Tips & tricks
Unix-y Windows 3.x Windows 2k Windows
7 Mac OS OpenBSD Linux plan9/9front
Software for Unix, Linux, BSD, ...
Desktop environments/window managers
- cwm
- ctwm
- dwm
- englightement
- i3
- icewm
- lxde
- ratpoison
- sway
- windowmaker/gnustep
Email clients
- alpine
- claws-mail
- mutt
- sylpheed
File browser
File-sync
Gemini browser
Gopher browser
Image viewer
IRC
- catgirl
- Emacs erc
- irssi
- hexchat
- weechat
Media player
Music player
PDF viewer
- Emacs pdf-tools
- mupdf
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- poppler-utils (convert pdf to txt)
- zathura
RSS reader
Terminal emulator
Text editor
- Emacs
- nano/pico
- leafpad
- mousepad
- vi/nvi/vim
USENET client
Web browser
- badwolf
- Emacs eww
- links2
- luakit
- lynx
- netsurf
- qutebrowser
- surf-browser
- vimb
- w3m
Linux
Limiting RAM and CPUs with the GRUB bootloader
- edit /etc/default/grub
- add/edit line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="mem=512M maxcpus=1"
- run
grub-update
- reboot
MacOS
Headcrash's list of software for:
OpenBSD
Limiting RAM on OpenBSD
- edit /etc/boot.conf
- add:
machine mem =512M
- reboot
plan9
Limiting RAM and CPU in plan9
In plan9.ini
- *nomp=1
- *ncpu=1
- *maxmem=512M
Windows 3.x
Windows 2K
Tekk's guide on how to survive with Windows 2K.
Windows 7
unsigned's Nokia Booklet retro-station guide, with software tips for Windows 7.
Quirks
Finger without finger daemon
See https://plan.cat