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Essential System Utilities: WTF – terminal dashboard

January 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

WTF (also known as ‘wtfutil’) is billed as “the personal information dashboard for your terminal”.

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Linux Around The World: USA – Utah

January 21, 2023 Erik Karlsson Blog

We cover events and user groups that are running in the US state of Utah. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series.

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Linux Candy: Relaxator – relax to soothing sounds

January 20, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Relaxator is a small utility that’s designed to do one thing — listen to soothing sounds. This free and open source utility is written in Vala.

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PQMusic – minimalistic audio player

January 18, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

PQMusic is billed as a minimalistic and easy to use open source audio player written in Python. Let’s see how it fares.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk MotionBuilder

January 16, 2023 Erik Karlsson Graphics, Software

MotionBuilder is 3D character animation software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Linux Around The World: USA – Missouri

January 14, 2023 Erik Karlsson Blog

We cover user groups that are running in the US state of Missouri. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple TextEdit

January 13, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple TextEdit is a free and open source basic word processor and text editor. We recommend the best alternatives.

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BrosTrend 650Mbps AC5L Linux WiFi Adapter Review

January 11, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

This review looks at the BrosTrend AC650 AC5L Linux WiFi Adapter. The adapter has a theoretical maximum of 433Mbps transfer speed on 5GHz or 200MBps with 2.4GHz Wi-Fi.

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Excellent Utilities: Nushell – flexible cross-platform shell with a modern feel

January 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Nushell is billed as a new type of shell. The aim is to adopt the Unix philosophy of shells where pipes connect command together.

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Programming Tutorials

Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Zig

January 7, 2023 Erik Karlsson Programming, Tutorials

Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

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Best Free Android Apps: KOReader – document viewer

January 6, 2023 Eilidih Parris Android

KOReader is a document viewer for a wide variety of file formats. It’s available for Linux, Android, and E Ink devices.

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Excellent Utilities: Oh My Zsh – framework to manage your Zsh configuration

January 4, 2023 Erik Karlsson CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Oh My Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration.

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Best Free and Open Source Software

Best Free and Open Source Software – December 2022 Updates

January 1, 2023 Steve Emms Software

December 2022 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Wi-Fi

BrosTrend Linux WiFi Adapter AC1200 AC3L Review

December 30, 2022 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

This review looks at the BrosTrend Linux USB WiFi Adapter AC1200 (AC3L). Unlike most Wi-Fi sellers, BrosTrend provide Linux support for Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distros.

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Book

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Contacts

December 28, 2022 Steve Emms Productivity, Software

Google Contacts is a contact management service. It’s available on the sidebar of Gmail, a web app, and for Android. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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WOW!

Excellent Utilities: Zellij – terminal workspace with batteries included

December 26, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Zellij is billed as “a workspace aimed at developers, ops-oriented people and anyone who loves the terminal”. It’s written in Rust.

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Season’s Greetings from LinuxLinks

December 25, 2022 Steve Emms Annoucements

Everyone involved at LinuxLinks wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

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9 Best Free Linux e-book Tools – Updated 2022

December 24, 2022 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Linux has a good range of open source software which helps users to organize their e-book collection, catch up on a novel, or even to create and publish their own e-books.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Rnote – sketch and take handwritten notes

December 23, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Rnote is a vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes and to annotate documents and pictures. Here’s our review.

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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2022

December 22, 2022 Steve Emms Software, System Software

We’ve trawled through our statistics and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2022.

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