WTF (also known as ‘wtfutil’) is billed as “the personal information dashboard for your terminal”.
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Author: Steve Emms
Linux Candy: Relaxator – relax to soothing sounds
Relaxator is a small utility that’s designed to do one thing — listen to soothing sounds. This free and open source utility is written in Vala.
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12 Best Free Vim-Like Text Editors
Text editors remain a controversial area. Here are our recommended Vim-like text editors. They are all released under an open source license.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple TextEdit
Apple TextEdit is a free and open source basic word processor and text editor. We recommend the best alternatives.
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Backup with these DeDuplicating Encryption Tools
Making file backups is an essential activity for all users, yet many users do not take adequate steps to protect their data.
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BrosTrend 650Mbps AC5L Linux WiFi Adapter Review
This review looks at the BrosTrend AC650 AC5L Linux WiFi Adapter. The adapter has a theoretical maximum of 433Mbps transfer speed on 5GHz or 200MBps with 2.4GHz Wi-Fi.
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Excellent Utilities: Nushell – flexible cross-platform shell with a modern feel
Nushell is billed as a new type of shell. The aim is to adopt the Unix philosophy of shells where pipes connect command together.
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34 Best Free Linux Backup Software (Updated 2023)
Backup software is used to perform a complete back up of a file, data, database, system or server. Here’s the best open source backup software.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – December 2022 Updates
December 2022 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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24 Best Open Source Linux Note Takers
We have compiled this roundup of our pick of high quality note applications for organizing, sharing, and taking notes. Free and open source software only.
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BrosTrend Linux WiFi Adapter AC1200 AC3L Review
This review looks at the BrosTrend Linux USB WiFi Adapter AC1200 (AC3L). Unlike most Wi-Fi sellers, BrosTrend provide Linux support for Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distros.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Contacts
Google Contacts is a contact management service. It’s available on the sidebar of Gmail, a web app, and for Android. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Excellent Utilities: Zellij – terminal workspace with batteries included
Zellij is billed as “a workspace aimed at developers, ops-oriented people and anyone who loves the terminal”. It’s written in Rust.
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Season’s Greetings from LinuxLinks
Everyone involved at LinuxLinks wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
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9 Best Free Linux e-book Tools – Updated 2022
Linux has a good range of open source software which helps users to organize their e-book collection, catch up on a novel, or even to create and publish their own e-books.
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Excellent Utilities: Rnote – sketch and take handwritten notes
Rnote is a vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes and to annotate documents and pictures. Here’s our review.
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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2022
We’ve trawled through our statistics and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2022.
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Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux – Part 5 – Multimedia
For this part in the series, we investigate the multimedia performance of the Lenovo T470 laptop including power management.
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Linux Candy: ctree – Christmas tree on your terminal
Given the time of year, it seems only appropriate to start decorating the desktop. ctree offers a Christmas tree right on your terminal.
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Excellent Utilities: Cerebro – productivity tool
Cerebro is billed as a launcher to improve your productivity and efficiency. This is free and open source software.
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