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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13 Excellent Free Books to Learn Prolog
Prolog is a general purpose, declarative, logic programming language, often associated with artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, intelligent database retrieval, and problem solving. Read about our recommended free Prolog books.
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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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7 Excellent Free Books to Learn Scheme
Scheme is a general-purpose, functional, programming language descended from Lisp and Algol. It is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of Lisp.
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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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16 Excellent Free Books to Learn Lisp
Lisp (derives from “LISt Processing”) is one of the oldest programming languages. It was invented in 1958, with the language being conceived by John McCarthy and is based on his paper “Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine”.
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cmus – free terminal-based audio player
This review looks at an alternative to musikcube. It’s called cmus. It shares many similarities with musikcube. Both are designed to run on a text-only user interface, reducing the resources required to run the application.
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Sayonara Player – small, clear and fast audio player
Sayonara is a small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework. It uses GStreamer as audio backend.
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7 Excellent Free Books to Learn Logo
The Logo Programming Language, a dialect of Lisp, was designed as a tool for learning. It features interactivity, modularity, extensibility, with flexibility of data types.
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8 Excellent Free Books to Learn Fortran
Fortran (Formula translation) is a multi-paradigm programming language invented by John Backus of IBM in the 1950s. Here’s our recommended free books.
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Musicalypse – audio player and server built with Web technologies
Musicalypse is cross-platform software that offers both an audio player and server functionality. It’s built with web technologies.
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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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11 Excellent Free Books to Learn Scala
Scala is a modern, object-functional, multi-paradigm, Java-based programming and scripting language that’s released under the Apache License 2.0. It blends functional and object-oriented programming models.
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3 Excellent Free Books to Learn COBOL
COBOL is an acronym which stands for Common Business-Oriented Language. The US Department of Defense, in a conference, formed CODASYL (Conference on Data Systems Language) to develop a language for meeting business data processing needs which is now known as
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Manage your Photos: JPEG Photo Compression
JPEG is an image file format that’s been around since the early 1990s, and it uses lossy compression. We compare and contrast Guetzli, MozJPEG, and Lepton. They are all open source tools that run from the command-line.
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Essential System Tools: hyperfine – command-line benchmarking tool
hyperfine is a command-line benchmarking tool. It’s designed to measure the full execution time of a program. This open source tool is written in Rust.
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23 Excellent Free Books to Learn Perl
The popularity of a book is influenced by personal feelings, tastes, and opinions. Programming books accord to this general rule. There is a wide range of Perl books. Here’s our recommended free Perl books.
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5 Excellent Free Books to Learn Pascal
Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language designed in the late 1960s by Niklaus Wirth to teach structured programming using subprograms called procedures and functions.
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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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