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There are various:
easytag has a lot of options
kid3 if you're on a Qt/KDE environment
id3v2 or eyeD3 for the command line
Generally music players can also edit common tags, f.e. banshee, rhythmbox or amarok
and a lot others, try searching your distributions repository and test some of them.
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If you are willing to go outside your comfort zone, LaTeX Beamer is really the only thing I have found that can match Keynote's output for Linux.
Ease of use is a problem with LaTeX though, look at LyX for a nice editor, and some examples.
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Inkscape is today the de facto standard. In earlier times, people used xfig and I still love it, however it isn't for the faint of heart as the user interface is disturbingly ugly and unusual (but highly efficient once you got to know it). Then there is also dia which is modeled a bit after xfig but with a normal Gtk GUI.
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I use pdftk mainly. But here are some others to consider:
pdfsam (PDF Split and Merge): "pdfsam is an open source tool (GPL license) designed to handle pdf files"
PDFJam "A small collection of shell scripts which provide a simple interface to much of the functionality of the excellent pdfpages PDF file package (by Andreas Matthias) for pdfLaTeX." (You can ...
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SQLite's small size and levels of completeness, stability & speed make it a popular choice for low-resource environments, which embedded systems usually are. It is used by parts of the current iPhone, Android and Symbian phone operating systems for this reason.
You might want to add some details to your question to get more specific answers: do you know ...
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"Complicated to configure" varies greatly depending on what languages you're proficient in. XMonad was extraordinarily complicated for me to configure, but that was because I know absolutely no Haskell, and that's the language the configurations are in.
The two tiling window managers I've used and quite liked are:
Awesome. Awesome configurations are in ...
10
I know two programs for manipulating PDFs under Linux:
PDEedit "Pdf Editor is primary created for simple editation and manipulation with objects of documents in PDF format and storing them as new version of document. Editation and manipulation with objets is by graphical and by commandline interface too. For simple use command line is using script language, ...
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ImageMagick comes with the import utility to take screenshots. It has tons of options, but by default it lets you draw a rectangle on the screen and saves just that portion. If you want an entire window you can use -window ID; the identifier "root" captures the entire screen
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I use conky to display date, battery, cpu, ram and swap information. You can find my conky file here or take a look at a thread about conky configs in the arch-linux forum. There you find many different configs and screenshots of conky in use.
9
R is better at this sort of thing because:
It's a complete programming environment, with C and Fortran-compatible extension APIs, so there is literally nothing you can't make it do.
Many have already contributed their solutions to common problems to the CRAN: Comprehensive R Archive Network.
There are many books on time series analysis and R in general.
...
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There's a Arch Linux wiki entry comparing 13 different Tiling Window Managers, in grid-like fashion, here on the Arch Linux Wiki. Perhaps it would be hepful.
I haven't tried any of them yet, personally, but plan to in the near future when I have some time, so I'm following this thread closely as well.
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BDB (libdb) has historically been the embedded database of choice for many applications, shipping with most UNIXes and used by lots of software. If you're accustomed to SQL relational databases, though, BDB is not one - it is simply a (really good) key-value store.
SQLite is a different popular embedded database. As the name implies, it is a SQL database ...
8
Sounds like a job for Perl with Text::CSV.
perl -MText::CSV -pe '
BEGIN {$csv = Text::CSV->new();}
$csv->parse($_) or die;
@fields = $csv->fields();
print @fields[1,3];
'
See the documentation for how to handle column names. The separator and quoting style can be tuned with parameters to new. See also Text::CSV::Separator for ...
8
The euphoniously named scrot takes screenshots from the command line...
It has a couple of simple options, including a time delay and image quality.
If you are wanting to take a shot in the console, and you are running a framebuffer, then you can use fbgrab.
7
You should have a look at the FFmpeg project.
From the project description:
"FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform
solution to record, convert and stream
audio and video. It includes
libavcodec - the leading audio/video
codec library."
It is likely already installed on your system because a lot of media players depend on the libavcodec library.
...
7
I'd like to recommend two different tiling window managers, one dynamic and one manual.
XMonad is very powerful yet easy to learn, there is a short guided tour that explains its basic features and key bindings. It integrates smoothly with GNOME, the documentation is comprehensive and there are lots of additional extensions available. It supports the ...
7
I find myself using DownThemAll (was "downthemall") for my downloads. It's a Firefox plugin and thus available everywhere (a very important reason why I chose it). You can
download all links / media in a page
download each item with up to 10 connections
and yes, you can download Facebook videos
7
As a Blogger user who has been repeatedly burned by Blogger's web editor, I find myself using Tomboy to draft my blogs, and then I use the Tomboy Blogposter add-in to upload the blog as a draft, and make any necessary tweaks. This is nice because I'm already a heavy Tomboy user so drafting blog posts in a Tomboy note feels natural. Also, the add-in works ...
7
Kivio, as the name kinda implies, is KDE's competitor to Visio. It is a part of the KOffice suite.
Note: KOffice, as well as some of its applications were recently renamed. KOffice is now called Calligra Suite and Kivio is called Calligra Flow. However, there has not yet been a release since the rename.
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It depends on the precise functionality of find that you are relying on. If it is (principally) the finding functionality, some shells support recursive globs. E.g., with zsh:
% find . -name \*c
./a/b/foo.c
./a/bar.c
./baz.c
inoshiro% ls *.c
baz.c
% ls **/*.c
a/bar.c a/b/foo.c baz.c
Zsh has a lot more find-like possibilities through glob qualifiers ...
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This is a common misconception.
Find follows the options syntax. You're just confusing expression primaries with options:
find [-H | -L | -P] [-EXdsx] [-f path] path ... [expression]
[cmd][--> options <--] [--> arg0..argN <--]
The alternative is locate. But find implements it's own expression syntax because it provides a ...
7
I would take a look at locate. It will look through its database of files and quickly print out path names that match what you give.
kevin@box:~$ locate odg
/home/kevin/Documents/final.odg
/usr/share/doc/packages/sysconfig/netconfig.odg
/usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/en/gimp-tool-dodge-burn.html
....
kevin@box:~$ locate .odg
/home/kevin/Documents/final.odg
...
7
There are many text web browsers, as there are many graphical web browsers, so it really depends on what you're looking for. lynx is a common slim choice, Elinks has many features. Both of these support other protocols, such as ftp and gopher (Elinks even supports bittorrent). Elinks may also be built with support for JavaScript, using Mozilla's former ...
6
The most complete is by far MS Office in a virtual machine: this is what I do.
If you will again be distributing those files you edited, it's pretty much necessary to use MS Office, because anything else can have unpredictable effects on the document.
If it is for your own use, OpenOffice (or LibreOffice or Go-oo, etc) is just about as good as MS Office ...
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Not currently, though there was an interest to improve Exchange support I think it stalled due to lack of involvement. The only similar tool I know of is getmail and doesn't natively support Exchange either.
The only solution I know of is DavMail, which provides a standard POP/IMAP/SMTP interface to Exchange. You should be able to use that in conjunction ...
6
You can get something along these lines via the Thunderbird Conversations addon. I haven't used it recently but when I did (a year or two ago) it was usable, though not quite as smooth as gmail itself. It is being actively developed, so it has likely improved since then. Reviews seem to be mostly positive, though it may not work with all versions of ...
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You can make presentations with LyX and the beamer class. LyX is a semi-wysiwyg document editor that uses LaTeX as its document format. LyX produces PDF output which you then present in the PDF viewer of your choice. This meets your compulsory requirements; I don't know about animations, you don't stand a chance of Powerpoint import/export, and there are ...
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My first suggestion would be Maxima, but it seems I'm out of date. Wikipedia lists several:
Axiom, Cadabra, CoCoA, DoCon, Eigenmath, FriCAS, GAP, GiNaC, Macaulay2, Mathomatic, Maxima, OpenAxiom, PARI/GP, Reduce, Sage, SINGULAR, SymPy, Xcas
It also has a comparison of computer algebra systems.
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There is plenty of calendar software for Linux. Depending of your needs and desktop environment that you use you can choose from:
KOrganizer from KDE,
Evolution if you prefer GNOME,
Mozilla Thunderbird with Sunbird addon if you want to be multiplatfrom,
Remind for console users,
and M-x calendar and ~/.diary if you are Emacs user... ;)
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I know how you feel; I tried so many different distros before getting a feel for the differences, and I continue to try new ones, usually in a virtual machine or a spare partition.
I don't really find Gnome to be slow and bloated, but I'm not too happy with the direction it's gone recently with the Gnome 3 shell. Gnome is fairly simple compared to KDE, but ...
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