Recommended Applications/System Utilities

From Shift Linux
Name Producer Website Recommended By
Conky 0 Official Website DGMurdockIII
Description: Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and runs on Linux and BSD.
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Gjiten 0 Official Website deniseweird
Description: Gjiten is a Japanese dictionary program for GNOME. Gjiten also has a kanji dictionary. Any combination of stroke count, radicals and search key can be used for kanji lookups. A simple Input Method, wich works in all applications, along with a simple graphical tool to enable/disable it in all applications regardless of session. This is very important for me in order to be able to type in Japanese and Korean.
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Lineak 0 Official Website DGMurdockIII
Description: Linux support for Easy Access and Internet Keyboards
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NTFS-3G 0 Official Website RoadGeek9
Description: The NTFS-3G driver is a both freely and commercially available and supported read/write NTFS driver for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, NetBSD, Solaris, Haiku, and other operating systems. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows Vista file systems. POSIX file system operations are supported, and full file ownership and permission support is available as well.
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PhotoRec 0 Official Website DGMurdockIII
Description: PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its 'Photo Recovery' name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.
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Sbackup 0 Official Website DGMurdockIII
Description: SBackup is a Simple Backup solution for Linux. It is generally developed with a Gnome desktop in mind, but will also work in other desktop environments and also on the console.
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Gnome control center chanders Official Website DGMurdockIII
Description: sudo apt-get install gnome-control-center
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