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Magical Potions

8 Meritorious Free and Open Source Modelers

January 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

This article identifies 8 modelers that stand out from the others. We only feature free and open source software here.

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System Administration

Essential System Utilities: WTF – terminal dashboard

January 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

WTF (also known as ‘wtfutil’) is billed as “the personal information dashboard for your terminal”.

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10 Best Free and Open Source Shells

January 22, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

The shell is a program that takes commands from the keyboard and gives them to the operating system to perform. We recommend the finest free and open source shells.

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Software to help you sleep

Linux Candy: Relaxator – relax to soothing sounds

January 20, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Relaxator is a small utility that’s designed to do one thing — listen to soothing sounds. This free and open source utility is written in Vala.

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Text Editor

12 Best Free Vim-Like Text Editors

January 19, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Text editors remain a controversial area. Here are our recommended Vim-like text editors. They are all released under an open source license.

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PQMusic – minimalistic audio player

January 18, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

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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Text Editor

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Markdown Editors

January 17, 2023 Luke Baker Software, Utilities

Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber in 2004. We feature our recommended open source Markdown editors.

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3D character animation

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk MotionBuilder

January 16, 2023 Erik Karlsson Graphics, Software

MotionBuilder is 3D character animation software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Compression

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Compression Tools

January 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software available for Linux, we have compiled a list of 17 of the best free compression tools.

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Accountancy

9 Best Free and Open Source Accountancy Software

January 15, 2023 Steve Emms Financial, Software

Accountancy is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities.

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