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Category: Utilities
Excellent System Utilities: Glances – CLI curses-based monitoring tool
Glances is a system administration tool that replaces a whole host of command-line utilities. Here’s our review of Glances.
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Linux Candy: Boxes – command line ASCII boxes
Boxes is a text filter which can draw ASCII art boxes around its input text. It can spice up news posting, emails, documenting files, and much more.
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ExifCleaner – image metadata tool
ExifCleaner lets you remove privacy-invading information from your photos. It’s a cross-platform tool that runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
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tint2 – simple and light open source taskbar
tint2 is a simple panel/taskbar made for window managers. It was specifically made for Openbox, a popular stacking window manager.
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Linux at Home: Research Your Family Tree
The Linux at Home feature continues with a great pastime – researching your family tree.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Manage your Personal Collections – Week 36
For this week’s blog, Luke looks at a few best-of-breed collection management programs. Free and open source goodness as usual.
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DownZemAll! – Qt-based download manager
This article reviews DownZemAll! (DZA!), an open source standalone download manager.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Terminal Emulators – Week 35
For this week’s blog, Luke examines terminal emulators on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Fraidycat – organize your content
Fraidycat acts as a central hub for internet content. It supports a wide variety of services including Twitter, YouTube, SoundCloud, web sites, and more.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Desktop Searching – Week 34
For this week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog, Luke puts a desktop search tool under the microscope.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Personal Information Managers – Week 33
For this week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog, Luke examines selected personal information managers.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Dear Diary – Week 32
Keeping a diary of your daily life is an activity that is held dear by many people. In this week’s blog, Luke checks out RedNotebook, Lifeograph, jrnl, and Org on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Linux at Home: Brew Great Beer with Linux
Step forward Linux software that’ll help you brew great beer. Cast aside guesswork, laborious calculations, and expensive disasters.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Calculators – Week 31
There’s sophisticated software available for the Raspberry Pi 4 which offers the ability to process complex mathematical functions, plot 2D and 3D graphs, and much more.
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Minase – SIXEL-based terminal file manager
Minase is a terminal file manager that uses libsixel, an encoder/decoder implementation for DEC SIXEL graphics. Minase is free and open source software.
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Linux at Home: DIY security solutions for the home
Here’s our recommended open source solutions to create your own Linux-based surveillance system. ZoneMinder, Motion, and Kerberos.io are featured.
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5 Best Free Linux Simple Backup Software
For Linux we recommend that home users install software that hides the complexity of doing backups. To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 best Linux simple backup software. Hopefully, there will be something here of interest to anyone who wants to take the effort out of ensuring the safety of their data.
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Excellent Utilities: fontpreview – search and preview fonts
Are you looking for a simple command-line tool that lets you search for fonts and preview them with no fuss and bother? fontpreview might just be the ticket.
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Linux at Home: Cross-stitching with Linux
In this article, we recommend some great open source software for cross-stitching. Create great patterns from image files. Simple to use.
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