xcowsay is a tiny utility that displays a cow with a speech bubble containing some text. It’s free and open source goodness.
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Category: Utilities
dutree – reclaim precious hard disk space
dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage analyzers?
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Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls
exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.
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gorss – simple RSS/Atom reader written in Golang
gorss is a simple free and open source RSS/Atom reader. It’s written in the Golang language. The program offers support for highlighting specific words.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – e-book Tools – Week 7
This week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog focuses on excellent free and open source e-book software that runs on this single-board computer.
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Excellent Utilities: ripgrep – recursively search directories for a regex pattern
ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. It’s free and open source software.
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Linux Candy: lolcat – rainbows and unicorns
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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Excellent Utilities: cheat.sh – community driven cheat sheet
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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Linux Candy: cacafire – Color ASCII Fire
The nights are drawing in. You want to feel warm and toasty. And nothing beats a log fire. cacafire displays burning ASCII art flames.
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Excellent Utilities: Ananicy – auto nice daemon
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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Linux Candy: ponysay – cowsay reimplemention for ponies
ponysay is a rewrite of cowsay with lots of full-color characters from My Little Pony. There’s over 400 characters and character combinations.
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Excellent Utilities: Liquid Prompt – adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
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
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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Hyper – terminal emulator built with web technologies
Hyper is one of the newer terminal emulators available. It’s built with web technologies – JavaScript, HTML, CSS. The goal of the project is to create a beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users, built on open web standards
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Linux Candy: ASCIIQuarium – embrace marine life from the terminal
ASCIIQuarium is a short Perl script that lets you embrace aquatic nature from your terminal. It’s an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.
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Linux Candy: WallGen – image generator tool
Let’s start our candy adventure with WallGen. It’s a small command-line utility that generates HQ poly wallpapers with only a few text arguments for inputs. Depending on these arguments, you can create shape-based patterns, randomly filled surfaces, and even image-based patterns.
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Excellent Utilities: peco – interactive filtering tool
peco is a CLI utility that filters text interactively. The tool is written in the Go programming language. It’s free and open source software.
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Excellent Utilities: LanguageTool – style and grammar checker for 30+ languages
LanguageTool is a free and open source proofreading tool for English, German, Spanish, Russian, and more than 25 other languages.
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Excellent Utilities: McFly – navigate through your shell history
McFly is a tiny utility that replaces the functionality offered by Bash’s ctrl-r with an intelligent search engine.
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Excellent Utilities: Ulauncher – Sublime application launcher for Linux
Ulauncher is a fast application launcher for Linux. It’s is written in Python, using GTK+. It’s free and open source software.
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