Clockywock – ncurses analog clock

Clockywock is billed as a cool ncurses analog clock. The software is written in the C++ programming language. The software is released under an open source license. Features include: Mono or color mode. Change characters used for hands. Change background

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Steem SSE – Steven Seagal Edition

Steem is a legendary Atari ST emulator, both accurate and easy to use thanks to its great user interface. Its development was stopped in 2004, at v3.2. Steem SSE is an updated version of Steem based on that source release.

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Kiwi IRC – web based IRC client

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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Desktop Environments

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.

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MATE 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

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LXQt – 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

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GNOME – 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

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KDE 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

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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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Howl

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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