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DeaDBeeF – ultimate music player

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is billed as the ultimate music player for Linux systems. It is a very basic and simple player with a small footprint.

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Slate – pixel art editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Slate was built for pixel art. It aims to simplify the creation of sprites and tilesets by offering a user-friendly, customisable interface.

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rx – modern and minimalist pixel editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

rx is a modern and minimalist pixel editor. This is free and open source software written in the Rust programming language.

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mtPaint – painting program to create pixel art and manipulate digital photos

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

mtPaint is a simple GTK+1/2/3 painting program designed for creating icons and pixel based artwork.

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PikoPixel – draw and edit pixel art images

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

PikoPixel is software for drawing and editing pixel art images. It runs under Linux using the GNUstep framework.

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Piskel – animated sprites and pixel art

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Piskel is an easy-to-use sprite editor. It can be used to create game sprites, animations, pixel-art, and more.

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csprite – tiny pixel art tool

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

csprite is a tiny pixel art tool written in C++ and C. It’s a fork of Sixel.

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Pixelorama – pixel art editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Pixelorama is a pixel art editor. It is created with the Godot Engine. This is free and open source software.

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sway – tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Sway is an i3-compatible tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11.

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zplug – plugin manager for zsh

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

zplug is billed as a next-generation plugin manager for Zsh. Zsh is an extended Bourne shell with many improvements, including some features of Bash, ksh, and tcsh.

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Zinit – flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Zinit is a flexible and fast Zshell plugin manager that will allow you to install everything from GitHub and other sites.

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Znap – easy-to-use tools for Zsh

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Znap is a fast, lightweight set of tools to ease the use of Zsh plugins and Git repos and reduce your shell’s startup time.

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Zim – Zsh configuration framework

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Zim is a Zsh configuration framework that bundles a plugin manager, useful modules, and a wide variety of themes.

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Zi – Swiss Army Knife for Zsh

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Zi is billed as a “Swiss Army Knife” for Zsh. Zsh is an extended Bourne shell with many improvements.

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Zap – minimal zsh plugin manager

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Zap is a minimal Zsh plugin manager. This is free and open source software.

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zgen – lightweight plugin manager for Zsh

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

zgen is a lightweight plugin manager for Zsh inspired by Antigen. Keep your .zshrc clean and simple. This is free and open source software.

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Pretzo – configuration framework for Zsh

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Pretzo is a configuration framework for Zsh. It aims to enrich the command line interface environment. Free and open source software.

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podfox – podcatching for the terminal

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

podfox is software for managing and catching podcasts from the terminal. It depends upon feedparser, requests and colorama.

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neon-podcaster – listen to podcasts using RSS

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

neon-podcaster is a command line podcast client to listen to any podcast episode using RSS. This is free and open source software.

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podget – simple podcast aggregator

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Podget is a simple open source podcast aggregator optimized for running as a scheduled background job (i.e. cron).

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