"Unix command line utilities installer for Windows." Appears to be simpler than Cygwin. Yay?

"par is a paragraph reformatter, vaguely similar to fmt, but better"

"Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn't include with OS X."

"Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems"

"Ron is a humane text format and toolchain for creating UNIX man pages, and things that appear as man pages from a distance. Use it to build and install standard UNIX roff man pages or to generate nicely formatted HTML manual pages for the web. The Ron file format is based on Markdown. In fact, Ron files are a compatible subset of Markdown syntax but have a more rigid structure and extend Markdown in some ways to provide features commonly found in man pages (e.g., definition lists). The ron(5) manual page defines the format in more detail."

"Examine the life cycle of a process so that you can relate what you see happening on your system to what's going on within the kernel. System administrators must know how processes are created and destroyed within the UNIX® environment in order to understand how the system fits together and how to manage misbehaving processes. Similarly, developers must understand the UNIX processes model in order to write solid applications that run unattended and won't cause problems for system administrators."

"getmail is a mail retriever designed to allow you to get your mail from one or more mail accounts on various mail servers to your local machine for reading with a minimum of fuss. getmail is designed to be secure, flexible, reliable, and easy-to-use. getmail is designed to replace other mail retrievers such as fetchmail. "

"rxvt-unicode is a clone of the well known terminal emulator rxvt."

"MOST is a powerful paging program for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, and win32 systems. Unlike other well-known paging programs most supports multiple windows and can scroll left and right. Why settle for less?" Hahaha, why settle for _less_... hahaaha... haha. ha. wait, why isn't anyone else I know laughing?

"It's time for web servers to handle ten thousand clients simultaneously, don't you think? After all, the web is a big place now." (saving for my usual web archeology reasons...)

an in-house ascii meeting planning solution used at a UW engineering lab. i love this stuff.

"Btail monitors a logfile for specific events. To do this it uses a bayesian filter to determine what events are worth passing through and which should be suppressed. So it filters out all of the routine stuff, but passes through anything important or out of the ordinary." Hrm, that has promise.

Augeas is a configuration editing tool. It parses configuration files in their native formats and transforms them into a tree. Configuration changes are made by manipulating this tree and saving it back into native config files.

Unix shell tricks. Oft used uniq+sort tend to solve a lot of problems.

"In non technical terms libferris makes the file system and other hierarchical storage systems easier to use. For the geeks out there, libferris is a virtual file system (VFS) that runs in the user address space."

a little overview of what you can do with lsof

Planet is a lovely bit of Python software that aggregates RSS/ATOM feeds together by date. This is an article that describes how to setup the software.