Mr Vijay Kumar B released Beta version of XPDF with GGI (General
Graphics Interface) Front end. Use of GGI will give a reliable,
stable and fast graphics system that works everywhere.
URL: http://www.bravegnu.org/xpdf/  (Developers Needed)

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whatis — Search the whatis database for complete words.

Summary:

Whatis DB contains the name and one line description about all
commands man pages. whatis searches for keywords and displays the
result(s) on the standard output. Only complete word matches are
displayed.

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Mr Vijay Kumar released the Beta version of XPDF with GGI (General
Graphics Interface) Front end. Use of GGI will give the reliable,
stable and fast graphics system that works everywhere.
URL: http://www.bravegnu.org/xpdf/  (Volunteers Needed)

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renice — Alter priority of running processes.

Summary:

GNU/Linux is a multi-user and multi-tasking OS. So many processes will
be running with some scheduling policy like Round Rabin, FIFO etc..
High priority process will get more CPU Time.

Renice is used to alters the scheduling priority of one or more
running processes. Priority range goes from -20 (highest priority)
to 19 (lowest priority).

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Want to know the Linux News On Internet Time? Check Linux Today
News Site. URL: http://linuxtoday.com/

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which — Shows the location of (shell) commands.

Summary:

which will search for the given command in the PATH and prints the
full path of the executables that would have been executed when this
command had been entered at the shell prompt.

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The Linux Cookbook provides lot of Tips and Techniques for Everyday
Use. This book is available in On-Line and Printed form.
URL: http://dsl.org/cookbook/

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nice — Run a command with modified priority.

Summary:

GNU/Linux is a multi-user and multi-tasking OS. So many processes will
be running with some scheduling policy like Round Rabin, FIFO etc..
High priority process will get more CPU Time.

nice command is used to run the given command with its scheduling
priority adjusted. Priority range goes from -20 (highest priority)
to 19 (lowest priority).

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Tamil Language WikiPedia: http://ta.wikipedia.org/

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c++decl — Create/Explain C++ Type Declarations.

Summary:

Cdecl is a program for encoding and decoding C/C++ type declarations
in English language. Both cdecl and c++decl are same program. cdecl
will use C notation and c++decl use C++. It can run in interactive
(shell-like) and non-interactive mode (command line arguments).

In the interactive mode, cdecl will wait for your input in “c++decl> “
prompt. Enter “quit or exit” to exit. Enter “?” for help.

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Mr Pramod CE and his team developed a Phoenix Live CD for Physics with
Homemade Equipment and Innovative Experiments. Now this project is
maintained by NSC New Delhi. URL: http://www.nsc.res.in/~elab/phoenix/

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cdecl — Create/Explain C Type Declarations.

Summary:

Cdecl is a program for encoding and decoding C type declarations in
English language. It can run in interactive (shell-like) and
non-interactive mode (command line arguments).

In the interactive mode, cdecl will wait for your input in “cdecl> “
prompt. Enter “quit or exit” to exit. Enter “?” for help.
   

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Prof. KalyanaKrishnan R and his team (IIT-Madras) done a wonderful
job to implement the MultiLingual Indian systems.
URL: http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/

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install — Copy files and set attributes.

Summary:

‘install’ will copy single/multiple source(s) to destination, sets
permission modes & owner/group and take backup of existing files. It
is very useful for writing the install scripts.

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Mr Muthiah is released the G2 interface to Octave, which is used to
get the graphs in different formats like PNG, JPEG, PS, EPS, X11…
URL: http://octave-gtk.sf.net/octave-g2/

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dpkg — A medium-level package manager for Debian.

Summary:

dpkg is a medium-level tool to install, build, remove and manage
Debian packages. The primary and more user-friendly front-end for
dpkg is dselect(8).

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