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Linux Candy: CMatrix – terminal based “The Matrix”

November 22, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

CMatrix is an ncurses program that simulates the display from “The Matrix”, and is based on the screensaver from the movie’s website.

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nuclear

nuclear – desktop music player focused on free streaming

November 18, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

nuclear is a modern music player (Electron based) focused on streaming from free sources. The software is released under a free and open source license.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: TLP – power management package

November 11, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

If you use Linux on a notebook, TLP is for you. It saves laptop battery power with a wide variety of features. There’s processor frequency scaling, Wifi power saving, hard disk advanced power management, GPU power management and much more.

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Linux Candy: lolcat – rainbows and unicorns

November 4, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

lolcat applies rainbow colors to text output in the terminal. It works in a similar way to the venerable cat command but jazzes things up.

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Siren

Siren – text-based audio player

October 28, 2019 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Siren is a text-based audio player with one of the lowest system footprints. Luke Baker reviews this free and open source music player.

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Excellent Utilities: cheat.sh – community driven cheat sheet

October 21, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

cheat.sh offers unified access to the best community driven documentation repositories of the world via curl/browser interface. There’s also an installable utility for more flexibility.

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starship

starship – elegant cross-shell prompt at your fingertips

October 14, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

starship is an intelligent and non-intrusive prompt for anyone who spends time at a shell. It’s free and open source software. Read our verdict.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Ananicy – auto nice daemon

October 4, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Ananicy is a shell daemon created to manage processes’ IO and CPU priorities, with community-driven set of rules for popular applications. Here’s our review of this free and open source program.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Liquid Prompt – adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh

September 23, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Liquid Prompt gives you a nicely displayed prompt with useful information when you need it. It shows you what you need when you need it.

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Safe Eyes – protect your eyes from eye strain

September 20, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Safe Eyes protect your eyes from eye strain using a simple and extensible break reminder. It’s designed to reduce and stop repetitive strain injury. It’s not just your eyes that need to take a break.

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