exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.
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Category: Reviews
Linux Candy: nyancat – Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat Animation
nyancat is an animated, color, ANSI-text program that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. It’s free and open source candy.
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Golly – exploring cellular automata like the Game of Life
Golly is a free and open source cross-platform application for exploring Conway’s Game of Life and many other types of cellular automata.
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gorss – simple RSS/Atom reader written in Golang
gorss is a simple free and open source RSS/Atom reader. It’s written in the Golang language. The program offers support for highlighting specific words.
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Gemini – audio player with wallpaper changer
Gemini is a simple audio player that sports an integrated wallpaper changer.
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Excellent Utilities: ripgrep – recursively search directories for a regex pattern
ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. It’s free and open source software.
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Linux Candy: CMatrix – terminal based “The Matrix”
CMatrix is an ncurses program that simulates the display from “The Matrix”, and is based on the screensaver from the movie’s website.
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nuclear – desktop music player focused on free streaming
nuclear is a modern music player (Electron based) focused on streaming from free sources. The software is released under a free and open source license.
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Essential System Tools: TLP – power management package
If you use Linux on a notebook, TLP is for you. It saves laptop battery power with a wide variety of features. There’s processor frequency scaling, Wifi power saving, hard disk advanced power management, GPU power management and much more.
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Linux Candy: lolcat – rainbows and unicorns
lolcat applies rainbow colors to text output in the terminal. It works in a similar way to the venerable cat command but jazzes things up.
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