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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Author: Steve Emms
Excellent Utilities: pastel – generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors
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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Awesome Linux Game Tools: ProtonUp-Qt
ProtonUp-Qt is software which helps you install custom builds of Proton such as GE-Proton. ProtonUp-Qt sports a graphical front-end
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Grapher
Grapher creates 2D and 3D graphs from simple and complex equations. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: touch – change file timestamps
This article spotlights alternative tools to touch, a command to change file timestamps.
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Awesome Linux Game Tools: NoiseTorch-ng
NoiseTorch-ng is billed as an “easy to use open source application for Linux with PulseAudio or PipeWire”.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Oracle’s Products
This series looks at free and open source alternatives to Oracle’s products.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – Science
Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, data analysis, statistics, astronomy, weather, and more.
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Awesome Linux Game Tools: MangoHud
MangoHud is a Vulkan and OpenGL overlay to help you monitor FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load, and more besides.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Time Machine
Time Machine is a built-in backup feature to back up your personal data automatically, including apps, music, photos, emails and documents. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Machine Learning in Linux: LibreTranslate is Self-hosted Machine Translation
LibreTranslate is a machine translation API which is entirely self-hosted. This software lets you use open source machine translation in your projects.
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Arianna – eBook reader and library management app
Arianna is a eBook reader built for the KDE Plasma desktop but, of course, runs under other desktop environments.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Password Manager
Google Password Manager is a password manager built into Chrome and Android devices. We recommend free and open source alternatives.
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Awesome Free Linux Game Tools
Complementing Linux games are a wide range of tools that are designed for gamers. We feature the best tools that are available. This is a new series.
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Awesome Linux Game Tools: gpu-screen-recorder-gtk
gpu-screen-recorder-gtk is a GTK frontend for GPU Screen Recorder. It’s billed as a screen recorder that minimizes system performance by recording using the GPU only.
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Threads has landed, Instagram’s Twitter killer app
Mark Zuckerberg has launched Threads, a clone of Twitter designed to lure people away from Elon Musk’s $44 billion ‘plaything’.
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Awesome Linux Game Tools: libstrangle – frame rate limiter
libstrangle is a Linux utility that lets you cap the FPS of a game. It’s free and open source software written in C.
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Machine Learning in Linux: Argos Translate is an Offline Translation Library
Argos Translate is state of the art neural machine translation software. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.
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b2sum – calculate BLAKE2 checksums
b2sum is a small command-line utility for calculating BLAKE2 checksums.
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Hyper adds multiple profiles and image support with release 4.0.0-canary.4
Hyper is one of our most highly rated terminal emulators. It’s an Electron-based terminal built on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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