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Coltrane – music theory library

November 18, 2024 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia

Coltrane is a music theory library with a command-line interface. It deals with all sorts of calculations around music theory.

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Video-Emulators

Cemu – Wii U emulator

November 17, 2024 Steve Emms Emulators

Cemu is software to emulate Wii U games and applications on a PC.

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asusctl – control aspects of ASUS laptops

November 15, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

asusctl is a control daemon, CLI tools, and a collection of crates for interacting with ASUS ROG laptops and other laptops.

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Concessio – understand file permissions

November 13, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Concessio is a graphical tool that’s designed to help you understand file permissions in Linux. It’s written in JavaScript.

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cdu – du like command

November 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cdu (Colour du) is a du like command but displays an attractive histogram with optional colours.

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Laptop

battery-wallpaper – script to set wallpaper according to battery percentage

November 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

battery-wallpaper is a bash script to set an animated battery as desktop wallpaper showing charging animation.

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Sniffnet – monitor your internet traffic

November 7, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Sniffnet is a network monitoring tool to help you easily keep track of your internet traffic.

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diskonaut – TUI disk space navigator

November 7, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

diskonaut is a TUI-based terminal disk space navigator. It’s written in Rust.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Clipchamp

November 6, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia

Clipchamp is non-linear editing software that allows users to import, edit, and export audiovisual material in an Internet browser window.

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MyTourbook – visualize and analyze tours

November 5, 2024 Steve Emms Other

MyTourbook lets you visualize and analyze tours which are recorded by a GPS device, bike- or exercise computer and ergometer.

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GoldenCheetah – cycling power analysis software

November 4, 2024 Steve Emms Other

GoldenCheetah is an open-source data analysis tool primarily written in C++ with Qt for cyclists and triathletes with support for training as well.

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Jogger – run tracking app for Gnome Mobile

November 3, 2024 Steve Emms Other

Jogger is an application for Gnome Mobile to track running and other workouts. It seeks inspiration from Fitotrack.

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Documentation

Clapgrep – app to search through all your files

November 3, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Clapgrep is a GUI utility which lets you search through your files.

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Laptop

Touchégg – Linux multi-touch gesture recognizer

November 2, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Touchégg is a program that runs in the background and transform the gestures on your touchpad/touchscreen into visible actions in your desktop.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: October 2024 Updates

October 31, 2024 Steve Emms Software

October 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Music

Recordbox – simple but sweet music player

October 31, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Recordbox is a music player and library browser designed primarily to be as simple as possible,

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cpupower-gui – tool to set CPU frequency limits

October 29, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

cpupower-gui is a GUI utility to set CPU frequency limits. It’s free and open source software written in Python.

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XClicker – GUI autoclicker for x11 desktops

October 29, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

XClicker is an easy to use, feature-rich, blazing fast autoclicker for Linux desktops using x11.

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Desktop Environments

LCARS Desktop Environment – desktop experience reminiscent of a LCARS interface

October 28, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

LCARS Desktop Environment, official project name lcarsde, is a desktop environment that mimics the LCARS interface from Star Trek: The Next Generation

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thermald – thermal daemon for Intel Architecture

October 28, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

thermald is a daemon used to prevent the overheating of platforms. It monitors temperature and applies compensation using cooling methods.

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