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ArTTY – art for your TTY

September 30, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

ArTTY is billed as “Art for your TTY”.

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Calamares – installer framework

September 28, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Calamares is an installer framework. By design it is very customizable, in order to satisfy a wide variety of needs and use cases.

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FeedDeck – RSS and social media feed reader

September 24, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, News, Reviews

FeedDeck is an open source RSS and social media feed reader, inspired by TweetDeck.

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Codex – web based comic archive browser and reader

September 24, 2024 Steve Emms Other

Codex is a web-based comic archive browser and reader. Codex can also run as a natively installed Python application.

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Revisited: MusicPod – music, podcast and internet radio player

September 23, 2024 Luke Baker Internet, Multimedia, Reviews

MusicPod is a cross-platform music, radio, television and podcast player. It’s free and open source software and is under active development.

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Documentation

rm-trash – replacement for rm

September 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The rm-trash utility puts the files you delete in a shell safely into the Trash (Recycle bin).

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trashbhuwan – CLI trashing utility

September 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trashbhuwan is a simple CLI application for trashing and restoring files.

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Documentation

del – delete command with integrated undelete function

September 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

With del you have a delete command with integrated undelete function.

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Files

Brash – trash manager

September 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Brash is a command-line trash manager.

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Linux Distributions

Sleeper OS – specialized distro derived from Debian

September 19, 2024 Erik Karlsson Distro

Sleeper OS is a specialized Linux distribution, derived from Debian, that caters specifically to low-memory resource.

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Music player

Revisited: RMuP – terminal-based music player

September 18, 2024 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

Rusty Music Player (RMuP) is a TUI music player. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

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Documentation

gtrash – trash CLI manager

September 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gtrash is a trash CLI manager that fully complies with the FreeDesktop.org specification. gtrash moves files to the system trash can.

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Google Password Manager

SafeCloset – keep your secrets in password protected files

September 16, 2024 Steve Emms Security

SafeCloset keeps your secrets in password protected files. SafeCloset is designed to be convenient and avoid common weaknesses.

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YouTube

SpMp – YouTube music client with a focus on customization

September 9, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

SpMp is billed as a YouTube Music client with a focus on customisation of colours and song metadata.

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Hard disk image

cfdisk – display or manipulate a disk partition table

September 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

cfdisk is a curses-based program for partitioning any block device. cfdisk is part of the util-linux package.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: August 2024 Updates

September 1, 2024 Steve Emms Software

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

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Dissent – lightweight Discord app

August 29, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Reviews

Dissent (previously known as gtkcord4) is a third-party Discord client which bills itself as a “smooth, native experience on Linux desktops”.

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Monitoring

inotail – inotify-based implementation of tail

August 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

inotail is a replacement for the ‘tail’ program found in the base installation of every Linux system.

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Monitoring

colortail – like the tail command line utility but with colors

August 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

colortail works like tail but can optionally read one or more config files where it’s specified which patterns results in which colors.

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Monitoring

ptail – tail but dynamic

August 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ptail is a small, and likely useless, utility that truncates the output from processes.

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