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Lucas Chess

Lucas Chess – play and train chess

July 2, 2021 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software

Lucas Chess is a chess GUI. It lets you play against lots of chess engines and train to improve your game.

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Best Free and Open Source Software

Best Free and Open Source Software – June 2021 Updates

July 1, 2021 Steve Emms Software

June 2021 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Installing Software – Part 7

June 30, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, Desktop, Software

We show you how easy it is to install software in Linux. This article is part of our Linux for Starters series.

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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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Retro

Emulate the Atari ST home computer with Linux

June 23, 2021 John O'Donnell Emulators, Software

The Atari ST was a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation. We recommend open source emulators for the Atari ST.

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Video Tools

Videomass – cross-platform GUI for FFmpeg and youtube-dl

June 18, 2021 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Videomass is a cross-platform GUI for FFmpeg and youtube-dl. Here’s our verdict on this open source program.

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Google Earth

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Earth Pro

June 14, 2021 Steve Emms Scientific, Software

Google Earth Pro lets you fly anywhere to see satellite imagery, 3D buildings, 3D trees, terrain, Street View, planets and much more. Here our recommended open source alternatives.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Fondo – wallpaper tool

June 11, 2021 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software

Fondo lets you quickly find beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash. Enjoy your new wallpaper with a single click.

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Retro

Emulate the Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer with Linux

June 9, 2021 John O'Donnell Emulators, Software

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. The name highlighted the machine’s color capabilities.

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Google Drive Alternatives

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Drive

June 7, 2021 Steve Emms Internet, Software

In this series, we’ll explore how you can migrate from Google without missing out on anything. We’ll recommend open source solutions.

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GabTag

GabTag – audio tagging tool

June 4, 2021 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

GabTag is an audio tagging tool written in GTK 3, which makes it friendly for GTK based desktop users. GabTag is free and open source.

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Retro

Emulate the Amstrad CPC home computer with Linux

June 2, 2021 John O'Donnell Emulators, Software

This series looks at emulating home computers. This article looks at emulating the Amstrad CPC range.

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Best Free and Open Source Software

Best Free and Open Source Software – April and May 2021 Updates

June 1, 2021 Steve Emms Software

April and May 2021 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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ebook tools

Foliate – simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

May 26, 2021 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Foliate is a simple and modern eBook viewer written in JavaScript. Here’s our review of this free and open source software.

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Retro

Emulate the Sinclair ZX81 home computer with Linux

May 21, 2021 John O'Donnell Emulators, Software

This series looks at emulating home computers. We start the series looking at the ZX81, a home computer produced by Sinclair Research from 1981.

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Audio Rippers

Digitize Your Music Collection including Tagging

May 14, 2021 John O'Donnell Multimedia, Software

We go through a simple way to digitize your CD collection using open source software.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Install Ubuntu from your USB stick – Part 4

May 12, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, Software

In this article we show you how to install Ubuntu 21.04 on your hard disk. It’s a slick process.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Make a Bootable Ubuntu USB Stick in Windows – Part 3

May 12, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, Software

One of the easiest ways to install Linux is by creating a bootable USB key. We will walk you through the process for the Ubuntu Desktop distro.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Choose a Distro – Part 2

May 7, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, Software

Which distro should you try? We offer advice for beginners to Linux.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Introduction

April 30, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, Software

Linux for Starters is a series that offers a gentle introduction to Linux for newcomers.

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