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Istos Utilities / Downloads

Below is a collection of software tools, developed and used for various tasks over the course of around 15 years, maybe you can find something useful among them A brief description along with a screenshot for each program follows: SXsshfsGUI– A yad GUI to mount remote file systems through sshfs Required software: yad, sshfs Prerequisites: Successful ssh connection with remote user@host Resource file: $HOME/.SXsshfsGUIrc for preset remote filesystems / local mount points to be appearing automatically in the Remote and Local drop down fields shown above(Legend: R – remote, M – local mount point) ——– RESOURCE FILE SNIPPET——–R user@host:directoryM path_to_mount_point——–8<——–8<——–8<——–8<——–8<——–8<——–8<——–8<——–8<——– SXencfsGUI– A yad GUI to mount encrypted file systems through encfs Required software: yad, encfs Prerequisites: Successful encryption of a directory and empty mount point Resource file: $HOME/.SXencfsGUIrc for preset encrypted filesystems / mount points to be appearing automatically in the [Encrypted] [Mountpoint] drop down field shown above ——– RESOURCE FILE SNIPPET——–/absolute/path/to/encrypted/directory1 /absolute/path/to/mount/point1/absolute/path/to/encrypted/directory2 /absolute/path/to/mount/point2——–8<——–8<——–8<——–8<——–8<——–8<——–8<——–8<——–8<——– SXURLDecode– A yad GUI to decode URLs Required software: yad SXtextView– A zenity context menu viewer for text files SXhtmlView– A zenity context menu viewer for previewing html files SXmd5View– A zenity context menu md5 sum calculator for all files SXsha1View– A zenity context menu sha1

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GNU/Linux on istos.stamatis.uk

GNU/Linux or simply Linux for convenience, is – for a lot of us – the Operating System of choice and for good reasons: Power, stability, security, flexibility, to name but a few, which allow the user to have a unique computing experience. Of course, from distribution to distribution and release to release, GNU/Linux does carry few quirks, mostly minor, that require our attention nonetheless, some of which we’ll try to address and resolve in our site, through a growing list of Articles and an expanding Knowledge Base. Furthermore, we have some free software for GNU/Linux that you can download and use as you wish. Finally, we would appreciate your feedback regarding anything we present on the site, as well as your own suggestions, or even tips and articles.