eXpertGNU

Similar to eXpressGNU, eXpertGNU also provides a simple and intuitive graphical interface into the world of GNU. Typically, GNU tools (and other command line tools for that matter) suffer from too many details and complexity of operation for the end user to remember. The accompanying tools documentation is usually anemic and cryptic at best (a lot of command line switches, restrictions, and odd conditions to remember/understand in order to use the tools effectively). This handicap has limited the number of active users of GNU tools.

Embedded Software Group, Inc. with its eXpertGNU product intends to eliminate the need to know any of the underlying operation details of the GNU tools by providing the needed functionality via a well-organized, simple and intuitive graphical interface. To illustrate, take tar for example, a GNU tool for archiving and extracting data files similar to WinZip (w/o compression) has over a 100 command line switches. Understanding what switches to use, the interaction and side effect of using various switches is a very confusing and a non-productive exercise for the user. The tool is very useful one but maybe cryptic to use. With eXpertGNU, the underlying functionality is presented using a standard GUI interface, the tool output log is collected and stored, errors are caught and information is presented intelligently to the user (with suggestions on what to do next), error-recovery and clean-ups are handled automatically and visual effects keep the user informed of the tool's progress.

eXpertGNU is a single screen user interface with various categories of tools supported (compiler and language tools, file manipulation tools, shell utilities ... etc). Each functional category is self explanatory and well integrated with other related categories (for example, file manipulation tools help users renaming files, change ownership of a files and/or directories, create or restore from a backup, monitor disk usage, organize folders, links etc.).