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Re: Open Source or Free web aps that make your life easier

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Originally Posted by daltore
-apropos - Type in a keyword and it'll give you every program, library, or general topic having to do with it
Sounds really useful.

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Originally Posted by daltore
-aptitude - Linux package manager, fast, automatic, no dependency hell.
I can't put into words how much I love aptitude. I cringe now whenever I have to install software on a Windows machine.

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-Piklab - Clone of MPLab. Unfortunately, no clone of C18 yet.
SDCC has at least some support for PIC18s as targets. That said, it doesn't like the C18-specific extensions in the code for the old control system.

My contributions:
-> Eclipse can be a bit daunting, but it's really useful, if only because it, through plugins, supports more languages and development tools than you can shake a stick at.
-> GNU find is amazing. If you're unlucky enough to be tied to Windows, install Cygwin right now even if it's just to run find.