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WhyTheName - Debian Wiki edit / delete

"An IT-etymology/linuxguistics page for people wondering "how come the package yasysmand-cling has such a strange name?""

to debian naming open-source software ... on 14 October 2016

Praxis LIVE edit / delete

Processing-style live coding environment. This'd be a fun tool to use for teaching CMP103...

to graphics live-coding programming software teaching ... on 14 October 2016

simonyiszk/csdr: A simple DSP library and command-line tool for Software Defined Radio. edit / delete

SDR pipeline tools for Unix. The author's done various neat stuff involving FM subcarriers with this.

to dsp fm radio sdr software unix ... on 11 October 2016

diffoscope: in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories edit / delete

"diffoscope will try to get to the bottom of what makes files or directories different. It will recursively unpack archives of many kinds and transform various binary formats into more human readable form to compare them."

to diff reverse-engineering software ... on 15 September 2016

The Antic Cyber Graphics Software - Home edit / delete

"This Web site documents some moderately obscure computer graphics software history: a suite of animation products produced in the late 1980’s for the Atari ST personal computer platform." Cyber Paint and friends.

to atari graphics retrocomputing software st ... on 27 August 2016

Port of em to modern OS edit / delete

em being the Editor for Mortals, which added one-line editing to ed. The story I was told by Bob Eager (?) was that they installed this at Kent, but found fairly quickly that people tended to typo the name as "rm"...

to ed editor em retrocomputing software unix ... on 21 June 2016

pdfsandwich edit / delete

"pdfsandwich generates "sandwich" OCR pdf files, i.e. pdf files which contain only images (no text) will be processed by optical character recognition (OCR) and the text will be added to each page invisibly "behind" the images." Based on tesseract and unpaper.

to ocr pdf software ... on 21 June 2016

OpenBMC edit / delete

"OpenBMC is an open software framework to build a complete Linux image for a Board Management Controller (BMC)."

to bmc firmware linux software ... on 21 June 2016

Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 edit / delete

An excellent specification of the approach to version numbering used by many free software projects.

to release software software-engineering version ... on 21 June 2016

Hack 1.0.3 edit / delete

The game that became NetHack. A surprising amount of it was already there in 1985!

to games hack nethack retrocomputing roguelike software ... on 21 June 2016