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Best Free and Open Source Software – Utilities

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering compression tools, system cleaning, password managers, font tools, essential utilities.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Books

June 2, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple Books is an e-book reading and store application. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tar

June 2, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We showcase free and open source alternatives to tar, the most widely used archiving utility in Linux systems.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sed

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative open source tools to sed, a stream editor for filtering and transforming text.

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Administrators in action

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sudo

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to sudo, a command which lets you execute a command as another user.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dig

May 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to dig. This is a DNS lookup utility.

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Flashcards

11 Best Linux Flashcard Software

May 28, 2023 Steve Emms Education, Productivity, Software, Utilities

Flashcards are one of the best tools for memorizing information. This is partly because of their versatility. They can help teach multiplication skills, learn a foreign language, recall facts, historical dates, in fact anything that can be learned in an intuitive way.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: mv

May 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to mv.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: locate

May 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to locate.

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Documents

7 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls

May 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

When invoked without any arguments, ls lists the files in the current working directory. We recommend some great replacements.

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