Back in early 2008, we published a feature recommending the best 6 lean desktop environments. How did they fare?
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Category: Software
Linux Candy: XDecorations – Holiday lights and more
XDecorations is a small utility that lets you add decorations to your desktop. It’s our latest addition to the fun Linux Candy series.
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Excellent Utilities: fd – superior alternative to the venerable find
fd is a utility that searches for files in a directory hierarchy. Here’s our review.
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Now and Then: The Fate of 5 Open Source Integrated Development Environments
In 2014, we identified 5 promising free and open source Integrated Development Environments. How did they fare?
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Best Free and Open Source Software – September 2020 Updates
September 2020 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Excellent System Utilities: CPU-X – system profiler tool
CPU-X is a similar tool to the Windows utility CPU-Z. Unlike CPU-Z, CPU-X is free and open source Linux software. Here’s our review.
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dupeGuru – find duplicate files
dupeGuru finds duplicate files in a given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. Here’s our review of this open source program.
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Now and Then: The Journey of 5 Open Source Linux Music Players
Back in 2016, we carried a feature looking at 5 music software that were highly promising. How did this merry band of open source software fare?
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Musiko – cross-platform music player
Musiko is a free to use, open source and cross platform music player. It supports a good range of audio formats including both lossy and lossless formats. Here’s our review.
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Apostrophe – distraction free Markdown editor
Apostrophe is a distraction free Markdown editor written in Python. Apostrophe is free and open source software.
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