Kiwi IRC is a web based IRC client. It’s designed to be simple to use. The software is released under an open source license. Features include: Themes – there are several themes included within Kiwi IRC to cover a wide
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Ulauncher – great application launcher for Linux
Ulauncher is a fast application launcher for Linux. It has a minimal design, dependent on only a few resources, very fast, and works on virtually all Linux desktops. The software is written in Python, using GTK+. The software is released
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Linux Desktop Environments: Pantheon, Trinity, LXDE
Our article “Best Linux Desktop Environments: Strong and Stable” surveyed 9 strong and stable Linux desktop environments (DEs). Due to popular demand, this article extends that survey with 3 other desktops: Pantheon, Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE), and LXDE. We examine their features, user experience, resources footprint, extensibility, and documentation, and compare them to the 9 desktops covered in the original article.
Read morePantheon Desktop Environment – showcasing the elementary OS
Pantheon is the desktop environment originally created for the elementary OS distribution. It’s written from scratch in Vala, using GTK3 and Granite. With regards to usability and appearance, the desktop has some similarities with GNOME Shell and macOS. Pantheon is
Read moreCinnamon – Desktop Environment with Advanced Features
Cinnamon is a Linux desktop which provides advanced innovative features and a traditional user experience. The desktop layout is similar to Gnome 2 with underlying technology forked from Gnome Shell. Cinnamon makes users feel at home with an easy to
Read moreMATE Desktop Environment – the continuation of GNOME 2
The MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. If you love cascading menus, top and bottom panels, and an absence
Read moreLXQt – The Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment
LXQt is a lightweight Qt-based desktop environment. LXQt is the product of the merge between LXDE-Qt, an initial Qt flavour of LXDE, and Razor-qt, a project aiming to develop a Qt based desktop environment with similar objectives as the current
Read moreGNOME – finely crafted desktop environment
GNOME is a desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems, composed entirely of free and open-source software. It provides a graphical user interface and a set of core applications, and the GNOME Development Platform, a framework for building applications that integrate
Read moreKDE Plasma – desktop environment created by KDE
Plasma is the KDE workspace. It’s a common framework for creating integrated interfaces. It’s flexible enough to provide interfaces for mobile devices (phones and netbooks), media centres and desktop computers. Plasma supports widgets written specifically for Plasma (also known as
Read moreBudgie Desktop – flagship desktop environment for Solus OS
Budgie is a desktop environment that uses GNOME technologies such as GTK+ (> 3.x) and is developed by the Solus project as well as by contributors from numerous communities such as openSUSE Tumbleweed, Arch Linux and Ubuntu Budgie. Budgie’s design
Read moreDeepin Desktop Environment – desktop environment for Deepin Linux distro
The Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) is the desktop environment of the Chinese Deepin Linux distribution. This custom interface is built atop common technologies, Qt/C++ and Golang. Qt is a cross-platform application framework and widget toolkit for creating classic and embedded
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5 Best Free Node.js Introductory Books
Node.js (commonly known as Node) is a modern, event based, asynchronous I/O software platform which is designed for scalable network and server-side applications. First released in 2009, it is released under the MIT license.
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Survey: Console Based Linux File Managers
In the field of system administration, Linux has bags of graphical file managers. However, some users prefer managing files from the shell, finding it the quickest way to navigate the file system and perform file operations. This is, in part, because console based file managers are more keyboard friendly, enabling users to perform file operations without using a mouse, and make it quicker to navigate the filesystem and issue commands in the console at the same time.
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8 Lesser Known Yet Awesome Text Editors
Irrespective of the operating system used, the text editor is one of those quintessential applications for many users. A text editor is software used for editing plain text files. Text editors are used to write programming code, change configuration files, take notes, and more. For this feature, we wanted to select alternative text editors which are definitely worth trying but may have been missed given that they receive less coverage in Linux publications, and are not included or installed by default in many Linux distributions.
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11 More Enlightening Free Linux Books – Part 2
The purpose of this article is to identify insightful and well written Linux books that can be downloaded without charge. The majority of the books featured in this article are themselves released under an open source license.
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Monkey Server – fast and lightweight web server
Monkey is a fast and lightweight Web Server for Linux. It has been designed to be very scalable with low memory and CPU consumption.
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Newsboat: A Snazzy Text-Based RSS Feed Reader
Newsboat is a sleek, open source RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console. It’s a fork of Newsbeuter. RSS and Atom are a number of widely-used XML formats to transmit, publish and syndicate articles, typically news or blog articles.
Newsboat is designed to be used on text terminals on Unix or Unix-like systems. It’s entirely controlled by the keyboard.
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Winds – RSS and Podcast software created using React / Redux / Node
Winds is billed as a beautiful, modern, open-source RSS Reader and Podcast app. It’s certainly garnishing attention among open source enthusiasts. It’s picked up over 5,000 stars on GitHub, so I’ve been putting this JavaScript software through its paces.
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Linux With Education – Best Free Education Apps
In this article, we award 42 medals to superb open source educational software. We identify free software ideally suited for young people, parents, teachers, academics, and administrators – basically anyone involved in education.
Read moreLinux With Education – Visual Programming – Best Free Software
In our technology driven world gadgets from computers, smartphones to tablets are an integral part of life. Children are tech-savvy, they can often master a tablet quicker than their parents. Research shows the earlier a child learns the basics behind
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