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Nora is billed as an elegant music player

January 21, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Nora is billed as an elegant music player. It’s built using Electron and React. This is free and open source software.

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File Managers

HiFile – cross-platform file manager

January 16, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews

HiFile is a Qt6-based orthodox file manager and therefore sports a classic dual-pane interface.

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YouTube

pipe-viewer – lightweight YouTube client

January 8, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

pipe-viewer is a lightweight YouTube client for Linux, without requiring an API key. It’s free and open source software.

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Electric Guitar

Dopamine – Electron-based music player

January 3, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Dopamine is an open source music player that uses Electron, a framework designed to create desktop applications using web technologies.

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Coding

Buildah – build OCI container images

January 2, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Buildah is a tool that facilitates building Open Container Initiative (OCI) container images.

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Coding

Kubernetes – container orchestration engine

January 2, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is a system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: December 2023 Updates

December 31, 2023 Steve Emms Software

December 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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December 24, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, Software

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Celeste – GUI file synchronization client

December 23, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Celeste is a GUI file synchronization client that can connect to virtually any cloud provider.

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Performance

gopeed – modern download manager

December 13, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

Gopeed is billed as a modern download manager. It supports HTTP, BitTorrent and Magnet protocol download. It’s written in Dart and Go.

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Performance

Motrix – full-featured download manager

December 8, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

Motrix is billed as a full-featured download manager. It’s written mostly in JavaScript and offers cross-platform support.

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software: November 2023 Updates

December 1, 2023 Steve Emms Software

November 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Music

kew – command-line music player

November 26, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

kew is a music player with gapless playback. It’s written in C and published under an open source license. It was previously called cue. I review the latest release.

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Music Festival

tap v0.4.11 – terminal-based music player

November 24, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

tap is a terminal-based music player that lets you jump to any album with fuzzy-finder shortcuts. Here’s my take on v0.4.11.

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Coding

Harlan – language for GPU computing

November 21, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Harlan is a declarative, domain specific language for programming GPUs. It serves as a testbed for implementation and optimization techniques.

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Coding

Ceylon – language for writing large programs in teams

November 21, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Ceylon is an open source language for writing large programs in teams that is influenced by Java. It is a “higher-order” language.

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Coding

Go – programming language

November 21, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Go is a programming environment that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. It is a statically typed, compiled language.

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Coding

Elixir – dynamic, functional language

November 21, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Elixir is a functional, concurrent, general-purpose, open source meta-programming aware language built on top of the Erlang Virtual Machine (BEAM).

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Coding

OpenCL – Open Computing Language

November 21, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a multi-vendor open standard for general-purpose parallel programming of heterogeneous systems.

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Coding

Fantom – programming language

November 21, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Fantom (previously known as Fan) is a general purpose object-oriented programming language that runs on the Java Runtime Environment.

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