termusic has added gapless playback and podcast support. Here’s our verdict on this terminal-based music player.
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Category: Reviews
Aqualung – advanced music player
Aqualung is billed as an advanced music player that plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles. Here’s our review.
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Linux Candy: pyjokes – one line jokes for programmers
pyjokes is a terminal based program that tells one line jokes for programmers.
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Essential System Utilities: WTF – terminal dashboard
WTF (also known as ‘wtfutil’) is billed as “the personal information dashboard for your terminal”.
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PQMusic – minimalistic audio player
PQMusic is billed as a minimalistic and easy to use open source audio player written in Python. Let’s see how it fares.
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BrosTrend 650Mbps AC5L Linux WiFi Adapter Review
This review looks at the BrosTrend AC650 AC5L Linux WiFi Adapter. The adapter has a theoretical maximum of 433Mbps transfer speed on 5GHz or 200MBps with 2.4GHz Wi-Fi.
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Excellent Utilities: Nushell – flexible cross-platform shell with a modern feel
Nushell is billed as a new type of shell. The aim is to adopt the Unix philosophy of shells where pipes connect command together.
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Excellent Utilities: Oh My Zsh – framework to manage your Zsh configuration
Oh My Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration.
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BrosTrend Linux WiFi Adapter AC1200 AC3L Review
This review looks at the BrosTrend Linux USB WiFi Adapter AC1200 (AC3L). Unlike most Wi-Fi sellers, BrosTrend provide Linux support for Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distros.
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Excellent Utilities: Zellij – terminal workspace with batteries included
Zellij is billed as “a workspace aimed at developers, ops-oriented people and anyone who loves the terminal”. It’s written in Rust.
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Excellent Utilities: Rnote – sketch and take handwritten notes
Rnote is a vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes and to annotate documents and pictures. Here’s our review.
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Musicly – simple music player
Musicly is billed as a simple and elegant music player. It’s cross-platform software written in JavaScript. Here’s Luke’s review.
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Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux – Part 5 – Multimedia
For this part in the series, we investigate the multimedia performance of the Lenovo T470 laptop including power management.
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Excellent Utilities: Cerebro – productivity tool
Cerebro is billed as a launcher to improve your productivity and efficiency. This is free and open source software.
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Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux – Part 4 – Benchmarks
This is a blog looking at a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux. In this article we benchmark the T470 against other machines.
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Excellent Utilities: KOReader – versatile document viewer
KOReader is a document viewer for a wide variety of file formats. It’s available for Linux, Android, and E Ink devices.
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BrosTrend Linux USB WiFi Adapter AC1200 AC1L Review
This review looks at the BrosTrend Linux USB WiFi Adapter AC1200. We test this USB 3 key under Ubuntu and Manjaro.
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Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux – Part 3 – Installing Manjaro
This is a blog looking at a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook. We take you through installing Manjaro on the T470
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Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux – Part 2 – Specifications
This is a blog looking at a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux. We check out the specs of the T470.
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Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux – Part 1
This is a blog looking at a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux. Refurbished laptop can offer a great solution.
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