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Best Free and Open Source Office Suites

VisiData – interactive multitool for tabular data

October 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Office

VisiData is a tool that lets you quickly open, explore, summarize, and analyze datasets in your computer’s terminal.

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power-profiles-daemon – makes power profiles handling available over D-Bus

October 26, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

power-profiles-daemon offers to modify system behaviour based upon user-selected power profiles.

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Invoices

Kraft – handles quotes and invoices

October 25, 2024 Steve Emms Financial

Kraft helps to handle your daily quotes and invoices in your small business.

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Poddycast – podcast app

October 24, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Poddycast is a podcast client that’s made with Electron. It’s free and open source software. We put it through its paces.

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MATE Terminal – terminal emulator the MATE desktop environment

October 23, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

MATE Terminal is the official terminal emulator for the MATE Desktop.

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Station – convergent terminal emulator

October 22, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

The Station terminal emulator is an application for accessing a UNIX shell environment. It’s a core app of MAUI.

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Black Box – GTK 4 terminal

October 21, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Black Box is an elegant and customizable terminal for GNOME. This is free and open source software written in Vala.

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Ptyxis – terminal for a container-oriented desktop

October 20, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Ptyxis is a terminal for GNOME with first-class support for containers.

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Linux Distributions

FunOS – minimal, fast, and secure Linux distribution

October 18, 2024 Erik Karlsson Distro

FunOS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS. It uses the JWM window manager, comes without Snap, and includes the latest Ubuntu HWE kernel.

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Task Manager

Errands – manage your tasks

October 16, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews

Errands is billed as a “Todo application for those who prefer simplicity”. It’s free and open source software.

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Selection of utilities

Picker – randomly pick something to do

October 14, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Picker is a simple program that can pick something for you from a list of things.

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Collector – drag and drop to the next level

October 11, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

Collector is software that lets you drag multiple files and folders on to a Collection window. It’s an alternative to Dropover for macOS.

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Configuring music

MidiEditor – graphical interface to edit, play, and record Midi data

October 9, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia

MidiEditor is software which provides an interface to edit, record, and play Midi data.

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Performance

uGet – lightweight download manager

October 8, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

uGet is a download manager that combines lightweight resource usage with a very powerful feature set.

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Text Editor

idea – keep ideas safe

October 4, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

idea is a lightweight CLI tool and module for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.

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Text Editing

zk – plain text note-taking assistant

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

zk is a command-line tool helping you to maintain a plain text Zettelkasten or personal wiki.

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Log Analyzers

QLogExplorer – tool for exploring log files

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

QLogExplorer is billed as an advanced tool for exploring log files.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: September 2024 Updates

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms Software

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

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jot – note management for the terminal

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Jot is a feature-stripped version of Obsidian focused on rapid note management through the terminal.

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Log Analyzers

Chipmunk – logfile viewer and analyzer

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Chipmunk is a fast logfile viewer that can deal with huge logfiles (>10 GB).

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