection tools like OpenSource Tripwire. Please suggest me some tools which can provide me some additional information to that provided by tripwire?
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How do you write specific bytes to a file?
Given a file myfile with the following contents:
$ cat myfile
foos
A hexdump of the file gives us the contents:
$ hexdump myfile
6f66 736f 000a
Currently, I can create the file by specifying the ...
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Is it possible to get specific information about how a file is compressed?
File compression works on the basic idea of assigning commonly recurring chains of strings to a common index of a table where the full string is stored.
For example:
Input file: foo bar bash baz foo ...
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Checking integrity of my server data
I want to make a log to detect the nature of intrusions into my Unix/Linux based server.
For that I want to learn some tools like Open Source Tripwire and OSSEC. Please suggest to me similar tools.
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Tool to watch latest software releases from upstream?
Does anyone know of a program/framework to watch latest software releases from upstream? For example for wordpress, apache/nginx, and so on. The program should just retrieve respective software ...
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How to install SMS Servers and Phone Servers?
If we want our servers to email, we know that we should install sendmail or qmail. If we want our servers to send sms or robot calling (e.g voice confirmation [insecure method] ), what should we ...
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How to record a flash movie from a live cam on the Internet?
I am watching some webcams live from the Internet, showing some big cities around the world. I'd like to record some to show to my friends at home.
Is it possible?
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Backup & restore from Linux to Windows while Linux is running
I have a lab with some Linux machines, some are Red Hat 5.1 machines installed on HPDL580 HW, and some are Linux installed on BLADE IBM machines.
Also I have laptop computer with Windows XP.
My ...
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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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Recommendation for 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
What are the best native EPUB readers for *BSD/Linux. Browser add-ons are not an option.
I prefer non-Qt applications but you can share Qt applications if you want. If possible, I want a program that ...
