November 4, 2011 · General · 5 comments

Linux Essentials is a collection of Shell Scripts that restarts the desktop environment, but does not close any windows. It also updates the system.
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November 3, 2011 · Package Mgmt · 4 comments

Many people try purging packages and reinstalling them to reset them, but it sometimes removes other packages with it, so it becomes a headache (especially when you are trying to reset the X11 configuration files, removing a few hundred packages with it).

To solve these problems, lkjoel made a script called purgeconfig that will artificially reset the configuration files (manually removing the configuration files, marking the packages as purged, then reinstalling the packages).
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November 2, 2011 · General · 7 comments

The goal of this project is to create a WebTV player, working on the Linux platform. It can be used by french people to watch ADSL TV on the PC with ISPs or by other people to watch WebTV and Web Radio in many languages. The GUI is developed in GTK2+ and is using the VLC engine to display the channels.
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November 1, 2011 · General · (No comments)

Rodent is fast, small and powerful file manager for the GNU operating system (but it also works in BSD). That's one way to look at it. Another way is to call it a graphic shell (that's probably more accurate).
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October 31, 2011 · General · 1 comment

gt5 reads the output of du, compares it with a du-log saved by the last run, converts it into HTML and opens the resulting file with a
textbrowser.
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