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TerminusDM – cross platform terminal download manager

January 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

TerminusDM is a powerful cross-platform terminal application download manager built with Rust.

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Performance

AB Download Manager – manage and organize downloading files

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

AB Download Manager is software which is designed to make it easier and quicker to download files from anywhere.

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Ghostty – feature-rich and cross-platform terminal emulator

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

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ns-3 – discrete-event network simulator

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ns-3 is a discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems, targeted primarily for research and educational use.

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Painting

Sly – friendly image editor

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Sly is billed as a friendly free and open source image editor that requires no internet connection or preexisting expertise.

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Best Free Window Managers

croissant – stacking Wayland compositor

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

croissant is a stacking Wayland compositor that’s written in the C programming language.

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File Managers

kupo – terminal file browser

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

kupo is a terminal file browser written in Python.

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Network simulator

Cooja – network simulator

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Cooja is a network simulator that’s written in Java.

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getparty – HTTP download manager with multi-parts

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

getparty is free and open source software written in Go.

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Music image

Chordcat – chord naming program

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

Chordcat is a desktop app that helps you identify and name chords based on inputted notes.

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Encryption software

Lock – process data with GnuPG

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Security

Lock is a graphical front-end for GnuPG (GPG) making use of an attractive LibAdwaita GUI.

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Grunge paint background

delicolour – lightweight colour finder

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

delicolour is a lightweight colour finder written in Python.

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Files

nvim-tree – file explorer for Neovim

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

nvim-tree.lua is a file explorer / filesystem tree view plugin for Neovim. It’s written in Lua.

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Find

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: history

January 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

history is a command which displays or manipulates the history list. We recommend alternatives to this command.

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Linux Chess Apps

Chess Clock – time games of over-the-board chess

January 4, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Chess Clock is a simple application to provide time control for over-the-board chess games. It’s written in Python.

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Circuit board

Archey 4 – simple system information tool

January 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Archey is a simple system information tool written in Python.

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Find

hiSHtory – better shell history

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hiSHtory is a better shell history. It stores your shell history in context.

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Image of Files

xplr – hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

xplr is a terminal UI based file explorer that aims to increase your terminal productivity. It’s written in Rust.

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Video Conferencing

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Cisco Packet Tracer

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Cisco Packet Tracer is a networking simulation tool for teaching and learning how to create network topologies. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Find

Bevel – command line history in an SQLite database

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Bevel is a tool which offers command line history in an SQLite database for effective re-use.

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