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Encryption

zuluCrypt – simple, feature rich and powerful solution for hard drive encryption

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

zuluCrypt is a simple, feature rich and powerful solution for hard drives encryption. This is free and open source software.

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Encryption

cryptsetup – disk encryption

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Cryptsetup offers a command-line interface to set up cryptographic volumes. This is achieved using the Linux kernel device mapper target dm-crypt.

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Encryption

dm-crypt – kernel device-mapper crypto target

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Security

dm-crypt is a transparent disk encryption subsystem in the kernel that provides a generic way to create virtual layers of block devices.

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Clipboard

wl-clipboard – Wayland clipboard utilities

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

wl-clipboard implements two command-line Wayland clipboard utilities, wl-copy and wl-paste. Free and open source software.

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Clipboard

Clipboard – cut, copy, and paste anything

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Clipboard is billed as “the power tool that saves you time and effort”. This is free and open source software.

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Revision Control

BitKeeper – tool for distributed revision control

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

BitKeeper is a fast, enterprise-ready, distributed SCM that scales up to very large projects and down to tiny ones.

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Virtual Ocean – integrates GeoMapApp tool suite with NASA World Wind

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Virtual Ocean integrates the GeoMapApp tool suite with the NASA World Wind 3-D earth browser to create a powerful platform.

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EDA

Fritzing – free tool to create interactive electronics

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Fritzing is a software tool to support designers, artists and hobbyists to work creatively with interactive electronics.

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HDR

Hugin – panorama photo stitcher software

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Hugin is a panorama photo stitching program. The resulting image can span 360 degrees. Hugin creates very high resolution pictures.

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Synthesizers

Helm – polyphonic synth with lots of modulation

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Helm is a software synthesizer. Helm is released as a standalone synthesizer or as an LV2, VST, VST3 or AU plugin.

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Compression

XZ Utils – data compression software

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

XZ Utils is open source general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio.

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Images

Lepton – image compression tool and file format

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Lepton is a tool and file format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%.

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Linux

Tabby – terminal emulator for modern age

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Tabby (formerly Terminus) is a highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client. Tabby has a large feature set.

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Linux

urxvt – fork of the well known terminal emulator rxvt

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

rxvt-unicode (commonly known as urxvt) is a modern, Unicode-aware, colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm replacement.

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Linux

Hyper – cross-platform terminal built on open web standards

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

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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Linux

Tilix – tiling terminal emulator using GTK+ 3

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget and conforms to GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.

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Linux

Guake – drop-down terminal for GNOME

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Guake is a dropdown terminal made for the GNOME desktop environment. Guake’s style of window is based on an FPS game.

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Linux

Termite – keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Termite is a keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.

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Terminator – useful tool for arranging terminals

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Terminator is a small project to produce an efficient way of filling a large area of screen space with terminals.

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Linux

st – simple terminal emulator

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

st is a simple terminal emulator for X which sucks less. st is free and open source software published under the MIT/X Consortium License.

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