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Excellent Utilities: lnav – the log file navigator

April 22, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

This is the second in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities including tools that boost your productivity, help you manage your workflow, and lots more besides. For this article, we’ll put lnav under the spotlight.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: Unison – Excellent Console and Graphical File Synchronization Software

April 3, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

Unison is a file-synchronization tool that allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.

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Excellent Utilities: tmux – terminal multiplexer software

April 1, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

This is the first in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities. For the first article, we put tmux under the spotlight.

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Filemanagers

Shallot – Qt-based file manager with plugin interface

March 20, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Shallot is billed as a file manager with the maximum degree of flexibility and customization. It’s Qt-based. We put it to the test together with 15 other Qt-based file managers.

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File Managers

9 Admirable Graphical File Managers

March 18, 2019 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

We covered many high quality file managers in our Qt File Managers Roundup and GTK File Managers Roundups. But there are graphical non-Qt and non-GTK file managers available. Here’s our favorites.

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File Managers

Excellent GTK File Managers to Manage your Filesystem

March 4, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

We recently visited 15 Qt file managers. This article reviews 15 Gtk file managers.

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File Managers

Qt File Managers Roundup: Excellent Ways to Manage your Filesystem

February 25, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

It makes sense to use Qt based software with KDE. Benefits include memory savings, and better integration with the KDE desktop. However, if you prefer other desktop environments, these Qt file managers still work admirably. We review 15 Qt file managers.

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Latte-Dock

Latte – Excellent KDE Dock based on Plasma Frameworks

February 15, 2019 John O'Donnell Desktop, Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Latte is a dock based on Plasma frameworks that aims to offer an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and KDE Plasma widgets. It animates its contents by using parabolic zoom effect and tries to be as unobtrusive is possible.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: QJournalctl – Graphical User Interface for systemd’s journalctl

February 13, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

This is the latest in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities.

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Crow Translate – free desktop translation software

January 30, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

Crow Translate bills itself as a cross-platform, lightweight, translator supporting 117 different languages.

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