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MooseFS – POSIX-compliant distributed file system

October 6, 2020 Steve Emms Internet

MooseFS is a Petabyte Open Source Network Distributed File System. MooseFS spreads data over a number of commodity servers.

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dbKoda – modern open source database development and admin tool

October 1, 2020 Steve Emms Documents

dbKoda is a modern IDE for MongoDB. It has features to support development, administration and performance tuning on MongoDB databases.

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Sentrifugo – Human Resource Management System

September 23, 2020 Steve Emms Web Apps

Sentrifugo is a Human Resource Management System that can be easily configured to adapt to your organizational processes.

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Terminal Image Viewer

Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal

September 18, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Terminal Image Viewer is a small program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters. It’s free and open source software.

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Balance – open source load balancing solution

September 15, 2020 Steve Emms Software

Balance is a load balancing solution being a simple but powerful generic TCP proxy with round robin load balancing and failover capabilities. Its behaviour can be easily controlled at runtime using a simple command line syntax. Balance is free and

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Mark Text – simple and elegant open source Markdown editor

September 14, 2020 Steve Emms Documents, Reviews, Software

Mark Text is billed as a simple and elegant open-source markdown editor that focuses on speed and usability.

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Annie – video downloader built with Go

August 24, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Internet, Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Annie is an open source video downloader. It’s written in the Go programming language. Here’s our verdict on this tool.

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Vooki

Vooki – lightweight image viewer offering fast image preview

August 17, 2020 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

One of our favorite adages is “A picture is worth a thousand words”. It refers to the notion that a still image can convey a complex idea. Images can portray a lot of information quickly and more efficiently than text.

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Veonim – simple modal IDE built on Neovim and VSCode extensions

Veonim is a simple modal IDE built on Neovim and VSCode extensions. The goal is to create an ideal programming environment. Veonim is bundled with its own custom vim color scheme and the Roboto Mono font. This allows for a

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Termgraph

Termgraph – draw basic graphs in the terminal

August 7, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific, Software, Utilities

Termgraph is a command-line tool which draws basic graphs in the terminal. Termgraph is free and open source software and written in Python.

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Stretchly

Stretchly – reminder to take breaks

August 3, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Stretchly is a cross-platform Electron program that reminds you to take breaks when working on your computer. Stretchly is free and open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Boxes – command line ASCII boxes

July 24, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Boxes is a text filter which can draw ASCII art boxes around its input text. It can spice up news posting, emails, documenting files, and much more.

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Video Tools

You-Get – downloader that scrapes the web

March 9, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

You-Get is a tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the web. It’s free and open source software, with a huge number of GitHub stars.

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System Administration

Excellent System Tools: nnn – portable terminal file manager

February 24, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Reviews, Utilities

nnn is a free and open source terminal file manager written in the C programming language. nnn focuses on performance over features.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: xcowsay – displays a cow on your desktop with message

February 17, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Utilities

xcowsay is a tiny utility that displays a cow with a speech bubble containing some text. It’s free and open source goodness.

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M.2 Solid State Drives

dutree – reclaim precious hard disk space

February 10, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage analyzers?

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Git Clients

Gogs – self-hosted Git service

January 24, 2020 Steve Emms Web Apps

The Gogs project aims to build a simple, stable and extensible self-hosted Git service that can be setup in the most painless way.

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LXMusic

LXMusic – music player designed for the minimalist

January 20, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

LXMusic is a music player designed for the minimalist. It’s written in the C programming language, and uses GTK+.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls

December 30, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.

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gorss

gorss – simple RSS/Atom reader written in Golang

December 9, 2019 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Utilities

gorss is a simple free and open source RSS/Atom reader. It’s written in the Golang language. The program offers support for highlighting specific words.

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