minnow is a chess engine with partial UCI compatibility, a 10×12 board representation with piece lists.
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Texel is a free chess engine
Texel applies many of the standard methods for computer chess programs, such as iterative deepening, negascout, aspiration windows…
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ttysterm is a simple serial terminal
ttysterm is a minimalist terminal program like *minicom* or *cu*.
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QCalcFileHash – hash calculator
QCalcFileHash is a calculator hash: SHA1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, MD5, CRC32, CRC8, and others.
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md5 – generate / check MD5 message digest
md5 is a command line utility which generates and verifies message digests (digital signatures) using the MD5 algorithm.
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ssterm – console-based serial port terminal
ssterm is a simple console-based serial port terminal featuring painless serial port configuration.
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CiteBib – generate a Bibtex or LaTeX bibliography
CiteBib generates a nice Bibtex or Latex bibliography according to the document content.
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dano – hashdeep/md5tree for media files
dano is a CLI tool for generating checksums of media bitstreams.
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b3sum – implementation of the BLAKE3 hash function
The b3sum Rust crate, which provides a command line interface. It uses multithreading by default
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xxHash – non-cryptographic hash algorithm
xxHash is an extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm, working at RAM speed limit.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: free
free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers and caches used by the kernel.
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Hashrat – hashing tool
Hashrat is a hash-generation utility that supports the md5, sha1, sha256, sha512, whirlpool, jh-22, and more.
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hashdir – checksum directories and files
hashdir aims to be the easiest way to hash a file/directory. This is useful when transferring files, archiving data, or detecting duplicates.
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Hash Calculator – calculates around 50 cryptographic hashes of strings and files
Hash Calculator is a console tool that can calculate about 50 cryptographic hashes of strings and files.
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ddogreen – smart power management
ddogreen is a simple service that automatically saves energy by switching your Linux laptop between high-performance and power-saving modes.
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fnt – apt for fonts
fnt is a tool to download and install fonts. It helps you to download vector fonts from Debian side, and Google Web Fonts.
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mpvc – mpc-like CLI tool for mpv
mpvc is a music player in POSIX-sh interfacing mpv from the shell and extras/goodies.
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16 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Music Players
All music libraries are different, and the right open source music player can make a world of difference – especially if you’ve a large collection. We recommend the best terminal-based music players.
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vmstat – reports virtual memory statistics
vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, traps, disks and cpu activity.
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zurichess – UCI chess engine
zurichess is a chess engine and a chess library. Its main goals are to be a relatively strong chess engine and to enable chess tools writing.
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