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Featured Desktop applications used in Demi Sized Linux
Browser: Dillo
  • completely written in C.
  • small: source is less than 365 KB, and the binary is around 300 KB!
  • Dillo is mainly based on GTK+ (GNOME is NOT required!)
  • Dillo is very fast!
The Dillo browser in Demi Sized has been enhanced, it supports SSL, tabs and frames!
Paches by Andreas Kemnade and Frank de Lange.

Browser: Links Hacker
This browser is a greatly enhanced version of links that weighs in at 1/9th the size of Mozilla yet can handle SSL, js, frames, and cookies, copy and paste, and HTTP Authentication. It is a fantastic browser for old and low power systems.

Word Processor: Ted-gtk NEW
Ted, an easy rich text processor

Ted is a text processor running under X Windows on Unix/Linux systems. Ted was developed as a standard easy word processor, having the role of Wordpad on MS-Windows. Since then, Ted has evolved to a real word processor that still has the same easy appearance as the original. The possibility to type a letter, a note or a report on a Unix/Linux machine is clearly missing. Only too often, you have to turn to MS-Windows machine to write a letter or a document. Ted was made to make it possible to edit rich text documents on Unix/Linux in a wysiwyg way. RTF files from Ted are fully compatible with MS-Word. Additionally, Ted also is an RTF to PostScript and an RTF to Acrobat PDF converter.


Email: Sylpheed
Sylpheed is an e-mail client and news reader based on GTK+ and running on X Window System.
    Sylpheed is developed aiming for the following things
  • Quick response
  • Simple, graceful, and well-polished interface
  • Easy configuration
  • Intuitive operation
  • Abundant features
Sylpheed is a great email program, I use it as my primary desktop client.

Picture Viewer: Xzgv
Xzgv is a picture viewer for X, with a thumbnail-based file selector. It uses GTK+ and Imlib. Most file formats are supported, and the thumbnails used are compatible with xv, zgv, and the Gimp.

Image Editing: Xpaint
Xpaint is a color image editing tool which features most standard paint program options. It allows for the editing of multiple images simultaneously and supports various formats, including PPM, XBM, TIFF, etc.

Xpaint seems to get less notoriety these days because of the enormous capabilities of The GIMP; yet, Xpaint is very capable, and will serve well for general image editing. It also is a very tight program which makes it perfect fit for Demi Sized.

File Manager: emelFM

emelFM is a file manager that implements the popular two-pane design. It features a simple GTK+ interface, a flexible filetyping scheme, and a built-in command line for executing commands without opening an xterm.

Features

  • Simple Interface
  • Bookmarks and History Lists
  • Flexible filetyping scheme
  • Multiple actions selectable for each filetype
  • Filename, Size, and Date Filters
  • Built-In Command Line
  • User-defined menu
  • Configurable Keyboard bindings
  • Configurable Toolbar
  • Runtime loadable plugins

Window Manager: FluxBox
Fluxbox is based on the famous BlackBox, but with some really nice enhancements -- I believe there is no more work efficient window manager in existence. Learn how to use the tabs, after a while you will be hooked. Unfortunately, the Xvesa server dose not recognize mouse wheels, which makes using Fluxbox that much more enjoyable.

Instant Messaging Naim
Naim is the best terminal based AOL client I could find. I tried out several.
It can also do Lily and IRC.

GUI Text Editor: Nedit
Features:
  • True multi-window, fully graphical design
  • Mouse based editing
  • Cut and Paste with other X Windows/Motif programs
  • Secondary, quick-action, selections
  • Rectangular selection mode
  • Easy to learn
  • Just point and type
  • Capabilities are presented clearly in top level menus
  • Comprehensive on-line help
  • No special knowledge of X Windows required, all important options
    • can be set from within the program
  • Features for programmers
  • Auto-indent
  • Block indentation adjustment
  • Parenthesis flashing and matching
  • Find lines directly from compiler error output
  • Emulated tabs
  • Unix ctags support
  • Client/Server mode for integration with software development tools

    • Spreadsheet: ABS
    Abs is powerful and easy to use -- it is perfect for older systems, or a live-CD will a limited amount of space. It weighs in at less than 1/10th the size of OpenOffice :-)...
      Features :
    • abs is a stand alone state of the art spreadsheet designed to run on any UNIX platform.
    • abs comes with the ABVisual macro language (compatible with Microsoft Visual Basic).
    • abs can exchange data with Microsoft Excel through Visual Basic. All data, formats, drawings, controls and charts are exportable to Microsoft Excel.
    • abs is distributed with source code under General Public License.
    • abs is under development but already stable enough to be used.
    PDF: Xpdf
    Xpdf is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Xpdf is designed to be small and efficient.

    I really wanted to include Xpdf in Demi Sized because so much online information is sitting in pdf format these days. A pdf viewer is almost like a second browser.
    Some other great packages strait from Debian:
    • XMMS with mp321 and ogg123 (that's right, you got Music)
    • nVi, an enhanced Vi
    • tinyIRC
    • Assorted Xbase utilities (Xcalc etc.)
    • Ispell(!) -- American English spell check, NEdit pumps right into it.
    • ssh, sshd
    • Zile, a very small yet powerful EMACS clone
    • Xpacman, small Pacman game
    • Sqlite a small and very fast SQL database engine


    Taken from other sources:
    • Monkey web server
    • VNCviewer
    • Rdesktop
    • TuxNES