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Retro

Emulate the Sinclair ZX80 home computer with Linux

February 13, 2024 John O'Donnell Emulators, Software

The Sinclair ZX80 was launched in January 1980. It was available in kit form for £79.95, and as a ready-built version priced at £99.95.

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Configuring music

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Audio MIDI Setup

February 10, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Software

Audio MIDI Setup is a utility to describe the configuration of your MIDI devices. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Task Manager

Dooit – TUI to-do manager

February 6, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Reviews, Software

Dooit is billed as a todo manager that you didn’t ask for, but needed. It’s free and open source software written in Python.

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Task Manager

Aion-Task – cyclic TODO task manager

February 2, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Software

Aion-Task is a free and open source cyclic TODO task manager.

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2024 Updates

February 1, 2024 Steve Emms Software

January 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Best Free Window Managers

LeftWM – window manager for adventurers

February 1, 2024 Steve Emms Software

LeftWM is designed to do one thing and to do that one thing well: be a window manager.

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ONLYOFFICE Docs 8.0

Meet ONLYOFFICE Docs v8.0: fillable PDF forms, RTL support, updated ChatGPT plugin and more

January 31, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

A first major release in 2024 of ONLYOFFICE Docs with a bunch of new features.

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Files

Yazi – terminal file manager

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Yazi is billed as a blazingly fast TUI file manager with asynchronous support. It’s written in Rust.

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Apple Numbers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Numbers

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

Apple Numbers is a spreadsheet application which uses a free-form “canvas” approach. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Main Menu

Synology Hyper Backup Explorer – desktop tool

January 13, 2024 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews, Software

Hyper Backup Explorer is a desktop tool for browsing, decrypting, and extracting different versions of backup data in Hyper Backup repositories.

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Adobe InCopy

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe InCopy

January 12, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

Adobe InCopy is a fully-fledged word processor that enables you to put together standalone text documents. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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PDF

QPDF – command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files

January 9, 2024 Steve Emms Software

QPDF is a C++ library and set of programs that inspect and manipulate the structure of PDF files.

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Spreadsheets

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Sheets

January 7, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

Google Sheets is a spreadsheet program included as part of the free, proprietary Google Docs Editors suite. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Adobe Lightroom

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Lightroom Classic

January 5, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Adobe Lightroom Classic is a creative image organization and image manipulation software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software: December 2023 Updates

December 31, 2023 Steve Emms Software

December 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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News

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple News

December 29, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Apple News is a news aggregator application that helps you to stay up to date with news and information. We recommend FOSS alternatives.

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Christmas presents

LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2023

December 24, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, Software

We’ve trawled through our statistics and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2023.

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Google Translate Alternatives

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Translate

December 23, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service that translates text and websites from one language into another.

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Christmas

Linux Candy: christmasfetch – a festive command-line utility

December 22, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

As Christmas is fast approaching, it’s the right time for a small festive utility. Step forward christmasfetch.

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Asustor ADM 4.2

ASUSTOR Data Master 4.2 (ADM OS): App Central

December 20, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews, Software

App Central is software that’s part of ASUSTOR Data Master (ADM) and offers a rich array of applications to install on your NAS device.

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