“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]…?
Linux.com: Some Linux Apps Are Small Wonders
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