I'm looking for a program that does X and runs on unix (or at least on my particular unix system). Where can I look? Is there a more efficient way than a generic web search?
Where can I find Software for Unix/Linux that does X
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Try midori. It has pretty much all you want (except maybe for tagged bookmarks), is lighter than Firefox/Chrome and is based upon WebKit.
Midori is a lightweight web browser.
Features
Full integration with GTK+2.
Fast rendering with WebKit.
Tabs, windows and session management.
Private browsing and sensitive data options.
User scripts and user styles support.
Straightforward bookmark management and flexible Web Search.
Customizable and extensible interface.
Extensions such as Adblock, form history, mouse gestures or cookie management.
Also, xxxterm was recommended in a comment.
You should definitely take a look at taskwarrior! Visit the tutorial to learn about its capabilities.
Best Answer
The first place to look is your distribution's package list. That's where you'll find the easiest-to-install programs. Some package management tools provide advanced ways of searching it.
On Debian and Debian-based distributions (e.g. Ubuntu), you can search package descriptions with
apt-cache searchoraptitude search(on the command line), or through the search facility in interactive package managers such as Aptitude and Synaptic. There's also more structured information in the form of tags: install thedebtagspackage, and make basic queries with thedebtagscommand or browse the tag database in Aptitude. Tags are a good way to find packages to work with a particular file format, for example.On Red Hat and other distributions using yum (e.g. CentOS, Fedora), you can search package descriptions with
yum search(on the command line).If the package is not in your distribution, it might be available from an unofficial source. Try the Linux packages search, which indexes several official and unofficial sources of Linux packages. For Ubuntu, search for the package in a PPA.
If your distribution doesn't have anything, you can also look in the package database of another distribution. Example distributions with a large package database are Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Ubuntu.