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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: uname

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to uname, a command-line utility that prints system information.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: who

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to who, a command that shows who is logged on to the system.

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tap is a terminal-based music player with fuzzy-finder

September 11, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

tap is a terminal-based music player that lets you jump to any album with fuzzy-finder shortcuts.

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Understanding RNG (Random Number Generators) in Linux-based Casino Games

September 11, 2023 John O'Donnell Games

Ever wondered how online casino games ensure that each spin, shuffle, or roll is entirely unpredictable? The secret sauce is the Random Number Generator (RNG).

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Character Animator

September 8, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

Character Animator is software that combines real-time live motion-capture with a multi-track recording system.

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Gomu – Go Music Player

September 6, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Gomu is billed as an intuitive, powerful CLI music player. This is free and open source software written in Go.

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Machine Learning in Linux: Piper

September 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Scientific, Software

Piper is billed as a fast, local neural text to speech system. It’s free and open source software written in C++ and Python.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to IBM Watson

September 5, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Software

IBM Watson is a data analytics processor that uses natural language processing, technology that analyzes human speech for meaning and syntax.

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Best Free and Public DNS Servers

September 5, 2023 John O'Donnell Internet

This article focuses on four user-friendly DNS servers: Gcore Public DNS, OpenDNS, Quad9, and 1.1.1.1 Public DNS.

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Best Free and Open Source Music Players

RustPlayer is a local audio player and m3u8 radio player

September 2, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

RustPlayer is an audio player that plays locally hosted files. It’s also a radio player.

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software August 2023 Updates

August 31, 2023 Steve Emms Software

August 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning in Linux: ImaginAIry – Pythonic generation of images

August 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific, Software

ImaginAIry is Python-based software for generating Stable Diffusion images.

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Awesome Linux Game Tools: noise-suppression-for-voice

August 28, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

noise-suppression-for-voice is a noise suppression plugin based on RNNoise, a noise suppression library based on a recurrent neural network.

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Archive Manager

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel WinZip

August 27, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

WinZip is a file archiver and compressor. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

Walk is a simple and minimalistic terminal navigator

August 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

walk is billed as a terminal file manager and a terminal navigator.

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Automation

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Script Editor

August 26, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Script Editor (also known as AppleScript Editor) is a code editor that lets you create powerful scripts, tools and even apps.

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grump – CLI audio player written in Go

August 26, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

grump is a billed as a very minimal CLI audio player. It’s free and open source software written in the Go language.

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Application Launchers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Launchpad

August 26, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Apple Launchpad is a central location where you can view all your apps and easily open them. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Internet Forum Software

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Groups

August 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Software

Google Groups is a service that provides discussion groups for people sharing common interests. We recommend the best self-hosted alternatives.

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Machine Learning in Linux: GodMode – AI Chat Browser

August 25, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, Software

GodMode is billed as a dedicated chat browser giving instant access to the full webapps of ChatGPT, Claude 2, Perplexity, Bing, and other AI services.

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