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Text Editor

Neovim – continuation and extension of Vim

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Neovim is a Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability. Neovim is an extension of Vim: feature-parity and backwards-compatibility are high priorities.

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Email

Cone – COnsole Newsreader And Emailer

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Cone stands for “console newsreader and emailer. Cone is a text-based mail client, which seamlessly handles multiple POP3, IMAP accounts.

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Email

Alpine – based on the Pine Message System

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Alpine (Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email) is a fast, free, easy to use console based email client.

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Email

Mutt – email client

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Mutt is a small but very powerful text based program for reading electronic mail under unix operating systems.

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Email

mu4e – emacs-based email client based on mu

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Built on top of mu are some extensions, including mu4e, which is a full-featured e-mail client that runs inside Emacs.

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tcsh – C shell with file name completion and command line editing

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

tcsh is a C shell with file name completion and command line editing. tcsh is free and open source software.

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Oils – new UNIX shell

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Oil is a new Unix shell. It runs your existing shell scripts, and it’s a new language for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

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DASH – POSIX compliant shell

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of sh aiming to be as small as possible. DASH is a direct descendant of the NetBSD version of ash.

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bash – sh-compatible command language interpreter

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Bash is the GNU Project’s Bourne Again SHell, a complete implementation of the IEEE POSIX and Open Group shell specification.

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zsh – advanced and programmable command interpreter

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use. It’s also a powerful scripting language. Free and open source software written in C.

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Mailing List Managers

ezmlm-idx – mailing list manager software

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

ezmlm is a modern mailing list manager. Its purpose is to efficiently send a message to a large number of recipients with minimal delay.

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Email

Balsa – highly configurable e-mail client

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Balsa is an e-mail client for GNOME, highly configurable and incorporating all the features you would expect in a robust mail client.

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Fonts

Fontmatrix – font collections manager

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Fontmatrix is a manager built with the kind of features and abilities graphic designers, layout professionals along with others have felt necessary.

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Fonts

Font Manager – simple font management for GTK+ desktop environments

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Font Manager is a useful utility that enables users to easily manage fonts on their system. It’s free and open source software.

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Music

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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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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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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Compositing Window Managers

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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Podcast

castget – simple, command-line based RSS enclosure downloader

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

castget is a simple, command-line based RSS enclosure downloader. It is primarily intended for automatic, unattended downloading of podcasts.

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Encryption

zuluCrypt – simple, feature rich and powerful solution for hard drive encryption

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

zuluCrypt is a simple, feature rich and powerful solution for hard drives encryption. This is free and open source software.

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