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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

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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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: 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: 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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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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Terminal Emulators

kitty – hardware-accelerated terminal emulator

October 11, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

kitty offers GPU-acceleration and is targeted at power keyboard users. It’s billed as a modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator. Here’s a concise review of this terminal emulator.

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cmus

cmus – free terminal-based audio player

September 16, 2019 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

This review looks at an alternative to musikcube. It’s called cmus. It shares many similarities with musikcube. Both are designed to run on a text-only user interface, reducing the resources required to run the application.

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Programming Books

15 Excellent Free Books to Learn C

July 25, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

C is a general-purpose, procedural, portable, high-level programming language that is one of the most popular and influential languages. Here’s our recommended free books to learn about C.

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Music visualization

GLava – OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer for desktop windows or backgrounds

July 18, 2019 Luke Baker Desktop, Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

GLava is an OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer primarily used for desktop windows or backgrounds. It’s free and open source software.

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tizonia

Tizonia – powerful open source cloud music player for the Linux terminal

July 15, 2019 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Tizonia offers access to Spotify, YouTube, Google Play Music, SoundCloud and more all from the command line. Free and open source software. Here’s my review of the software.

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Ninslash Team Deathmatch

Ninslash – a great fun open source 2D platform game needs YOU!

July 5, 2019 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software

Ninslash is a free multiplayer 2D survival shooter based on another game called Teeworlds, a highly revered retro multiplayer shooter. Read why you should download Ninslash today!

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Internet-Radio

Goodvibes – internet radio player

June 21, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Goodvibes is billed as a lightweight internet radio player offering a simple way to access your favorite radio stations. Here’s my review of this open source radio player.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: tmux – terminal multiplexer software

April 1, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

This is the first in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities. For the first article, we put tmux under the spotlight.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: VeraCrypt – Strong disk encryption software

March 27, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

VeraCrypt is a free open source cross-platform disk encryption software that builds on the discontinued TrueCrypt.

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