Top 15 exercism Alternative and Similar Softwares | Nov 2024

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1. Registrar Registry Manager

Registrar Registry Manager Registrar Registry Manager offers a very complete and safe solution to administrators and power users for maintaining the registry on both their desktops and remote computers on their network.Apart from common features such as those offered by the native Windows registry editor RegEdit, this program offers solutions for backing up......

2. AFDKO

AFDKO AFDKO is a collection of command-line tools used at Adobe for manipulating and creating OpenType font files. Can verify structures, and table entries and their checksums.......

3. WuInstall

WuInstall Updating Windows systems is one of the routine tasks of an administrator, usually done automatically with or without WSUS. The problem with it is, as we all know, that users are bothered by the time-consuming process of requesting available updates and reboots - not only at Microsoft Patch Day. That......

4. MS-DOS

MS-DOS The first Operating System released by Microsoft company. It allowed the user to do many operations directly over the hardware.......

5. Microsoft Typography

Microsoft Typography Internal tools developed at Microsoft for manipulating and creating OpenType and TrueType font files. Used in development of new font toolsets and fonts. The tools includes TTFdump, TrueType Open Assembler, Flint, SBIT32, CacheTT, FastFont, and AddTable.......

6. hashdeep

hashdeep Computes the MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, Tiger, or Whirlpool message digest for any number of files while optionally recursively digging through the directory structure. Can also match input files against lists of known hashes in a variety of formats.......

7. iWatch

iWatch iWatch is a realtime filesystem monitoring program. Its purpose is to monitor any changes in a specific directory or file and send email notification immediately after the change. This can be very useful to watch a sensible file or directory against any changes, like files /etc/passwd,/etc/shadow or directory /bin or......

8. makepasswd

makepasswd makepasswd generates true random passwords by using the /dev/urandom feature of Linux, with the emphasis on security over pronounceability.It can also encrypt plaintext passwords given on the command line.......

9. WakeupOnStandBy

WakeupOnStandBy Have you ever thought about how much energy your computers use up at night or when they're not in use? Have you ever wondered if it's possible to wake up your system from a sleep mode (or hibernation) using a resident program and not waste all that energy?The answer is......

10. gpm

gpm gpm is the mouse support for Linux on the console. This package provides a daemon that captures mouse events when the system console is active, and delivers events to applications through a library.The default when no application is running is to emulate "selection", that is, to allow cut-and-paste with the......

11. toilet

toilet The TOIlet project attempts to create a free replacement for the ?FIGlet utility. TOIlet stands for “The Other Implementation’s letters”, coined after FIGlet’s “Frank, Ian and Glen’s letters”.......

12. OnMyCommand

OnMyCommand OnMyCommand is a UNIX shell script and AppleScript executor. You can build your own Contextual Menu Item or GUI application.* You can create a contextual menu item or an applet using UNIX shell script or AppleScript.* You can specify for the command is to be executed silently, in terminal or......

13. dtach

dtach dtach is a tiny program that emulates the detach feature of screen, allowing you to run a program in an environment that is protected from the controlling terminal and attach to it later. dtach does not keep track of the contents of the screen, and thus works best with programs......

14. WiX

WiX The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and MSM setup packages.......

15. mpg321

mpg321 mpg321 is a very popular command-line mp3 player. mpg321 is used for frontends, as an mp3 player and as an mp3 to wave file decoder (primarily for use with CD-recording software.).mpg321 is a project conceived and written by Joe Drew . It uses code from the MAD distribution by Rob......