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Hypervisors

Xen – open industry standard for virtualization

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Xen can securely execute multiple virtual machines, each running its own operating system, on a single physical system.

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Menu

pdmenu – full screen menuing system

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

pdmenu is a simple open source console menu program. It’s designed to be easy to use, and is suitable for a login shell.

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Menu

tmenu – fuzzy completion for anything in the terminal

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

tmenu is an open source dynamic menu for tty devices. The utility reads a list of newline-separated items from standard input.

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Chat

WeeChat – extensible chat client

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light IRC client for many operating systems including Linux.

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Chat

Irssi – text mode chatting client

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.

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Chat

ScrollZ – advanced IRC client

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ScrollZ is an advanced IRC client based on ircII. It adds features found in ircII scripts like Toolz, PhoEniX, GargOyle or Lice.

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Chat

EPIC – console based IRC client

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

EPIC (Enhanced Programmable ircII Client) is a free and open source console based IRC client based on ircII.

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Chat

BarnOwl – curses-based IM client forked from the ​ktools owl project

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

BarnOwl is a curses-based instant messenger client.The software is forked from the ktools owl project. It’s free and open source software.

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Media Center

MythTV – digital video recorder (DVR) project

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

MythTV is a suite of software that allows you to build a Home Theater convergence box. MythTV is free and open source software.

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Hard disk image

Parted – partition manager software

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

GNU Parted is a free and open source program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy disk partitions.

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Archive Manager

File Roller – archive manager for GNOME

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME desktop environment. It performs file compression and archiving functions.

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Archive Manager

Engrampa – archive manager utility for MATE Environment

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Engrampa is an archive manager utility for the MATE Environment. It’s a fork of Archive Manager (File Roller).

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Archive Manager

Xarchiver – front-end to various command line archiving tools

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Xarchiver is a program for handling archives on Linux and FreeBSD. Xarchiver is free and open source software.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

HSTR – bash and zsh shell history suggest box

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

HSTR is a command line utility that brings improved BASH command completion from the history. HSTR is free and open source software.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

fzy – simple, fast fuzzy finder for the terminal

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fzy is a fast, simple fuzzy text selector for the terminal with an advanced scoring algorithm. fzy is free and open source software

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Archive Manager

tar – create tar archives

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tar is console based software for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar format. Free and open source software.

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GOCR – OCR software

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

GOCR is an optical character recognition program. It reads images in many formats and outputs a text file.

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Documentation Generators

Natural Docs – readable source code documentation for 21 programming languages

October 12, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Natural Docs is an extensible, multi-language documentation generator. Natural Docs focuses on automation and high-quality HTML output.

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Web Browsers

Lynx – text web browser

October 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Lynx is a fully-featured free and open source web browser running cursor-addressable, character-cell terminals or emulators.

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Web Browsers

ELinks – feature-rich text mode web browser

October 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables.

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