viu is different from the vast majority of image viewers. It’s a small command-line program to view images from the terminal.
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Category: CLI
13 Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to the Top Utility
top is a small, venerable utility that offers a dynamic real-time view of a running system. We identify alternatives to top that offer more control in managing processes on a running system.
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Essential System Tools: btop++ – resource monitor
btop++ is an alternative to top. It’s a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
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Excellent Utilities: horcrux – file splitter with encryption and redundancy
horcrux is an open source tool that’s designed to split files and keep them secure with encryption.
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termusic – terminal-based music player
termusic is a music player written in Rust. Here’s our review of this open source software.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Emoji Tools
An emoji is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. We recommend terminal based emoji tools.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Text-Based Git Clients
Here’s our recommended text-based Git clients, captured in a legendary LinuxLinks chart. We only feature free and open source software here.
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Linux Candy: terminal-parrot – party parrot time
terminal-parrot displays a parrot in your terminal. There’s even an Australian option for those living down under!
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Excellent Utilities: croc – securely transfer files and folders
croc is a command-line utility to send files and folders from one computer to another.
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Quoter – The Console Based Stock Quote Tool
Quoter is a command-line tool that fetches stock prices. It’s written in Java and published under an open source license.
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