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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Notepad

July 17, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Notepad is a simple text editor; it creates and edits plain text documents. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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JSON Tools

jqp – TUI playground to experiment with jq

July 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

jqp is a TUI tool that lets you explore with JSON objects in the terminal.

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Development Tools

7 Top Free and Open Source Dart Web Frameworks

July 17, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

Dart is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented, class defined, garbage-collected, scripting language using a C-style syntax that transcompiles optionally into JavaScript.

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Network

Kristall – small internet browser

July 17, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Kristall is a browser without support for css/js/wasm or graphical websites.

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Top 13 Web Server Performance Testing Tools

July 17, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

Web server benchmarking is a way of determining the performance of a web server. Here’s our recommended open source solutions.

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Email

meli – configurable and extensible e-mail client with sane defaults

July 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

meli is a configurable and extensible e-mail client with sane defaults. It is targeted at both new and power users of the terminal.

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Git Clients

hercules – gain advanced insights from Git repository history

July 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Hercules is a fast and highly customizable Git repository analysis engine. It’s written in the Go language.

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Network

Lagrange – GUI client for browsing Geminispace

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Lagrange is a GUI client for browsing Geminispace. It offers modern conveniences familiar from web browsers,

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lsix – ls for images

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Utilities

lsix is like the ls command but for images.The tool shows thumbnails in a terminal using sixel graphics. It’s written in Bash.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: jq – JSON processor

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to jq, a command-line JSON processor.

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JSON Tools

jaq – clone of the JSON data processing tool

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

jaq is a jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity. It aims to support a large subset of jq’s syntax and operations.

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Git Clients

git-xargs – update across multiple GitHub repositories with a single command

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-xargs is a command-line tool (CLI) for making updates across multiple GitHub repositories with a single command.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: navi – interactive cheatsheet tool

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

navi lets you to browse through cheatsheets (that you may write yourself or download from maintainers) and execute commands.

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System Administration

jdFlatpakSnapshot – create snapshot of a Flatpak’s data

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

jdFlatpakSnapshot is a tool which lets you create a snapshot of the data of a Flatpak.

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Linux Distributions

OmegaLinux – lightweight distribution based on Ubuntu

July 16, 2024 Erik Karlsson Distro

OmegaLinux is a lightweight operating system with LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) based on Ubuntu

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Git Clients

git-town – automate the creation, synchronization, shipping, and cleanup of Git branches

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-town automates the creation, synchronization, shipping, and cleanup of Git branches.

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Git Clients

git-toolbelt – suite of useful Git commands

July 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-toolbelt is a suite of useful Git commands that aid with scripting or every day command line usage.

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Web

wrk – HTTP benchmarking tool

July 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Web Apps

wrk is a modern HTTP benchmarking tool capable of generating significant load when run on a single multi-core CPU.

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Performance

k6 – modern load-testing tool

July 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Web Apps

k6 is a modern load testing tool for developers and testers in the DevOps era.

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OCR Tools

6 Best Free and Open Source OCR Screen Capture Tools

July 14, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

This article highlights OCR powered screen-capture tools to capture information instead of images. We only feature open source software here.

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