September 2020 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Category: Software
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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Now and Then: The Journey of 5 Open Source Linux Music Players
Back in 2016, we carried a feature looking at 5 music software that were highly promising. How did this merry band of open source software fare?
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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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Now and Then: The Fate of 7 Promising Free Linux Web Browsers
Now and Then is a series of articles that looks at how Linux software has fared over the years. This article picks up on 7 web browsers.
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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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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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Now and Then: What happened to 3 promising open source Linux terminal emulators?
This is a new feature that looks at the progress made by open source software which appeared highly promising. Have they reached production quality, are they best-of-breed in their field, or only remembered like fingerprints on an abandoned handrail? We look at 3 terminal emulators.
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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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Linux Candy – Free and Open Source Software that’s Fun
Linux Candy is a series of articles covering interesting eye candy software. We only feature open source software in this series.
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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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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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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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Vooki – lightweight image viewer offering fast image preview
One of our favorite adages is “A picture is worth a thousand words”. It refers to the notion that a still image can convey a complex idea. Images can portray a lot of information quickly and more efficiently than text.
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cointop – monitor cryptocurrencies in the terminal
cointop is a fast and lightweight interactive terminal based UI application for tracking and monitoring cryptocurrency coin stats in real-time.
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