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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft’s Products and Services

August 20, 2021 Steve Emms Software

This series looks at the best free and open source alternatives to products and services offered by Microsoft.

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Retro

Emulate the Oric home computer with Linux

August 20, 2021 John O'Donnell Emulators, Software

The Oric-1 is a home computer that appeared in 1983 and was sold mainly in the UK and France. It was based on the 8-bit processor 6502A.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: lsd – next gen ls command

August 18, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

lsd is billed as the next gen ls command. It’s free and open source software. Here’s our review of the program.

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Retro

Emulate the Amiga home computer with Linux

August 13, 2021 John O'Donnell Emulators, Software

The Amiga is a family of personal computers. It’s the last truly great gaming home computer before the dominance of the PC and the 32-bit games consoles.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: dust – more intuitive version of du

August 11, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

dust gives an instant overview of which directories are using disk space. It’s name derives from the du command and that dust is written in Rust.

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Mastodon

7 Best Free and Open Source Mastodon Clients

August 10, 2021 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Mastodon is a free and open source microblogging platform similar to Twitter, but with user privacy and decentralization in mind.

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lfs

lfs – list your filesystems

August 6, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

lfs is an open source utility that lists your file systems improving on the venerable df utility in a number of ways.

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Goggles Music Manager

Goggles Music Manager – music collection manager and player

August 3, 2021 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Goggles Music Manager is free and open source software that lets you play and organize your music collection.

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Best Free and Open Source Software

Best Free and Open Source Software – July 2021 Updates

August 1, 2021 Steve Emms Software

July 2021 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Mastodon

Tootle – GTK client for Mastodon

July 30, 2021 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Software

Tootle is a multi-functional Mastodon client that is well designed and intuitive to use.

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