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Wine

Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on x86-based Unixes.

41 Reviews

Downloads: 781 This Week

Last Update: 1 day ago
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keyTouch

KeyTouch makes it possible to easily configure the extra function keys (like multimedia keys) of your keyboard. You can define which program will be executed while pressing a key. KeyTouch 2 is the first program of its kind that works on kernel 2.6.

2 Reviews

Downloads: 29 This Week

Last Update: 2016-02-27
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Krusader

Krusader is a twin-panel (commander style) filemanager for KDE. It supports mime-type, complete drag n' drop, multiple filesystems, archives, bookmarks etc. Krusader's GUI is intuitive, and allows an easy access to all of your file-management needs.

7 Reviews

Downloads: 6 This Week

Last Update: 2013-04-24
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gok

GOK is an on-screen keyboard. An alternative to the mouse/keyboard input system (for unix-like systems with GNOME libraries.)

Downloads: 1 This Week

Last Update: 2015-01-31
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Kurisu OS 3.0

Kurisu OS 3.0

Kurisu OS 3.0 es un sistema operativo basado en OpenSUSE 12.1,que trae consigo ventajas como la posibilidad de instalación y utilización de aplicaciones de varias plataformas: Windows, Linux,Mac (Mac todavía en fase experimental).Ademas es un sistema sencillo y accesible que cualquier persona sin grandes conocimientos puede usar,ya que utiliza GNOME 3 una interfaz de usuario sencilla y practica la cual se adapta no solo a tus necesidades de usuario sino que además se adapta a la edad y potencia de tu ordenador permitiendote usar 2 escritorios,uno para ordenadores actuales que reunen unas caracteristicas que le permiten utilizar un escritorio hermoso con las ultimas tecnologías de aceleración de gráficos y un escritorio para rescatar ese viejo ordenador que tenias olvidado en tu garaje,ya que el escritorio alternativo te permite usar menos recursos.

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2015-04-01
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