This series looks at the best free and open source alternatives to products and services offered by Microsoft.
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Emulate the Oric home computer with Linux
The Oric-1 is a home computer that appeared in 1983 and was sold mainly in the UK and France. It was based on the 8-bit processor 6502A.
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Excellent Utilities: lsd – next gen ls command
lsd is billed as the next gen ls command. It’s free and open source software. Here’s our review of the program.
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A Week with Windows 11: Through the Looking-Glass
Lee Walker experiments with a beta of Windows 11 for a week, departing from his favourite Linux distros. How did he fare?
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Best Free Android Apps: Voice Audiobook Player – minimalistic audiobook player
Voice Audiobook Player is a minimalistic audiobook player for Android. It’s open source software. This app has been added to our Best Free Android Apps series, a compilation of the finest free apps for Android.
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Emulate the Amiga home computer with Linux
The Amiga is a family of personal computers. It’s the last truly great gaming home computer before the dominance of the PC and the 32-bit games consoles.
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Essential System Tools: dust – more intuitive version of du
dust gives an instant overview of which directories are using disk space. It’s name derives from the du command and that dust is written in Rust.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Mastodon Clients
Mastodon is a free and open source microblogging platform similar to Twitter, but with user privacy and decentralization in mind.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Manipulating Files – Part 13
This article explains the fundamentals of manipulating files from the shell. We explore cp, mv, rm and mkdir using Ubuntu 21.04.
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lfs – list your filesystems
lfs is an open source utility that lists your file systems improving on the venerable df utility in a number of ways.
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