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The most immediately apparent characteristic of orthodox file managers is that they have three windows, with the majority of screen space being taken up by two panels which are positioned symmetrically at the top of the screen. Here’s our recommendations.
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fd is a utility that searches for files in a directory hierarchy. Here’s our review.
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Tiny but useful tools that complement the cd command. Free and open source goodness.
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Linux has a number of proficient clipboard managers. Here’s our recommendations – all free and open source.
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A subtitle editor is software that lets users create and edit subtitles. Here’s our recommendations.
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Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber in 2004. Here’s our recommended open source Markdown editors.
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CPU-X is a similar tool to the Windows utility CPU-Z. Unlike CPU-Z, CPU-X is free and open source Linux software. Here’s our review.
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File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a popular and time-honored method of transferring files to and from a remote network site. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and uses separate control and data connections between the client and server applications. The FTP client connects to the FTP server, and enables the user to send and retrieves files from that server.
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Data compression is the process of storing data in a format that uses less space than the original representation would use. Compressing data can be very useful particularly in the field of communications as it enables devices to transmit or store data in fewer bits. Besides reducing transmission bandwidth, compression increases the amount of information that can be stored on a hard disk drive or other storage device.
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dupeGuru finds duplicate files in a given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. Here’s our review of this open source program.
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