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Bodhi Linux
A minimalist, enlightened Linux distribution
Bodhi is a minimalistic, enlightened, Linux desktop. Bodhi Linux is extremely lightweight and highly customizable. Bodhi is suitable for both Linux newcomers and experienced users. The Ubuntu LTS assures stability for years and the Bodhi Team is very open to all suggestions and requests from users and willing to help. -
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Archcraft
Yet another minimal Linux distribution, based on Arch Linux.
Archcraft is an arch-based rolling-release distribution aimed at users who cares more about minimalism and aesthetics of their desktop. It comes pre-configured with various lightweight applications which makes it super fast. It can run under 500Mb of memory. There's no desktop environment in (main) Archcraft, just two highly configured window managers - Openbox and Bspwm. The default username & password is 'liveuser' for live ISO. The installer can be found in the app launcher and in openbox menu under the Application > System category, namely 'Install Archcraft'. Archcraft uses two Installers, Calamares and ABIF -
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Mabox Linux
Lightweight ready to use OpenBox Desktop Rolling-release Manjaro based
Mabox is a Manjaro based, desktop Linux distribution. The project ships with Openbox as the default desktop with pinch of customistations and home-brewed tools, like improved menu, side-panels and Mabox Control Center. Works great even on weaker computers. -
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Xming X Server for Windows
X Window System Server for Windows
Xming is the leading X Window System Server for Microsoft Windows 8/7/Vista/XP (+ server 2012/2008/2003). It is fully featured, small and fast, simple to install and because it is standalone native Microsoft Windows, easily made portable (not needing a machine-specific installation). -
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QTTabBar is extension for Windows Explorer that brings tabbed browsing to Microsoft's file browser, along with a host of other great features. Under new management! Now in public beta!
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Window Maker Live
Window Maker Live Linux Distribution
Window Maker Live is an installable Linux Live ISO based on the current Trixie branch of Debian. The system uses the Window Maker window manager as the default graphical user interface. Window Maker Live's components have been carefully preconfigured and the desktop environment has a consistent visual appearance. Window Maker Live integrates selected components from other desktop environments such as XFCE4, MATE, LXQT, with a particular focus on GNUstep. The main idea behind this project is to integrate the Window Maker window manager as default user interface on top of a standard Debian/Trixie base system. It also serves as an alternate installation medium for Debian/Trixie. The second main idea not directly visible on the surface level is the inclusion of many useful command line utilities and tools for system administration. This effectively turns wmlive into a UNIX administrator's workbench for rescue and repair operations. -
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Rename-It!
Windows software to safely rename of thousands of files via regex.
Define some filters to apply to a list of files, which can be in multiple folders, to rename the whole list at once. It checks the file names, integrates in the Shell (via Explorer context menu), supports regular expressions, ID3 tags, and much more. Moved to GitHub https://github.com/wernight/renameit/ -
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WinExplorer is a utility that shows all system's windows in hierarchical display. For every window in the hierarchy, you can view its properties, like handle, class name, caption, size, position and more. You can also modify some properties, like Caption and Visible/Enabled. This utility is released as freeware with full source code. You can freely use, distribute, and modify the source code of this utility without restrictions. However, if you release to the public a modified version of this utility, you should specify the original copyright notice.
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Menu Maker is 100% Python heuristics-driven menu generator for a number of X Window Managers and desktop environments. It features large knowledge base of known programs, powerful and flexible search algorithms, persistence of menus across several WMs
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SystemTrayMenu
SystemTrayMenu - Browse and open your files easily
SystemTrayMenu is an open source 'Desktop Toolbar' or 'Start Menu' alternative. It offers a clear, personalized menu which can be controlled via keyboard, mouse or touchscreen. Files, links and folders are organized in several levels as dropdown menus. Various options like appearance, hotkey, autostart and behavior can be adjusted. It is written in C# and using .NET 7. SystemTrayMenu is portable, so it does not need to be installed. After downloading the zip file, unzip the folder, then start SystemTrayMenu.exe. After starting the application the first time you have to choose the root directory. In this directory you should put shortcuts, files and folders (App, Game, Script, URL, Network), which you are often using and especially when you can not find them over the windows start menu search. You can also consider to put there all files from your desktop. If you have ideas, questions or a problem you can contact the developer Markus Hofknecht via GitHub or email. -
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Clicky Gone
Hide windows from praying eyes or for the comfort of a clean desktop.
Hide windows from praying eyes or for the comfort of a clean desktop. Has a boss key feature that hides the active window and mutes the sound. You can also manage the priority of your applications through your applications system menu. -
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Rofi
A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
Rofi started as a clone of the simple switcher, written by Sean Pringle - a popup window switcher roughly based on a super switcher. Simpleswitcher laid the foundations, and therefore Sean Pringle deserves most of the credit for this tool. Rofi (renamed, as it lost the simple property) has been extended with extra features, like an application launcher and ssh-launcher, and can act as a drop-in menu replacement, making it a very versatile tool. Rofi, like dmenu, will provide the user with a textual list of options where one or more can be selected. This can either be running an application, selecting a window, or options provided by an external script. It's not an application that can support every possible use case. It tries to be generic enough to be usable by everybody. Rofi has several built-in modes implementing common use cases and can be extended by scripts (either called from Rofi or calling Rofi) or plugins. -
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LuninuxOS
LuninuxOS is a Debian/Ubuntu based Linux distribution.
A Linux operating system, designed and developed to be beautiful, simple, fast, and stable on many computer hardware. -
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Provide secure and stable OS, based on highly modified Linux Kernel, own package system, like "BSD Ports". Compatible with x86, Power PC. Easy to use of any level users. Complete Documentantion in many languages. 99% compatible with Windows.
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Wmping is a simple usefull program that allows to check host status in your network environment. It can be used for monitoring servers in the network.
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UDPStressTest
A Desktop app for network stress testing, TCP-Ping and icmp ping.
Easy to use GUI app. *It reads your active and Up NIC and gets some info about it. * You can see your machine IP Address, gateway, subnet mask. * You can ping any ip address you want and get measure of TTL. * It gets the available range of IP's in your local network. * When you start the test you see testing throughput as a graph against time also total size of packet sent in (MB). *You can use it as DOS attack tool. *Every action done on the app is logged in XML file as data source (only stress test + ping). *TCP-Ping is a perfect way to discover network devices which active firewall to ignore ping packets or you can use it as TCP port scanner to check your network security. *Stress test speed graph can be exported as image easily. *Searching log files for certain data is also integrated to app. *Exporting search results as static HTML page. -
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FlickOS
Lightweight, Elegant and Sustainable Operating System
FlickOS is designed to be lightweight, fast and sustainable, with focus on efficient use of system resources. The project is based on Ubuntu 20.04 and LXLE, which provides a stable and well-supported foundation. Unnecessary packages and services are stripped away, leaving only the essential components needed to minimize resource usage. FlickOS have complete suite of applications like LibreOffice, Firefox, VLC and many essential software for daily use. Save the environment, recycle your old PCs and Flick it. Support If you are having trouble installing or have some suggestions, you can email me at dvbondoy@gmail.com. You may also join our Reddit community at r/flickos, I am always there to answer your questions. Create issues at https://github.com/dvbondoy/FlickOS/issues Download the ISO file, write it to flash-drive using Etcher and boot your computer to the USB. -
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QuickHotkeys - Move & Resize Windows
Move & Resize Windows easily, productivity tricks, Mouse Gestures, ...
Moving and resizing a window, with two mouse buttons. 🎦 Check out the YOTUBE channel about this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVkS_eTsfH-sEFw55o5UkRK7uMNIyICXb 🏅Every Windows user should have this tool. Install it and check all the cool features in action. ✅Moving a window in a straight line. ✅Going to the beginning and end of a page by turning the wheel. ✅Minimizing and maximizing windows with the wheel. ✅Quick copying and pasting. ✅Erasing all text on a line. ✅Moving the cursor to the beginning and end of a line ✅Sticking modifier keys for one second. 👈 ! Super cool stuff, check it out. Don't crooked your fingers when you press hotkeys anymore. ✅Remove the window title (👈 This way there's more room for content, the window without a header) ✅Setting transparency for windows ✅Fixing video files, where blocked rating, comment, and tags ✅ Change preview for video ✅ And more. -
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LXDE on Cygwin
LXDE on Cygwin in a Self Installing Package.
LXDE on Cygwin is your "swiss knife" for remote computing. In a Window$$ application, it provides loads of functions that are tailored for HPC users, webmasters, IT administrators and pretty much all users who need to handle their remote jobs in a more simple way. LXDE on Cygwin provides all the important remote network tools (SSH, PUTTY, X11, VNC, FTP,SFTP, MOSH, FILEZILLA ...) and Unix commands (bash, ls, cat, sed, grep, awk, rsync, python, git ...) to Windows desktop. The program was created mainly as an alternative to MobaXterm with the original purpose of connecting Window$$ computers directly to HPC clusters, to use X11 apps and not only. Of course you can use a beautiful LXDE desktop on your window PC and add Cygwin apps with apt-cyg command. -
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ReStartMe is a program that is designed to automate the task of making sure a process, or multiple processes, stays running. It will monitor processes you specify, and if they exit, ReStartMe will restart them for you!
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Proteus is complete new kind of taskbar which will soon completly replace the common windows taskbar. You can add different components which will add completly new functions and possibilities to your Proteus Taskbar.
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SLAX based LiveCD showcasing Sun Microsystem's open source project "Project Looking Glass 3D" (LG3D). Presented in 2004 LG3D combines a stunning 3D UI with the benefits of Java (easily expandable and reusable code, platform independency, etc.).
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PC Tools by Davis PC Mechanics
system diagnostics tool
PC Tools by Davis PC Mechanics is a tool used to perform some basic administrative tasks to help make thigs quicker by being all in one spot. Rather than a console application, i made an interface so you can quickly point and click. there is also a command line so you can type if you want to. some commands in the program require an elevated permission, before you open the program, use the "run as administrator" feature for full capibility -
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Provides battery,temperature,ac,cpufreq (SpeedStep,Powernow!) control and monitoring. Proper suspend to disk/ram and standby by shell hooks that are easy to extend. APM and ACPI machines are supported equally. For laptops as well as for workstations.
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The Wizard Desktop is a set of simple applications that maintain a common user experience along with a simple window manager. The underlying framework will allow a single-user multiple network connected computers paradigm. Communications between the framework and applications are standardized, programs can be swapped out at will. Please visit the OpenHub site.
