Free small text software for linux

grml-small is a bootable CD (Live-CD) based on Knoppix and Debian. grml-small includes a collection of GNU/Linux software for system administrators and provides automatic hardware detection.

Whereas grml (without the -small) provides more than about 2.1GiB of software on a 700MB-ISO, grml-small is a very small rescue system for systemadministrators.

It is not necessary to install anything to a harddisk, you dont even need a harddisk to run it. Due to on-the-fly decompression grml-small includes about 150 MB of software and still fits on a business card CD-ROM or USB device with 50MB.

Initial release of grml-small, a very small version of the grml-system. Notice that there are several hacks to reduce the ISO-size, so you wont find for example documentation and manpages on the ISO.

grml-small provides support for booting via USB, see http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb for details.

Kernel is based on vanilla kernel 2.6.12 including several patches (MPPC/MPPE, Reiser4, Squashfs,...) but compared with the normal grml system the kernel features have been reduced. See http://grml.org/kernel/ for more details.

Damn Small Linux Not is built on Damn Small Linux technology. Damn Small Linux Not is also small, bigger than DSL but smaller than most. Damn Small Linux Not provides a reliable, and compact array of applications based mostly on the GTK2 libraries.
DSL-N is not an evolution of DSL, it is not intended as progress over the philosophy of DSL, but is intended for a different user, or the same user under different circumstances.
Main features:
- it is small
- it has software which is feature full
- it takes advantage of redundant lib dependencies and suits to pack features into a tight distribution
- DSL-N has a modern kernel and does not squeeze out critical modules that would limit compatibility
Like DSL, DSL-n can:
- Boot from from a CD as a live Linux distribution (LiveCD)
- Boot from a USB pen drive
- Boot from within a host operating system (thats right, it can run *inside* Windows)
- Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call "frugal install"
- Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install
- Run fully in RAM
- Modularly grow -- DSL-N is highly extendable without the need to customize
- The applications in DSL-N were chosen because they are functional, usable, and relatively compact. Unlike DSL, DSL-N has GTK2 applications, that means DSL-N will need more ram and CPU cycles than DSL. To have a pleasant experience, we recommend at least 64MBs and 300MHz.
DSL-N, unlike DSL, does not have a hard size cap, but it is being developed by the DSL team, and we hate bloat! So, dont expect DSL-N to get too big.
Why are you making this offshoot of DSL when DSL is so successful? Because a 50MB, GTK2 based distribution, with a 2.6.x kernel and excellent hardware detection/support is a contradiction in terms. DSL-N represents our best effort to stay compact while providing for the needs of those who want the Bling Bling such as SATA support, Gnumeric, Abiword, gMplayer.
Enhancements:
- Added "noprompt noeject" to default boot options for frugal installs.
- Fixed madwifi wireless.
- Fixed chpasswd vs passwd. "secure" boot option now works correctly.
- Added gnu-utils into the base iso.
- Fixed USB2 not loading bug
- Improved mydsl=hdxy when specified to not also search this makes it consistent with restore boot option.
- Enhanced exitcheck to prompt warning if no backup device is selected when requested to save special settings.
- Fixed multi user hard drive install bug.
- Added murgaLua Lua/Fltk development toolkit.

Small Arms Ballistics is, as the name says, a ballistics calculator for small arms fire. It is a terminal application written using curses.
Small Arms Ballistics is derived from smallball, which was written by Ole-Hj. Kristensen. I have pretty much rewritten the entire program, but smallball got me started. All major
trajectory calculations have been implemented, and a variety of bullet drag models are available.
The program needs a color capable terminal, otherwise it wont run.
Enhancements:
- distribution didnt include saballistics.lsm.in

Tartan is a text parsing engine targeted at wiki text. The syntax specification is defined in YAML in the form of regex-based rules.

It supports layering and multiple output types. Rules for Markdown to HTML are included, with optional layered extensions for tables. Tartan text parser is implemented in Ruby, but looking to have implementations in other languages.

Text::Diff can perform diffs on files and record sets.

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Diff;

## Mix and match filenames, strings, file handles, producer subs,
## or arrays of records; returns diff in a string.
## WARNING: can return B diffs for large files.
my $diff = diff "file1.txt", "file2.txt", { STYLE => "Context" };
my $diff = diff $string1, $string2, %options;
my $diff = diff *FH1, *FH2;
my $diff = diff &reader1, &reader2;
my $diff = diff @records1, @records2;

## May also mix input types:
my $diff = diff @records1, "file_B.txt";

diff() provides a basic set of services akin to the GNU diff utility. It is not anywhere near as feature complete as GNU diff, but it is better integrated with Perl and available on all platforms. It is often faster than shelling out to a systems diff executable for small files, and generally slower on larger files.

Relies on Algorithm::Diff for, well, the algorithm. This may not produce the same exact diff as a systems local diff executable, but it will be a valid diff and comprehensible by patch. We havent seen any differences between Algorithm::Diffs logic and GNU diffs, but we have not examined them to make sure they are indeed identical.

Note: If you dont want to import the diff function, do one of the following:

use Text::Diff ();

require Text::Diff;

Thats a pretty rare occurence, so diff() is exported by default.

Text::Quote contains quotes strings as required for perl to eval them back correctly.

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Quote;

my @quotes=map{$quoter->quote($_,indent=>6,col_width=>60)}(
"The time has come"
the walrus said,
"to speak of many things..."
," 123456abtn13fr16172021222324252627303132e34353637",
("6abtn13fr32e34" x 5),2/3,10,00);
for my $i (1..@quotes) {
print "$var$i=".$quotes[$i-1].";n";
}
Would produce:
$var1=qq"The time has come"ntthetwalrus said,nt"to speak of man.
qqy things...";
$var2=" 123456abtn13fr16172021222324252627".
"303132e34353637";
$var3=("6abtn13fr32e34" x 5);
$var4=0.666666666666667;
$var5=10;
$var6=00;