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nauniq – non-adjacent uniq

June 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nauniq is similar to the Unix command uniq but detects repeated lines even if they are not adjacent. It’s written in Perl.

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huniq – removes duplicates from stdin using a hash table

June 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

huniq remove duplicates from the given input. Note that huniq does not sort the input, it just removes duplicates.

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procs – modern replacement for ps

June 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

procs is a replacement for ps. It has cross-platform support running under Linux and Windows, with experimental support for macOS.

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pstree – display a tree of processes

June 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pstree shows the currently running processes as a tree. This is free and open source software written in the C programming language.

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fuser – identifies processes using files or sockets

June 6, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fuser identifies processes using files or sockets. It’s written in the C programming language and published under the GPL.

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lsfd – modern replacement for lsof

June 6, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lsfd is intended to be a modern replacement for lsof on Linux systems. It’s free and open source software written in C.

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fend – arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator

June 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fend is an arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator. fend supports a few different output formats. It’s free and open source software.

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Resonance – Rust-based music player

June 5, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Resonance is an intuitive music player application written in Rust (with a smattering of Python), built with a clean user interface using GTK4 / Libadwaita.

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bc-gh – implementation of dc and bc

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bc-gh is an implementation of Unix dc and POSIX bc with GNU and BSD extensions. It’s free and open source software.

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cpc – text calculator

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cpc is a text calculator with support for units and conversion. cpc parses and evaluates strings of math. It’s written in Rust.

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eva – simple calculator REPL

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

eva is a simple calculator REPL, similar to bc, with syntax highlighting and persistent history. It’s free and open source software.

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Internet

Best Free and Open Source Software – Internet

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering web browsers, email, anti-spam, mailing list managers, Usenet, VoIP and more.

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Documents

Best Free and Open Source Software – Documents

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering office suites, groupware, project management, databases, PDF tools, and text editors.

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Education

Best Free and Open Source Software – Education

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Education, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering educational software such as e-Learning, typing tutors, bibliography tools, foreign language.

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Graphics

Best Free and Open Source Software – Graphics

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering HDR, renderers, modelers, painting, camera, photo metadata, image viewers, screen capture.

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Productivity

Best Free and Open Source Software – Productivity

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering file managers, desktop search engines, mind mapping, notes, collection managers, diary tools, and more.

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Security

Best Free and Open Source Software – Security

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Security, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering security software, firewalls, web application firewalls, email encryption, port scanners.

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Selection of utilities

Best Free and Open Source Software – Utilities

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering compression tools, system cleaning, password managers, font tools, essential utilities.

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Best Free and Open Source Software – Development

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Programming, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering IDEs, frameworks, compilers, debuggers, revision control, programming languages.

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HomeGallery – self-hosted web gallery

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

HomeGallery is a self-hosted web gallery to browse photos and videos featuring tagging, mobile-friendly, and AI powered image discovery.

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