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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: talk

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to talk, a venerable talk client.

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11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Data Mining Software

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms Office, Roundup, Scientific

Data mining (also known as knowledge discovery) is the process of gathering large amounts of valid information, analyzing that information and condensing it into meaningful data.

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Updating Recommended Linux Software: Our Plans

August 12, 2023 Steve Emms Software

We share our plans regarding updates to our recommended free and open source Linux software.

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Best Free and Open Source Compression Tools

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: compress

August 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to compress, a utility that reduces the size of files.

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Text Editor

10 Best Free and Open Source Neovim GUIs

August 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

Neovim’s RPC support lets developers create new front-ends (GUIs) for Neovim that are outside of the terminal. We make our recommendations.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: date

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to date, a utility that prints or sets the system date and time.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cmp

August 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to cmp, a utility that compares two files of any type and writes the results to the standard output.

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Apple Calendar

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cal

August 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternatives tools to cal, a utility for displaying calendars on the command-line.

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Excellent Utilities: noti – notification tool

August 7, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

noti is a small tool written in Go that monitors a command or process and triggers a notification.

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8 Top Free and Open Source Graphical User Interfaces for R

August 6, 2023 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

To provide an insight into the quality of software available for Linux, we give our verdict on the best graphical user interfaces for R.

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Machine Learning in Linux: Ollama – self-hosted Llama 2

August 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific, Software

Ollama is software in an early stage of development that lets you run and chat with Llama 2 and other models.

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Command Schedulers

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cron

August 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to cron, a daemon to execute scheduled commands.

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Archive Manager

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Archive Utility

August 4, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Archive Utility creates and decompresses .zip files and other compressed files. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: strings

August 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

Alternative tools to strings, a utility that prints the sequences of printable characters in files.

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Best Free and Open Source Software July 2023 Updates

August 1, 2023 Steve Emms Software

July 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Machine Learning in Linux: Text generation web UI

July 31, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific

Text generation web UI is software that offers a web user interface for a variety of large language models such as LLaMA, llama.cpp, GPT-J, OPT, and GALACTICA.

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Natural Language Processing

10 Excellent R Natural Language Processing Tools

July 28, 2023 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, Scientific

Natural language processing (NLP) is a set of techniques for using computers to detect in human language the kinds of things that humans detect automatically.

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Password Managers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Keychain Access

July 28, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Keychain Access stores your passwords and account information, and reduces the number of passwords you have to remember and manage. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Utilities

45 Outstanding Linux Utilities to Maximize your Productivity

July 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, Productivity, Utilities

This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential utilities. These are small, indispensable tools, useful for anyone running a Linux machine.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: pastel – generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

July 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. This tool supports a variety of color formats and color spaces.

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