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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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Excellent System Utilities: CPU-X – system profiler tool

September 30, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

CPU-X is a similar tool to the Windows utility CPU-Z. Unlike CPU-Z, CPU-X is free and open source Linux software. Here’s our review.

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Linux Candy: Buoh – online strips comics reader

July 31, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Buoh is a reader for online strips comics. It’s free and open source software.

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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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tint2

tint2 – simple and light open source taskbar

July 17, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

tint2 is a simple panel/taskbar made for window managers. It was specifically made for Openbox, a popular stacking window manager.

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Linux Candy: oneko – animal chasing fun

May 4, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

oneko is a silly bit of candy that creates a little cat which chases after your mouse cursor. It serves no useful purpose; but it’s amusing!

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Linux Candy: gti – typo-based curio inspired by Steam Locomotive

April 20, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

gti catches accidental typos of ‘gti’ instead of ‘git’. It displays an animation of a car driving by, and then launches git.

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Linux Candy: Steam Locomotive – fun command for your terminal

March 30, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

Steam Locomotive is a fun command that’s designed to teach you one thing. Stop mistyping ls!

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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: 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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