Alpaca is open source software which lets you chat with local AI models.
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Category: Reviews
NoteSH – terminal-based sticky notes app
NoteSH is a note-taking app that simulates the traditional “sticky note” style stationery.
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Linux Candy: nook – plays Animal Crossing hourly themes
nook is an application which plays Animal Crossing hourly themes. Animal Crossing is a social simulation video game developed by Nintendo.
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Dissent – lightweight Discord app
Dissent (previously known as gtkcord4) is a third-party Discord client which bills itself as a “smooth, native experience on Linux desktops”.
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AudioTube – stream music from YouTube
AudioTube is software which lets you search and listen to YouTube Music without needing a web browser.
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Letterpress – create attractive ASCII art
Letterpress converts your images into a picture made up of ASCII characters. Save the output to a file, copy it, and change its resolution.
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Showtime – GNOME media player
Showtime is billed as a media player that lets you watch videos without any distraction. It’s written in Python.
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Calligraphy – turn text into ASCII banners
Calligraphy is a small utility which converts short texts into large, imposing banners made up of ASCII characters.
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XL Converter – easy-to-use image converter for modern formats
XL Converter is billed as an easy-to-use image converter for modern formats.
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Valuta – currency converter utility
Valuta is billed as a simple and fast conversion tool. It’s designed for people who want to frequently convert between different currencies.
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En Croissant – GUI chess toolkit
En Croissant is a cross-platform chess GUI that’s billed as powerful, customizable and easy to use.
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Railway – look up travel information
Railway lets you look up travel information for many different railways without needing to navigate through different websites.
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DreamQuest N95 Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption
For this instalment in the series, we examine the power consumption of the DreamQuest N95 Mini PC and compare it to three other machines.
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Oculante – hardware-accelerated image viewer
Oculante is billed as a fast and simple image viewer and image editor. This is free and open source software.
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Impression – create bootable drives
Impression is a straightforward and modern application to create bootable drives.
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DreamQuest N95 Mini PC Running Linux: Benchmarks
This article benchmarks the DreamQuest N95 Mini PC. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite unless otherwise stated.
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PreviewQt – preview all kinds of files
PreviewQt is a file previewer that strives to be lightweight, very fast, and simple. It supports a huge range of files and formats.
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electerm – terminal emulator and much more
electerm is a terminal emulator with bags of additional functionality. It’s free and open source software.
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BeeRef – simple reference image viewer
BeeRef is Python-based software which lets you quickly arrange your reference images and view them while you create
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Papers – document viewer for the GNOME desktop
Papers is a versatile document viewer for the GNOME desktop. You can view, search or annotate documents in many different formats.
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