These are from Fedora Magazine:4 cool new projects to try in COPR for February
By Dominik Turecek

COPR is a collection of personal repositories for software that isn’t carried in Fedora. Some software doesn’t conform to standards that allow easy packaging. Or it may not meet other Fedora standards, despite being free and open source. COPR can offer these projects outside the Fedora set of packages. Software in COPR isn’t supported by Fedora infrastructure or signed by the project. However, it can be a neat way to try new or experimental software.

Here’s a set of new and interesting projects in COPR.

SWFTools

SWFTools is a set of command-line tools to manipulate and generate SWF files. It also contains programs to read or combine SWF files, or create them from other content such as image, video, audio, or source code files. In addition, SWFTools can extract content from existing SWF files.

SolveSpace

SolveSpace is a lightweight parametric 2D and 3D CAD modeling program. It includes an advanced geometric constraint solver. SolveSpace makes use of the model assembly easy, and it can manipulate the model dynamically. It also exports models to STL, DXF, PDF and SVG files, among many other functions. In addition, there are many tutorials for SolveSpace available.

 

Restic

Restic is a backup program that aims to be fast, efficient, and secure. It stores data as deduplicated snapshots, which allows you to restore to a state from a specific time. Restic also supports multiple local and remote storage back ends. In addition, it assumes the backup storage location is shared, so it always uses encryption.
Installation instructions

 

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Polo

Polo is a file manager that supports multiple panes, each with multiple tabs and an embedded terminal. Polo offers many features such as:

Session support
A device manager that works with LUKS encrypted devices
Ability to create archives using multiple formats
Browser for archives as though they were normal folders
Full set of configuration options.

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     Night before last a bad build got pushed and x2go has broken on most of our servers as a result.  I am installing the stable release to provide some functionality until they get the nightly builds working again.

     When you login you will have an initial screen size of 800×600.  To change this, open a terminal and type:

        xrandr -s (width)x(height)

     For example, I have a 1920×1080 screen so I would type:

        xrandr -s 1920×1080

     We will restore full functionality as soon as a working build becomes available again in Nightly Builds.  Thank you for your patience.