Questions tagged [linux]
Software to run on the Linux operating system.
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Linux distributions really centered on Plasma desktop? (not KDE "spins" or "flavors" & excepting Neon)
I am looking for a stable Linux - I mean stable not necessarily because based on stable releases like Ubuntu LTS, but because well supported by maintainers and community — one that would be focused on ...
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Cross-platform remote desktop with video streaming
I'm looking for a remote desktop software with the following features:
client cross-platform (Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 at least), the "server" (my side) should support at least Ubuntu 20....
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Digital light table for visually sorting/ordering image files before renaming them on Linux
Let me start by noting that this has already been answered for Windows at A program to sort and rename photos (drag & drop). I might go for that in the end, but I'm still wondering if there's ...
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Looking for an OAI-PMH provider for OCFL
I am looking for an OAI-PMH¹ provider working on the standardised Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL). It should run under Linux and it should be able to deliver two kinds of Metadata, besides the ...
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Recommended portable C solution under Windows
I would like to set-up the most appropriate C development environment under Windows, with the scope of having the least painful issues concering code portability to Linux.
In the past I have both used ...
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MIDI file player like aplaymidi on Linux (MIDI output, no audio), with more interactive features
I'm looking for an application on Linux who can read MIDI files and play them to a MIDI channel (ALSA or JACK).
aplaymidi does this well, but I need additional features:
Hot reloading when the file ...
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Open source tool to read batch CSV files and output parameter results?
I am looking for a tool that could scan batch csv files and ensure that all preset parameters are accurately reflected in the output file. Essentially, scan batch CSV files, ensure the preset ...
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File sharing websoftware for linux
I want to host a small file sharing site for my friends to quickly share pictures/files/documents etc.
The simply way I can imagine this, is when visiting the website on my server, you get asked for a ...
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Is there any program for Linux to layout and generate directory structure?
I need to generate folder structure for organizing my $HOME folder. Of course, I can write big shell script with mkdir -p on every line but maybe there are more user-friendly solution for creating ...
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Compare a text file to multiple text files
Is there a tool that runs on linux (preferably GUI) that can compare a text file to any number of other text files? I currently use meld and it works great for up to 3 files. I am looking for ...
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PDF reader for very large single page PDFs on Linux
TOCs AS v48 May 2021.pdf is a map of the UK rail network showing every station. It is a single page with a nominal size of about 2.4 meters wide and 3.4 meters high.
In Acrobat Reader/Adobe Reader it ...
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Verify EU Digital COVID Certificate from Linux (without a smartphone)
I will soon need to verify some EU Digital COVID Certificates.
I have a Linux machine (Ubuntu 21/04) with a webcam, which should be all the technology needed for this.
However, all the software I can ...
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Easy Linux photo editing software
Please recommend an easy Linux photo edit software for a person who is new in Linux. She is a real estate worker and takes photos of interiors. She has to crop them, rotate, and shrink to 1000 KB or ...
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Software for algebraic computation with geometric objects?
Recently I started to get interested in the a certain kind of geometry, where a body is described based on a set of functions, which are based on irrational numbers.
For example consider this cuboid:
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Copy files from one location to many on Linux
I have six 12TB USB 3.0 hard drives connected to a RHEL 8 box. One of them is full of files, the others empty. Is there a software package that will read the files from the full one once and write ...
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Real-time whiteboard synchroniser between Android and Desktop
As COVID-19 forced millions to set up their home office, I still feel the absence of a simple whiteboard is one of the biggest barriers in Zoom, Team or Slack... whatever name you.
So I wondered if ...
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Set a timed reminder from the terminal
How can I issue a shell command in my terminal that will alert me with a notification once a given time has passed?
To make it a bit more specific, some things I am looking for are:
I only need one ...
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Linux command line tools to create videos from text
Which Linux command line tool(s) can be used to create videos from text?
ffmpeg can be used to make videos from images but can it be used to make videos only from text?
I have used ffmpeg for cutting ...
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Python library to determine the input device (keyboard) used
I have a problem about determining the keyboards. Let me explain what I want.
I have a Linux Single Board Computer which has two connected keyboards(readers). Let's say one of them is keyboard_one and ...
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General metadata crowd sourcing
There is a program I use that let's you organize content and saves the metadata in a sqlite database.
I'd like to know if there is any open source program for linux that let's people crowd source the ...
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linux screencapture/screencasting application that can cope with switching desktop managers
Hi I want to record videos (about going back to linux) and specifically I want to try the OS with the different desktop envs Gnome/LWDM/Plasma etc.so want to be able to record my screen whist I either ...
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Store information about supplier's products
I work for a small company. We regularly have discussions with our suppliers, in which they send us information and documents about their products. This information comes in various formats (text in e-...
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Replacement for Apache Sqoop?
Sqoop is retired
What is a good alternative to Sqoop for regular bulk loads to HDFS from a SQL DBMS (Postgres and SQL Server)? I'd like support for splitting across multiple nodes, updating the Hive ...
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Video Call software with redirection / routing
Is there a video call software on linux that I can use in the following manner :
User A calls User B. User B has a specific userID / number / Identifier / ... that User A uses.
The software in User B '...
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looking for a good Linux program for hindi speech to text
I'm looking for a Hindi transcription tool in Linux. It should be able to accept audio files and give textual output. For English, VOSK is pretty good since it recognizes both Indian and US English. ...
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What Operating System Provides Easy and Complete Software Uninstallation?
I want to be able to easily and completely remove a program/package and everything associated with it: all dependencies, all configuration files, all data files, and all traces in logs and $HOME (I ...
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CLI-based Disk Speed Checking Utility for Linux
I'm looking for a tool that can check SSD speed from the CLI on Ubuntu 20.04. I've already checked out kdiskmark but it won't run without a GUI.
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Linux sandbox that shows which files have been created/modified
I use Gentoo Linux.
I need to find out what the program running under root downloads and where it puts the downloaded files.
I would also like to have a sandbox for testing programs from unreliable ...
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I want to deduce recipes from commercial food packaging
I happen to have a jar of curry paste with these ingredients.
...and this nutrition:
In the UK, ingredients have to be listed in order of weight. So at a glance I know, for example that (per 100g):
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Is there a way to remove trailing spaces and convert tabs to spaces in a lot of files at once using command-line?
I am using cygwin and have a lot of files in which I want to convert tabs to spaces (four spaces per tab) and remove all space characters that exist at end of line. Is there a utility for this in ...
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Android recipe manager + linux server?
I have a growing number of (cooking) recipes on my Linux system, and it would be handy if I could sync them with my mobile. I have tried several from Google Play, but they are riddled with adverts and ...
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Linux desktop software to create photo albums
I am wanting to design a photo album/photo book, in which I put together different photos, some text, etc. and this become a multi-page document that I would like to bring to a print shop (so export ...
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Linux backup and replication software
I'm looking for software that runs on Linux that can back up my important files. I'm not really talking about system-level backups, since I can always reinstall the operating system. I use Fedora, and ...
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Installanywhere for linux distributions
I need to know whether the Installanywhere software is available free for linux distributions. I was able to find windows installable versions from internet, but couldn't find for linux. Can someone ...
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What Linux application helps display frequently updating text or images on-scrreen?
I need to setup my desktop in a very particular way, for use during lectures:
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| 5 minutes 3 seconds left 12:48 pm | <-- a top bar displaying ...
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Tool for dynamically plotting and viewing many complex functions
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I'm searching for a tool or a programming library that can plot many complex functions (Examples below) as created-on-the-fly interactive graph. So kind of how game rendering works: There ...
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Ransomware detection software on Ubuntu Linux
I'm looking for a software that runs in the background and finds out if in specific directories an abnormal amount of files have been changed.
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Brightness adjuster to make cycling between dark and bright windows bearable?
Problem description
Most of the time my workflow consists in a black window (terminal or text-editor) and a white one (web browser), so any brightness level is either too dim for the dark windows or ...
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Software or Python library to sync several audio files with each other
I have around 240 audio files (aiff) that start at a different millisecond. I need to make all of them start at the same millisecond. Lets say I need it all the audios to start at 0.005. How can I do ...
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Does anybody know of some data visualization packages for the Linux command line/terminal?
I am new to Linux and am also beginning to learn data science. I am playing around with Termgraph which is a package used with Python to visualize very simple bar charts in the command line. I am ...
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what is an offline transcription or dictation app which respects privacy?
Looking at software to transcribe or dictate mp3 files, what are the open source options which run on Linux?
Looking for something which at least purports to not upload either the audio file or the ...
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Is there a WordStar clone for Linux?
I am setting up a computer to serve as a single-purpose, distraction-free word processor. Since my writing needs are very simple, a curses-based application like WordStar (a really old word processor ...
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Android Emulator for development without Android Studio
I need to test apps against specific versions of Android for development purposes and am looking for an emulator to do that. Here are the requirements:
Must be 100% FOSS
Must work on x86_64 Linux
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Mass HTML grabbing tool
I recently found httpx and I love it. However, there isn't an option to grab HTML from the sites/IPs I input. Is there a tool that can grab HTML from a long list of websites in a really short amount ...
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Linux Clipboard Manager that allows push _and_ pop
Clipboard managers obviously allow users to "push" snippets onto a stack. The problem is that to paste them we usually have to go to a menu and choose which one we want. Often, I need to ...
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GUI app for converting floating point to binary
Is there any desktop app for ubuntu that do floating point conversion to binary?
I've tried gnome calculator and I can't find the feature even in programming mode.
The closest I've found is this page. ...
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Graphical difftool for Linux that supports word wrap/line break
Using Ubuntu Linux 20.04 I would like to use a graphical diff tool (like Meld, Kdiff3, Kompare, etc.) that supports automatic line breaks. What I mean by that is that I would like to see the entire ...
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What tool can I use to automatically break long lines of PHP code?
I'm rewriting a lot of old PHP code at my work and we have decided to enforce the PSR12 standard. I find myself wasting a ton of time breaking long lines of code to comply with the 120 characters hard ...
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Font measurements visualizer
There are a few utilities for showcasing fonts/font families from a file in a Window. Windows has something like this (I forget the name); and on Linux you have gnome-font-view and perhaps something ...
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Creating ebooks from the terminal in Linux
I'm looking for something that would let me create ebooks containing high-resolution pictures from the command-line.
The reason I'm looking for cli is so the process can be scripted.
EDIT: The goal is ...
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