Final Cut Pro is a commercial proprietary video editing application. What are the best free and open source alternatives?
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5 Excellent Free Books to Learn CSS
We recommend the best free books to learn CSS, a language which specifies the appearance of web pages.
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15 Utilities, Scripts and Ways to Interrogate Your PC
There are many ways of obtaining information about the hardware you are using. The simplest and most reliable source is your system itself.
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WaypointHR – human resource database software
WaypointHR is a human resource database. A free, stable, immediate and flexible Human Resource Management System (HRIS).
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Best Free Android Apps: AnkiDroid – learn with flashcards
AnkiDroid lets you learn flashcards very efficiently by showing them just before you would forget.
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Excellent Utilities: Deskreen – live streaming desktop to a web browser
Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer.
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Excellent Utilities: broot – next gen tree explorer and customizable launcher
broot is a utility that gives an overview of a directory, and much much more.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft GitHub
This series looks at the best free and open source alternatives to products and services offered by Microsoft. We launch the series with GitHub.
Read moreless – a terminal pager program
less is a terminal pager. A pager is a program that displays text files. Other pagers commonly in use are more and pg. Pagers are often used in command-line environments. less is similar to more, but has the extended capability
Read moresleepenh – enhanced sleep program
sleepenh is a program that can be used when there is a need to execute some functions periodically in a shell script. It was not designed to be accurate for a single sleep, but to be accurate in a sequence
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Goggles Music Manager – music collection manager and player
Goggles Music Manager is free and open source software that lets you play and organize your music collection.
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OrangeHRM – HR software
OrangeHRM is a human resource information system. OrangeHRM captures all the essential functionality required for any enterprise.
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Guayadeque Music Player – music management software
Guayadeque Music Player aims to be an intuitive, simple to use, and fast for Linux audiophiles with large music collections.
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Avast! – antivirus protection
Avast! Antivirus is an anti-virus program. It’s a multi-award winning solution to virus protection, with anti-spyware and anti-rootkit software.
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AMaViS – high-performance interface
AMaViS (A Mail Virus Scanner) scans e-mail attachments for viruses using third-party virus scanners available for UNIX environments.
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vizex – visualize disk space and disk usage
vizex is a command line interface program that shows how much free disk space you have. vizex is free and open source software.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Open Source Replacements for Proprietary Windows Desktop Software – Part 8
We consider popular Windows proprietary software and recommend great open source replacements that run under Linux.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – 8 Things to do after installing Ubuntu – Part 5
After installing Ubuntu 21.04, you’re ready to use your new system. But there are some additional steps we recommend you do.
Read moreb2 – BBC Micro emulator
b2 is a BBC Micro emulator. The emulator supports several types of BBC B (with different disk interfaces), B+, B+128, Master 128 with MOS 3.20 and Master 128 with MOS 3.50. b2 is free and open source software. Features include:
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Choose a Distro – Part 2
Which distro should you try? We offer advice for beginners to Linux.
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