An institutional/enterprise-scale distributed real-time messaging and notification system. Zephyr allows users to send messages to other users or to groups of
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
Growl is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Zephyr Notification Service, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked nine alternatives to Growl and five of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Growl are Notify OSD, Specto, Notifo and Notica.
An institutional/enterprise-scale distributed real-time messaging and notification system. Zephyr allows users to send messages to other users or to groups of
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