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Linux.com: Some Linux Apps Are Small Wonders

“While it’s easy to sing the praises of big applications like
OpenOffice.org or the GIMP (and rightly so), the heavyweights of
the open source world cast a long shadow over a host of much
smaller, lesser-known apps that may do just what you need. One of
the original philosophies behind Unix was that a program should do
one thing and do it well. Here are a few programs that embody that
philosophy.

“The e3 console text editor takes minimalism to the max–the
binary is a minuscule 13KB in size! So why use this instead of
[insert the name of your favorite editor here]…?


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