XDecorations is a small utility that lets you add decorations to your desktop. It’s our latest addition to the fun Linux Candy series.
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Category: Reviews
TermTrack – Track satellites in your terminal
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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Excellent System Utilities: CPU-X – system profiler tool
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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dupeGuru – find duplicate files
dupeGuru finds duplicate files in a given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. Here’s our review of this open source program.
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Musiko – cross-platform music player
Musiko is a free to use, open source and cross platform music player. It supports a good range of audio formats including both lossy and lossless formats. Here’s our review.
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Apostrophe – distraction free Markdown editor
Apostrophe is a distraction free Markdown editor written in Python. Apostrophe is free and open source software.
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Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal
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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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – SNES emulation – Week 11
For this week’s blog, Luke checks out how Snes9x performs on the AWOW AK41 Mini PC. Snes9x is an emulator for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System 16-bit home video game console.
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Mark Text – simple and elegant open source Markdown editor
Mark Text is billed as a simple and elegant open-source markdown editor that focuses on speed and usability.
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Cryptonose – Cryptocurrency trading tool
Cryptonose is a small open source utility that might be helpful if you’re interested in trading cryptocurrency. The tool supports 3 exchanges: Binance, Bitfinex and Poloniex.
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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – TeamViewer with Linux – Week 10
TeamViewer offers remote access to a wide variety of operating systems.. Here’s my findings on the AWOW AK41 Mini PC.
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Linux Candy: eDEX-UI – sci-fi computer terminal emulator and system monitor
eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor that looks and feels like a sci-fi computer interface.
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BpyTOP – resource monitor tool
BpyTOP is a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. It’s a Python port of bashtop. Here’s our review.
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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – Astronomy – Week 9
For this week’s blog, we look at how well the most popular open source astronomy programs run on the AWOW AK41.
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Digital Assets – cryptocurrencies prices and statistics
Digital Assets is a GUI that lets you monitor movements in the prices of cryptocurrencies. The program is written in Python.
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Linux Candy: Variety – wallpaper changer software
Variety is a wallpaper manager for Linux systems. It supports numerous desktops and wallpaper sources, including local files and online services: Flickr, Wallhaven, Unsplash, and more.
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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – OBS Studio – Week 8
OBS Studio is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. We run OBS Studio on the AWOW AK41 Mini PC and see how it performs.
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Annie – video downloader built with Go
Annie is an open source video downloader. It’s written in the Go programming language. Here’s our verdict on this tool.
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Linux Candy: pipes.sh – animated pipes terminal screensaver
pipes.sh is a bash script which draws randomly pathed pipes over the terminal. pipes.sh is free and open source software. Harmless fun, and a screensaver.
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AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – Home Computer Emulators – Week 7
For this week’s blog on the AWOW AK41, Luke looks at emulating home computers such as the Amiga, Atari ST, and the ZX Spectrum. Heady days in the early 1980s.
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