What’s a shell? What’s a terminal? The shell is a program that takes commands from the keyboard and gives them to the operating system to perform.
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Category: Software
Haruna – video player using libmpv
Haruna is a modern-looking QML-based front-end to mpv. Here’s our review. Haruna is free and open source software.
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vizex – visualize disk space and disk usage
vizex is a command line interface program that shows how much free disk space you have. vizex is free and open source software.
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Lucas Chess – play and train chess
Lucas Chess is a chess GUI. It lets you play against lots of chess engines and train to improve your game.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – June 2021 Updates
June 2021 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Installing Software – Part 7
We show you how easy it is to install software in Linux. This article is part of our Linux for Starters series.
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Excellent Utilities: duf – disk usage utility
duf is a simple disk usage utility that offers a more attractive representation than the classic df utility. It’s written in Go.
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Emulate the Atari ST home computer with Linux
The Atari ST was a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation. We recommend open source emulators for the Atari ST.
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Videomass – cross-platform GUI for FFmpeg and youtube-dl
Videomass is a cross-platform GUI for FFmpeg and youtube-dl. Here’s our verdict on this open source program.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Earth Pro
Google Earth Pro lets you fly anywhere to see satellite imagery, 3D buildings, 3D trees, terrain, Street View, planets and much more. Here our recommended open source alternatives.
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Linux Candy: Fondo – wallpaper tool
Fondo lets you quickly find beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash. Enjoy your new wallpaper with a single click.
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Emulate the Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer with Linux
The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. The name highlighted the machine’s color capabilities.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Drive
In this series, we’ll explore how you can migrate from Google without missing out on anything. We’ll recommend open source solutions.
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GabTag – audio tagging tool
GabTag is an audio tagging tool written in GTK 3, which makes it friendly for GTK based desktop users. GabTag is free and open source.
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Emulate the Amstrad CPC home computer with Linux
This series looks at emulating home computers. This article looks at emulating the Amstrad CPC range.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – April and May 2021 Updates
April and May 2021 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Emulate the Sinclair ZX81 home computer with Linux
This series looks at emulating home computers. We start the series looking at the ZX81, a home computer produced by Sinclair Research from 1981.
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Digitize Your Music Collection including Tagging
We go through a simple way to digitize your CD collection using open source software.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Install Ubuntu from your USB stick – Part 4
In this article we show you how to install Ubuntu 21.04 on your hard disk. It’s a slick process.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Make a Bootable Ubuntu USB Stick in Windows – Part 3
One of the easiest ways to install Linux is by creating a bootable USB key. We will walk you through the process for the Ubuntu Desktop distro.
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