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PeaZip – Crossplatform File Archiver Manager in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 16th June 2009

PeaZip is a free flexible opensource File and Archive Manager for Linux and Windows. PeaZip can create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, ZIP archives and can extract upto 87 types of archive including all the mainstream popular archive formats.

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Conky – Lightweight system monitor in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 10th May 2009

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. Conky has more than 250 built in objects, including support for a plethora of OS stats (uname, uptime, CPU usage, mem usage, disk usage, “top” like process stats, and network monitoring, built in support for IMAP and POP3 and many popular music players (MPD, XMMS2, BMPx, Audacious).

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BleachBit to cleanup unwanted files on your openSUSE

Posted by admin on 16th April 2009

BleachBit is a simple cool utility to delete unnecessary files on the systemt to free disk space. This includes application and browser cache, temporary fiiles and cookies. Among the many supported application files are Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, firefox, Adobe flash, java, KDE, openoffice,Opera, XChat, rpmbuild etc. While, DIsk space may not be an issue these days on most of the systems, it is always cool clear those items not required anymore on the system.

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xclip – Copy contents from command line to X clipboard in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 13th April 2009

xclip is a command line interface to the X11 selections (X11 clipboard). It can also be used for copying files, as an alternative to sftp/scp, thus avoiding password prompts when X11 forwarding has already been setup. xclip reads from Standard Input or from one or more files and copy it to the X11 clipboard making it available to the X applications. xclip can also print the content of the current X clipboard onto the standard output or to a file.

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TuxCards – hierarchical notebook for your notes making in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 15th February 2009

Tuxcards is a free opensource notebook for Linux inspired by CueCards for Windows. TuxCards is a hierarchical notebook ideally for those who got used to their post-its, pieces of paper with useful information and ideas or even use digital form of these and then loose plot of what they are making note of…

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