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eduardo.eae

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From: Reconquista - Argentina

Registered: 2010-01-24

Posts: 69

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

Or dcompmgr-git in AUR...

Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

imgseek.

it is an image collecting program. Its main feature is to find images that are visually similar to each other.  I did not find anything similar in newer programs. Maybe I do not know the right programs.

Other than that, it is slow and buggy. It uses qt3.

http://www.imgseek.net

mateusz.f

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Registered: 2009-04-17

Posts: 46

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

ion3
Its programmer dumped Linux and became Windows user. I still use ion, and imho it is the best window manager for my needs.

Murray_B

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 134

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

Oh, there are many programs that are (quite) dead and which I would like to be alive:
cplay - curses frontend to mpg123 and ogg123
unison - the best desktop-synchronizer, I haven't found an alternative app for this
kde 3 - I know, there is trinity, but AFAIK it is a one man show :-(
kuickshow - kde3 image viewer

dwidmann

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From: Gordonsville, Virginia, US

Registered: 2009-05-27

Posts: 60

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

I liked ivman.  It doesn't work with current hal versions.

Have you tried halevt?

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Hmm, this thread reminds me of things I've missed somewhat ... Would have liked to see avisynth3, it has been years since an update to quanta+, kuickshow had a nice minimalistic interface but Gwenview has replaced it well enough. I miss KSokoban also.

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

Rox-filer. It seems Thomas Leonard is too busy to maintain it.

atm

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From: Mumbai

Registered: 2011-04-03

Posts: 37

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

I cried when Songbird cut out its support for Linux based machines.
Amarok doesn't work on my PC for some reason.

gazj

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From: /home/gazj -> /uk/cambs

Registered: 2007-02-09

Posts: 681

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Re: Favorite dead open source project?

Rox-filer. It seems Thomas Leonard is too busy to maintain it.

I too really like rox-filer, mostly cus I grew up on risc-os.

A project I used to show some interest in - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne_%28web_browser%29

EDIT:  Looks like there has been an update recently

Last edited by gazj (2011-04-03 09:46:28)

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akephalos

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-04-22

Posts: 114

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

Amarok doesn't work on my PC for some reason.

Check out Clementine then.

Him

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From: Here

Registered: 2010-06-22

Posts: 133

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Re: Favorite dead open source project?

I cried when Songbird cut out its support for Linux based machines.
Amarok doesn't work on my PC for some reason.

Keep an eye on the Nightingale project then.

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oliver

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Registered: 2007-12-12

Posts: 448

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

I still use multi-gnome-terminal which means compiling all the GTK1 dependencies.  And it's still worth it.  Terminator comes close in features but it's still lacking a few things that MGT has

http://multignometerm.sourceforge.net/

last update: 21-04-2003

Tobu

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Registered: 2010-06-25

Posts: 3

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

imgseek.

it is an image collecting program. Its main feature is to find images that are visually similar to each other.  I did not find anything similar in newer programs. Maybe I do not know the right programs.

Other than that, it is slow and buggy. It uses qt3.

http://www.imgseek.net

Geeqie has a deduplicate feature that can find similar images. I think it relies on a post-processed colour histogram.

bz1pp3d

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Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 21

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

Let's go back to one of the roots! XMMS IMO is the best, i'm using it since i'm in linux world ( ~ 2003)

Beelzebud

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From: Illinois, U.S.

Registered: 2010-07-16

Posts: 154

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

Gnome 2

lowie82ph

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Registered: 2008-08-10

Posts: 22

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

noteo

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

Let's go back to one of the roots! XMMS IMO is the best, i'm using it since i'm in linux world ( ~ 2003)

Hell yeah! I too still continue to use XMMS. I know there's Audacious, but it's not really it.

Master Beef

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Registered: 2005-05-28

Posts: 37

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

ratpoison. best tiling wm ever made imo

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SS4

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From: !Rochford, Essex

Registered: 2010-12-05

Posts: 699

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

pacpl. CLI batch audio conversion and a dolphin plugin

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jpalan

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Registered: 2006-10-16

Posts: 28

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

Golem window manager. For some reason I really liked that software, even tried making some themes for it, it was a really adorable project.

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

Posts: 5,000

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

FaunOS

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cb474

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 469

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

Gnome 2

I second this idea. Strangely, at least for some of us, Gnome is now a dead project. I don't really see Gnome-Shell as a continuation of Gnome in any sense. It's just an entirely new desktop, from a UI perspective. That's fine. But it would be great to keep Gnome 2 alive.

der_joachim

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From: the Netherlands

Registered: 2008-12-17

Posts: 143

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Re: Favorite dead open source project?

The Amarok 1.4 branch. Fortunately, it lives on as Clementine, so I do not know whether this one counts.

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MurdersLastCrow

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Registered: 2010-10-04

Posts: 74

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

They've updated gnome-panel for Gnome 3 with a lot of improvements, and you can use Mutter in Fallback mode, or any other window manager. But yeah, I don't think applets and the panels will be actively developed unless some old-school users take the reigns- they fixed a lot of the old issues with it and optimized it, though. So I doubt it will become unusable any year soon. But yeah, Gnome 1 is dead, KDE 3 is barely breathing, etc.

I'd say my favorite dead project is Joe's WM (has been slow for a long time, and no updates since 2008, ie. when KDE 4 came out). It's what helped me to bring my old computer back from the dead so very long ago. D: Oh, the memories. That thing still sits there in the corner, kind of working on 112 MB of RAM. @_@ It's madness.

ConnorBehan

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From: Long Island NY

Registered: 2007-07-05

Posts: 1,359

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Re: Favorite dead open source project?

Half the programs I use are dead :S. I guess the ones I'd pick are:

* KSirtet - best Tetris clone I've seen
* Exmap - the only memory analysis tool I've seen that doesn't double-count shared libraries
* Longene - implementation of Wine at the kernel level which has only been dead for a year so maybe there is still hope...

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cb474

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 469

Re: Favorite dead open source project?

* Longene - implementation of Wine at the kernel level which has only been dead for a year so maybe there is still hope...

On the website it looks like there's been activity as recently as yesterday. Is this project dead?