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Excellent Utilities: fkill – kill processes quick and easy

June 24, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

One thing a newcomer to Linux learns quickly is that they’re never limited to a single way of performing a task. And killing processes is no exception. In this article, we’ll look at an alternative to kill. It’s called fkill. It’s billed as offering a quicker and easier way to terminating processes.

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Goodvibes – internet radio player

June 21, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Goodvibes is billed as a lightweight internet radio player offering a simple way to access your favorite radio stations. Here’s my review of this open source radio player.

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Curseradio – curses interface for browsing and playing internet radio

June 14, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Curseradio is a curses interface for browsing and playing an OPML directory of internet radio streams.

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Excellent Utilities: mdless – formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files

June 10, 2019 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Utilities

mdless is a utility that provides a formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files in a console. The software is free and open source.

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StreamTuner2 – internet radio station and video browser

June 7, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Streamtuner2 is a GUI for browsing internet radio directories, music collections, and video services – grouped by genres or categories. It runs your preferred audio player or streamripper for recording.

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Excellent Utilities: Abricotine – open source Markdown editor

June 5, 2019 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Utilities

Abricotine is an open source, cross-platform Markdown editor built for the desktop with inline preview functionality.

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MapSCII – console based Braille and ASCII map renderer

June 3, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

MapSCII is a Node.js based Vector Tile to Braille and ASCII renderer for xterm-compatible terminals. It’s billed as the whole world in your console.

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Real Linux Desktop Experience with X410 and WSL?

May 29, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Office, Productivity, Reviews, Software

X410 is an X Window server for Windows 10. When you want to use X Window GUI apps on remote servers, simply run X410 and connect to your server via SSH with X11 forwarding. Here’s our review of X410 using ‘The Windows Subsystem for Linux’.

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Internet-Radio

PyRadio – curses based internet radio player

May 24, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

PyRadio is a command line internet radio player written in the Python programming language. Here’s my assessment of this open source software.

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Internet-Radio

Radiotray-NG – rustic internet radio player

May 8, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Radiotray-NG is a continuation of the discontinued Radio Tray. It seeks to embrace the same philosophy, fixing some of its flaws, and adding a few new features along the way.

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