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Jupiter Applet
‘Jupiter is a light weight power and hardware control applet for Linux.  It is designed to improve battery life of a portable Linux computer by integrating with the operating system and changing parameters of the computer based on battery or powered connection.’
linux  power  battery 
7 days ago by threedaymonk
Why Linux
‘I realize I’ve spent far more down-time un-fucking b0rked packages [on OS X] than I ever did trying to get Linux to talk to my wifi card.’
linux  osx 
21 days ago by threedaymonk
stormfs
Mount S3 (and similar) as a local filesystem using FUSE.
fuse  linux  s3  filesystem 
5 weeks ago by threedaymonk
ZFS on Linux
Reported to work very well, although you must compile it yourself as the ZFS and Linux licences prohibit distribution of compiled binaries.
linux  zfs  filesystem 
6 weeks ago by threedaymonk
Tomahawk
Open-source, cross-platform music player that can play music from a variety of sources, including Spotify, YouTube, etc.
music  player  audio  mp3  linux  software 
7 weeks ago by threedaymonk
Mosh: the mobile shell
‘Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes.‘ Works over SSH in a terminal.
ssh  unix  linux  terminal 
7 weeks ago by threedaymonk
Cinnamon
Alternative Linux UI from Linux Mint.
linux  xorg  x11  ui 
january 2012 by threedaymonk
Trimage (lossless) image compressor
‘A cross-platform tool for losslessly optimizing PNG and JPG files.’
compression  images  linux 
november 2011 by threedaymonk
xcursorclamp
‘clamps the cursor to visible regions (CRTCs) of the virtual screen.’
linux  x11  xorg  mouse  cursor 
october 2011 by threedaymonk
Optimizing TCP slow start
Speed up transfers on Linux by tweaking the initial receiver and congestion window sizes (without a kernel patch).
linux  network  webdev 
october 2011 by threedaymonk
lsof
How to find all kinds of information with lsof.
unix  linux  network 
october 2011 by threedaymonk
BrowserLinux
‘BrowserLinux is a fast and small (93 Mb!) Linux distribution for surfing the web.’
linux  internet  browser  distribution 
september 2011 by threedaymonk
Learning Unix
Miguel de Icaza’s recommendations on books to improve Unix skills.
programming  unix  linux  reference  education 
september 2011 by threedaymonk
lessfs
‘A high performance inline data deduplicating filesystem for Linux.’
filesystem  compression  linux  backups 
august 2011 by threedaymonk
EC2StartersGuide
Good general introduction to using EC2 command-line tools on Ubuntu.
amazon  aws  ec2  ubuntu  linux 
august 2011 by threedaymonk
EFIKA MX Smarttop
Tiny, cheap, low-power ARM computer running Ubuntu. Has graphics acceleration & HDMI output
linux  ubuntu  arm  computer 
august 2011 by threedaymonk
TunesViewer
‘TunesViewer is a small, easy to use program to access itunes-university media and podcasts in Linux.’
itunes  linux  podcast  education 
august 2011 by threedaymonk
The Leading Cause Of The Recent Linux Kernel Power Problems
Phoronix finds the problem and a solution with a test rig, a power meter, and git-bisect.
linux  power  kernel 
june 2011 by threedaymonk
GNUpod
Command-line tools (written in Perl) to put music on an iPod.
linux  ipod  perl 
june 2011 by threedaymonk
prgmr.com
Cheap Xen VPS hosting.
hosting  linux  vps 
may 2011 by threedaymonk
s3ql - a full-featured file system for online data storage
‘S3QL is a file system that stores all its data online. It supports Amazon S3 as well as arbitrary SFTP servers and effectively provides you with a hard disk of dynamic, infinite capacity that can be accessed from any computer with internet access.’
aws  s3  backup  filesystem  fuse  linux 
april 2011 by threedaymonk
Why OS X just doesn’t cut it
Someone else who, like me, was frustrated developing under OS X and who switched to Linux.
linux  osx  gui  development 
april 2011 by threedaymonk
A Tarsnap-Alike for Private Storage
‘ddar is an open source userspace de-duplicating archiver for Unix.’
backup  unix  linux  archive 
march 2011 by threedaymonk
HOWTO: Easily enable MP3, MPEG4, AAC, and other restricted encoders in FFmpeg
Because I don’t care about unenforceable software patents, and nor should you.
ubuntu  audio  video  ffmpeg  linux  patents 
january 2011 by threedaymonk
Buildroot
‘Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy to generate a complete embedded Linux system. Buildroot can generate any or all of a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a kernel image and a bootloader image.’
linux  embedded  development  compiler  toolchain 
january 2011 by threedaymonk
Booting ISO images from within GRUB2
There’s no need to burn a disk or make a USB boot key if you've got a working system already.
linux  iso  installation 
january 2011 by threedaymonk
Prey
An open-source anti-theft tracking system for laptops and mobile phones. Works with Linux and Android.
security  android  linux  tracking 
january 2011 by threedaymonk
WMFS
‘[Window Manager From Scratch] is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X.’
x11  xorg  linux  window-manager 
december 2010 by threedaymonk
avahi-alias
Publish multiple domain names via Avahi/mDNS.
avahi  dns  mdns  linux 
november 2010 by threedaymonk
darktable
‘darktable is a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers.’ A Linux equivalent to Aperture or Lightroom.
photography  linux  graphics 
july 2010 by threedaymonk
Aleutia
Low power, low cost computers that come with Ubuntu installed.
computer  linux  ubuntu  environment 
june 2010 by threedaymonk
Minitube
Native YouTube client for Linux.
linux  youtube  video 
june 2010 by threedaymonk
Mac OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart
‘The chart below shows all available netbooks that, to our knowledge, will natively run Mac OS X.’ Might also be a good indicator of which devices have common hardware.
osx  netbook  hackintosh  linux 
may 2010 by threedaymonk
Linenoise
‘A minimal, zero-config, BSD licensed, readline replacement.’
unix  linux  cli  readline  library 
march 2010 by threedaymonk
EPEL
‘Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is a volunteer-based community effort from the Fedora project to create a repository of high-quality add-on packages for Red Hat Enterprise (RHEL) and its compatible spinoffs such as CentOS or Scientific Linux.’
linux  sysadmin  redhat  rhel  epel  centos  rpm  repository 
january 2010 by threedaymonk
lockrun - Run cron job with overrun protection
‘Before launching the given command, it insures that another instance of the same command is not already running.’
unix  linux  sysadmin  cron 
november 2009 by threedaymonk
Bug 592665 – Apple.com blocking of gstreamer
Apple.com only serves video if the user agent identifies itself as Quicktime. Pretty evil in my opinion.
apple  linux  quicktime  video  evil 
august 2009 by threedaymonk
OpenInkpot
‘OpenInkpot is a free and open-source Linux distribution for eink-based devices.’
linux  ebooks 
august 2009 by threedaymonk
Caffeine: Not Just for Beverages Anymore
Linux utility to prevent the screensaver, either based on user choice or on currently running programs.
linux  ubuntu  screen  screensaver 
june 2009 by threedaymonk
uzbl
‘A browser that adheres to the unix philosophy.’
unix  linux  web 
may 2009 by threedaymonk
Fritzing
An open-source, cross-platform software tool that ‘allows users to document their Arduino and other electronic-based prototypes, and to create a PCB layout for manufacturing.’
electronics  diy  hardware  software  microcontroller  opensource  linux  windows  osx  arduino  pcb 
may 2009 by threedaymonk
Alestic.com
Ubuntu and Debian AMIs for Amazon EC2
amazon  ec2  sysadmin  ubuntu  debian  linux  ami 
may 2009 by threedaymonk
Elisa, the free media player
‘Elisa is an open source cross-platform media center connecting the Internet to an all-in-one media player.’
linux  windows  opensource  free  video  htpc 
may 2009 by threedaymonk
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