A collection of simple programs.

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• Alpine Linux
• Devuan
• Antix
• Artix
• OpenBSD

• Minimal installation of Fedora 38
• Minimal installation of Rocky / Alma / RHEL 9
• Debian 11 with the runit init system

• links console based simple web browser
• netsurf small web browser with CSS support
• badwolf minimalist and privacy-oriented WebKitGTK+ browser

• mutt
• Claws Mail

Comparison

• e3 ultra lightweight editor without dependencies, written in assembly.
• mg Small, fast, and portable Emacs-like editor.
• dte Small, easy to use editor with multi-tabbed interface, syntax highlighting
• nano editor with on-screen key bindings help and syntax highlighting
• joe editor with Wordstar keybindings
• mcedit easy to use editor that comes with Midnight Commander
• vi The traditional vi
• nvi Reimplementation of vi with multibyte support
• vim Advanced, extensible vi editor with tons of (optional) features
• tilde An intuitive text editor for the terminal
• ne A simple to use editor

• mdp A command-line based markdown presentation tool.
• mupdf lightweight document viewer and toolkit, supports PDF, XPS, EPUB,
• abiword Full-featured graphical word processor.
• gnumeric spreadsheet program
• gummi Lightweight LaTeX GTK-based editor with continuous preview mode

Comparison

• mc Midnight Commander - a free N….. Commander Clone
• vifm a curses based Vim-like file manager
• nnn a lightweight terminal file manager
• fff a simple file manager written in bash
• ranger a console file manager written in python
• lf a terminal file manager written in Go
• joshuto a ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust.

Comparison

• mlterm a multilingual terminal emulator on X11. It has a low memory footprint and offers configuration by command line and a graphical tool.
• xterm The default terminal emulator on X11. Is has support for unicode and truetype fonts. Configuration via .Xresources or popup menu. Memory footprint is moderate.
• urxvt highly extendable (with Perl) unicode enabled terminal emulator

comparison

• cwm a lightweight and efficient stacking window manager for X11
• fluxbox very lightweight window manager, easy to handle but yet full of features
• icewm lightweight window manager which resembles the UI of Windows 95
• openbox highly configurable stacking window manager
• windowmaker a window manager designed to emulate NeXTSTEP's GUI
• twm very simple window manager, included in the Xorg distribution
• fvwm3 Next generation of fvwm
• jwm window manager with an interface similar to Windows 98

comparison

• i3 dynamic and tiling window manager, completely written from scratch.
• herbstluftwm a manual tiling window manager
• awesome a highly configurable window manager
• bspwm a very lightweight tiling window manager
• ratpoison tiling wm which manages windows without using a mouse
• spectrwm a small dynamic tiling window manager with sane defaults

• rofi a window switcher, Application launcher and dmenu replacement
• xtrlock minimal X display lock program
• ncdu simple disk usage analyzer with a ncurses interface