September 2020 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Author: Steve Emms
Excellent System Utilities: CPU-X – system profiler tool
CPU-X is a similar tool to the Windows utility CPU-Z. Unlike CPU-Z, CPU-X is free and open source Linux software. Here’s our review.
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dupeGuru – find duplicate files
dupeGuru finds duplicate files in a given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. Here’s our review of this open source program.
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Now and Then: The Journey of 5 Open Source Linux Music Players
Back in 2016, we carried a feature looking at 5 music software that were highly promising. How did this merry band of open source software fare?
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Apostrophe – distraction free Markdown editor
Apostrophe is a distraction free Markdown editor written in Python. Apostrophe is free and open source software.
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Now and Then: The Fate of 7 Promising Free Linux Web Browsers
Now and Then is a series of articles that looks at how Linux software has fared over the years. This article picks up on 7 web browsers.
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Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal
Terminal Image Viewer is a small program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters. It’s free and open source software.
Read moreBalance – open source load balancing solution
Balance is a load balancing solution being a simple but powerful generic TCP proxy with round robin load balancing and failover capabilities. Its behaviour can be easily controlled at runtime using a simple command line syntax. Balance is free and
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Mark Text – simple and elegant open source Markdown editor
Mark Text is billed as a simple and elegant open-source markdown editor that focuses on speed and usability.
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Now and Then: What happened to 3 promising open source Linux terminal emulators?
This is a new feature that looks at the progress made by open source software which appeared highly promising. Have they reached production quality, are they best-of-breed in their field, or only remembered like fingerprints on an abandoned handrail? We look at 3 terminal emulators.
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