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Author: Steve Emms

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Linux Candy: cbonsai – generate bonsai trees

May 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

cbonsai is a bonsai tree generator, written in C using ncurses. It intelligently creates, colors, and positions a bonsai tree.

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System Administration

Essential System Utilities: System Monitoring Center

May 3, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

System Monitoring Center is a multi-featured system monitor. It’s free and open source software written in the Python programming language.

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Best Free and Open Source Software – April 2023

April 30, 2023 Steve Emms Software

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

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: kill

April 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to kill.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Terminal

April 28, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Windows Terminal is billed as “a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application”. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Machine Learning in Linux: GPT4All – local AI chat application

April 26, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, Software

GPT4All Chat is a locally-running AI chat application powered by the GPT4All-J Apache 2 Licensed chatbot.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools for Linux

April 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This series looks at alternatives to popular CLI tools. Many of them are classic commands that have been modernised in some way.

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning in Linux: Upscaler – upscale and enhance images

April 24, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Scientific, Software

Upscaler is GUI GTK4 software that uses sophisticated AI models to enhance your images by guessing what the details could be.

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Automation

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Automator

April 21, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity, Software

Automator is a utility which lets you create custom workflows to perform both simple and complex tasks. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Machine Learning in Linux: DeOldify – colorizing and restoring old images and videos

April 19, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

DeOldify is a modern way to colorize black and white images.

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Music

Linux Candy: linuxwave – generate music from the entropy of Linux

April 18, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, Software

linuxwave is a small utility that’s designed to generate music from the entropy of Linux. It’s written in Zig.

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning in Linux: chatGPT-shell-cli – chatGPT and DALL-E tool

April 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific, Software

chatGPT-shell-cli appears an interesting project to feature as it’s a simple script to use OpenAI’s chatGPT and DALL-E from the terminal without needing to install either Python or Node.js.

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Machine Learning in Linux: Lama Cleaner – self-hostable inpainting tool

April 12, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Scientific, Software

Lama Cleaner is a fully self-hostable inpainting tool powered by state-of-the-art AI models. It’s free and open source software.

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System Administration

Essential System Utilities: bottom – graphical process/system monitor for the terminal

April 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

bottom is billed as a customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal.

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Free and open source software

Best Free and Open Source Software – March 2023

April 1, 2023 Steve Emms Software

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

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning in Linux: Dalai – LLaMA and Alpaca

March 31, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, Software

Dalai bills itself as “the simplest way to run LLaMA on your local machine”. LLaMA is an acronym for Large Language Model Meta AI.

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Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning in Linux: CodeFormer – face restoration

March 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software

CodeFormer is software which offers blind face restoration. This is freeware.

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AI

Machine Learning in Linux: FBCNN – JPEG artifacts removal

March 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software

FBCNN (flexible blind convolutional neural network) is software which seeks to remove artifacts from JPEGs while preserving the integrity of the images

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning in Linux: Easy Diffusion – a Stable Diffusion UI

March 24, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Scientific, Software

Easy Diffusion offers a web user interface for Stable Diffusion. This is cross-platform open source software running on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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RustDesk – virtual / remote desktop software

March 22, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Software

RustDesk is remote desktop allowing maintenance of computers and other devices. It’s free and open source software.

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