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System Administration

Essential System Tools: dust – more intuitive version of du

August 11, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

dust gives an instant overview of which directories are using disk space. It’s name derives from the du command and that dust is written in Rust.

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lfs

lfs – list your filesystems

August 6, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

lfs is an open source utility that lists your file systems improving on the venerable df utility in a number of ways.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Get Started with the Terminal – Part 9

July 12, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, CLI, Software

What’s a shell? What’s a terminal? The shell is a program that takes commands from the keyboard and gives them to the operating system to perform.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: duf – disk usage utility

June 25, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

duf is a simple disk usage utility that offers a more attractive representation than the classic df utility. It’s written in Go.

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mmtc

mmtc – minimal mpd terminal client

April 16, 2021 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

mmtc is billed as a minimal MPD terminal client that aims to be simple yet highly configurable.

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vimpc

vimpc – vi/vim inspired client for mpd

February 22, 2021 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

vimpc is a vi/vim inspired client for the Music Player Daemon (mpd). vimpc is free and open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: cornyjokes – corny jokes for the terminal

January 22, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Harmless fun with corny jokes in your terminal. Part of the Linux Candy series.

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ncmpcpp

ncmpcpp – featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc

January 18, 2021 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

ncmpcpp is a terminal-based MPD client with a user interface that seeks inspiration from ncmpc and shares a lot of similarities.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: BobRossQuotes – collection of quotes from Bob Ross

January 1, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Robert Norman Ross (Bob Ross) was an American painter, art instructor and television personality.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: chucknorris – Chuck Norris jokes in your terminal

December 21, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Raise a smile reading these awesome Chuck Norris jokes from your terminal.

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