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System Administration

Excellent System Utilities: Ventoy – create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files

November 2, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.

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asciiworld

asciiworld – world map depicted in ASCII

October 30, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

asciiworld offers world maps depicted in ASCII. asciiworld is free and open source.

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cryptmount – managing encrypted file systems

October 23, 2020 Steve Emms Security

cryptmount is a software tool for managing encrypted file systems under Linux. cryptmount is free and open source software.

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libHaru – library for generating PDF files

October 20, 2020 Steve Emms Programming

libHaru is a library for generating PDF files. libHaru is free and open source software published under the zlib license.

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Linux Candy: Evolvotron – interactive generative art software

October 16, 2020 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

Evolvotron is an interactive “generative art” application to evolve images/textures/patterns/animations.

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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

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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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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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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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: nyancat – Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat Animation

December 16, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

nyancat is an animated, color, ANSI-text program that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. It’s free and open source candy.

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Programming Tutorials

Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn C

November 26, 2019 Erik Karlsson Programming, Tutorials

C is a general-purpose, procedural, portable, high-level programming language that is one of the most popular and influential languages. Read our recommended C tutorials.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: CMatrix – terminal based “The Matrix”

November 22, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

CMatrix is an ncurses program that simulates the display from “The Matrix”, and is based on the screensaver from the movie’s website.

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Siren

Siren – text-based audio player

October 28, 2019 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Siren is a text-based audio player with one of the lowest system footprints. Luke Baker reviews this free and open source music player.

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