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Archive Manager

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Archive Managers

October 25, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

Linux has a good range of open source archive managers. Here’s our pick.

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Web Browsers

5 Best Free and Open Source Console Web Browsers

October 21, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

A web browser is the quintessential desktop application. We recommend the finest free and open source console based web browsers.

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Utility

6 Best Free and Open Source Console Based Network ‘top’ Tools

October 6, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Software, System Software

Out of the myriad of utilities that are available for Linux, top is a troubleshooting tool that often comes up in conversation.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

9 Best Free and Open Source Command Line Navigation Tools

October 3, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

Tiny but useful tools that complement the cd command. Free and open source goodness.

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International Space Station

TermTrack – Track satellites in your terminal

October 2, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific

TermTrack is a terminal-based program that lets you track the orbits of artificial satellites. The program is written in Python.

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System Administration

Excellent System Utilities: CPU-X – system profiler tool

September 30, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

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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Terminal Session Recording

Best Free and Open Source Terminal Session Recording

September 21, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

Console screencast software (also known as terminal recorder) lets you capture your terminal. Here’s our recommended open source software.

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Terminal Image Viewer

Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal

September 18, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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.

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Art

Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools

September 17, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures put together from characters defined by the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) standard.

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Diff Tools

9 Best Free Console-Based Diff Tools

August 29, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

File comparison compares the contents of computer files, finding their common contents and their differences. The result of the comparison is often known as a diff. Here’s our recommended free and open source console-based diff tools.

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