Questions tagged [linux]
Software to run on the Linux operating system.
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Which OS is the best for development of `.rpm` packages?
Which OS is the best for development of .rpm packages?
I run Ubuntu and am going to spawn VirtualBox with an .rpm-based OS to produce RPMs.
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Desktop Sharing to work from another computer
Context: I have my personal laptop and my work laptop (both Linux) but I'm tired of the hassle of plugging cables whenever I'm going to use one or the other. So, I want LAN access to my work laptop i....
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Linux software protection tools
I am looking for tools that can protect Linux software, as below:
Make the reverse engineering of the software difficult so that the hacker cannot get the algorithm from it easily.
Prevent the ...
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Is there a Linux tool for creating a DataURI of a given file?
How can I easily obtain the DataURI of a file in a terminal-based environment? The tool should be installable via apt-get and feature simple syntax. Could you suggest some suitable options? Thank you ...
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Lightweight web interface for Git that can browse files and make commits
I am looking for a lightweight open source web interface for Git repositories that I can self-host on Debian or Ubuntu Linux. The web interface should be able to list, view, and edit text files in Git ...
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do you know some volunteer computing framework, library, API, licensed under GPL or at least copyleft?
some licenses I have found for it would betray the "by and for" principle I would like to have on my project.
What I am intending with it is to have an open distributed system, however ...
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Image Processing program with Batch and interactive manual editing mode combined
The overall task is to generate images for charaktertokens in Virtual Tabletop Software (Roll20 in my case)
I have existing Artwork (mostly Fullbody) for Characters, Monster etc that needs to be ...
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Automatic generation of iOS app logos (Asset Catalog Assets.xcassets)
I regularly need to generate the Assets.xcassets folder which contains an AppIcon.appiconset folder with a Contents.json and multiple (png) image files. Those files are App icons for iOS.
I'm ...
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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
I'm looking for a gratis text editor for Linux that supports column manipulations/selection like the Notepad++ text editor for Windows allows.
Specifically, I want to be able to:
Quickly and easily ...
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Is there grsecurity (or alternatives) for the public?
grsecurity is a nice security/hardening project. But it seems they do not offer the product for personal use, this is what have got from them:
We appreciate your interest in grsecurity. Unfortunately,...
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Deep-learning gratis TTS for English on Desktop (Linux)
I've recently had a hiking accident in which one eye got damaged. Hopefully I can fully recover, but until then reading longer texts is very exhausting to me. So I'm looking for a text-to-speech (TTS) ...
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linux ebook reader which can save annotations *in* epub files
According to Wikipedia:
The EPUB 3.0 format was intended to address [...] its lack of a specification for annotation
The EPUB 3.0 specification having been approved in 2011, an optimistic reading ...
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Is there a Linux distro creator that can create a proper Linux distro
Is there a software for creating custom Ubuntu distros? Like CUBIC but I don't want a
customized Live ISO image.
Instead I want a software that could create ISOs that can be used to save data for ...
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Allocation lifespan tracking tool for C++ programs
Suppose you're working on a C++ program which allocates multiple large buffers at different points in time. Suppose also this allocation doesn't necessary happen by kernel sbrk-like calls, but also ...
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Split the Linux terminal into to two
I just want a terminal based package that could be installed with sudo apt-get install packagename that should split my terminal into two sessions. I'm using WSL2 in Windows 11. Any help will be ...
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Linux audio software to make old-time radio more understandable
I love listening to old time radio (OTR) broadcasts collected from the internet. The sound quality is often distorted so as to be not-comprehensible. I listen on pretty modern LG TV (using internal ...
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Find-in-files GUI utility meeting certain requirements
Looking for a find-in-files utility that is:
a GUI program
for Linux
using direct search (not based on index)
allows me to specify inclusion/exclusion rules: search in these directories but NOT in ...
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Simple(-ish), OSS inventory management/assembly for Linux?
I'm looking for something similar to what this guy is looking for, but for Linux, and hosted on an application server (Tomcat, ... - doesn't have to be JavaEE).
We build a lot of equipment for in-...
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MKV analytical tool to batch-process home movies library
I'd like to batch-process my home movies library (99% MKV files) and extract following data out of MKV metadata:
List of all languages supported via subtitles for each image
List of audio streams (...
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Similar to coLinux/Wine to run Linux apps on Windows 64-bit, without bloated and slowly VM?
I would like to be able to run Linux programs (CLI, maybe GUI) in Windows 10 64-bit, and bonus would be nice to work in the Linux system itself (create files and folders, shell scripts). I used to do ...
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Linux distro for cloning Windows SSDs, to run from a pendrive
I will have to back up a few SSDs to the cloud, and clone my Windows installation from one SSD to another. What's the easiest Linux distribution to do so? I could use dd on pretty much any ...
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Alternatives to Notepad++ with restoring previous session feature
I've been using Notepad++ for a long time as a quick note taking app. The "feature" I most use is the ability to have multiple tabs opened with text that I typed and the ability to close the ...
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Word separation sensitive text replacement CLI tool
I am looking for a Linux command-line utility that can do text replacement (think sed or sd) and is able to automatically extend your search-and-replace pattern to strings that have different word ...
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Free software to visualize streamed audio and video timestamps, keyframes etc. to identify cause of audio video sync issues?
Purpose: I store a streamed meeting video on disk. I need to analyze the video to see which parts have an audio-video lag and also need to see other details of the video like codec, keyframes or any ...
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Utility for exploring the Unicode block coverage of a font file
I'm looking at a bunch of font files, and I want to know how well they cover different blocks of the Unicode (basic multilingual) plane. Naturally I can do this manually with something like Windows' ...
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Meta QA progam: posting the same question on several QA websites
I am looking for a program for Microsoft Windows, Linux or web service that can allow the user to post the same question at once on several QA websites such as Stack Exchange, Quora, Reddit, or Yahoo! ...
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Linux app for network mapping
I'm looking for Linux application to map and monitor network topology. I only need to monitor the operation of switches and routers.
Maybe there is something similar to Network Notepad (Interactive ...
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Linux file browser with custom toolbar buttons with custom commands/actions?
Is there a file browser (preferably for debian) with customizabile toolbar(s) to which you can add buttons (with custom icons) with assignable custom actions? Something like QTTabBar for windows file ...
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Command line utility for changing RAW file exposure
I'm looking for Linux software that allows tuning the exposure of the RAW image. I want to make an "auto HDR" script that would change the exposure of the photo automatically and then ...
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EBICS commandline client to fetch transactions and save as MT940 and camt.053
I'm looking for a software to store/convert bank transactions as MT940 and camt.053. (command line as it needs to be run by cron). I have a working AqBanking-Setup that does fetch transactions just ...
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GUI Sync over ftp software for Linux (Ubuntu)
I am developing a web site, it uses php and an sql database. I program on my local test machine (laptop with Ubuntu) and send the files over ftp to a website when each task* is done. (*bug fix, ...
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Linear equation solver under WSL-2
I need to solve a linear equation Ax = b with A a pentadiagonal matrix (lots of 0) whose dimension is very big (until n = 1000 billion).
I'm currently using the UMFPACK package from Suitesparse in C (...
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Wine-like MS-DOS runner for Linux?
For running Win32 applications, there's wine - a wrapper which translates Windows API calls into Linux ones.
Then there's DOSBox, which completely emulates a DOS-era PC incl. graphics. However the ...
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What software to use for online screening of candidates?
I wanted to conduct online screening of candidates for interview purpose and the type of questions include:
Multiple choice questions
Coding Questions
Fill in the blanks
Questions required to be ...
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Software for autocompletetion (bash/zsh) using IA
Is there any software for autocompletion in the console (bash, zsh) that uses some AI?
I know how to autocomplete in bash and zsh (autoload, compgen, etc), but I want something more "smart", ...
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I'm looking for tool which diagnose server slowness issue in linux?
I'm really looking for tools in Linux that can store and analyze logs in the long term.
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Font viewer which can preview sample text?
I'm looking for something quite particular, which I am unsure exists.
I want a font installer/uninstaller and previewer that I can use to tag and sort fonts, so that they're easier to find when I need ...
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Linux alternative to Microsoft PowerToys' Fancy Zones
Power Toys is an open source toolbox that contains a lot of very useful tools for Windows 10+ and I use it on a daily basis at work. One of them though I really wish I could use in my personal system, ...
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Command line tool to check whether two images have different pixel sizes
I need a command line tool that compares 2 images with identical names but from different folders and says if their pixel sizes are the same. It should go through all images and then outputs the list ...
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Which Linux Distro on Azure for .Net Core?
Which Linux distro would you recommend for .Net Core on Azure? This is a server-side line of business use case rather than for development. I know it technically shouldn’t matter but taking into ...
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Raw PDF structure viewer
I want to view the contents of a PDF file - but not so much in the sense of rendering the pages in it. Rather, I want to see the hierarchy of objects, the PDF-structural tags and fields like the ...
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looking for c++ library/tool for making a window and manipulating individual pixels through coordinates
I am trying to find a c++ library/tool that will let me make a window and change pixel colors (preferably just from black to white), using coordinates, I have been looking, but ended up just going in ...
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An application to run on the linux server to check the structure and permissions, periodically
There are many sites out there that will check your website from the browser end. I sometimes forget to set file or folder permissions correctly on the Linux end.
I am looking for something that
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Is there a programming language that is just math?
I am looking for a language that would allow me to do the following
let me write code in math notation (sort of)
allow me to read and write memory
write to stdin, stdout, and stderr
I am running ...
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Cloud-based remote desktop application with command prompt / SSH
I'm looking for a Cloud-based remote desktop software that allows to make a "command prompt" connection or, even better, via SSH.
Zoho Assist does this but it is full of bugs.
Basically, the ...
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Server Node Resource Monitoring tool with REST/RPC Api for Linux (RHEL and Ubuntu)
I need a system resource monitoring tool for Linux, which allows for accessing the information via either a REST or RPC API.
The information need is:
CPU usage
it is preferable if this can be seen ...
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low-level UI library that allows custom text selection mechanics
I need a GUI or TUI library for linux, that can be used from C, C++ or Python. The library shouldn't give me a repertoir of widgets, but instead allow me to build my own from scratch. I need a ...
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A linux tool to easily access program "cheat sheets"
Most linux apps and even basic linux system commands like, awk, grep, sed, etc have "cheat sheets". These sheets give common usage examples of the software on one page. A means to ...
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A tool to edit .dynsym symbols in ELF files
objcopy(1) can edit .symtab (among many other things), but not .dynsym.
elfedit(1) can modify small amount of header values
patchelf(1) can modify other dynamic information (interpreter, libraries, ...
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Use Raspberry Pi as Ethernet-to-HDMI converter
My laptop (running on Windows 11) has a HDMI port which is used to extend my desktop with a screen (as you would). I have another screen lying around and I would like to make it a third screen for my ...
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