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Linux Candy: chucknorris – Chuck Norris jokes in your terminal

December 21, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Raise a smile reading these awesome Chuck Norris jokes from your terminal.

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GoTTy – turn CLI tools into web applications

November 16, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

GoTTY turns CLI tools into web applications. GoTTY uses xterm.js and hterm to run a JavaScript based terminal on web browsers.

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colorls – turbocharged alternative to ls

October 26, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

colorls is a Ruby script that enhances ls with color and font-awesome icons. colorls is free and open source software.

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5 Best Free and Open Source Console Web Browsers

October 21, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

A web browser is the quintessential desktop application. We recommend the finest free and open source console based web browsers.

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6 Best Free and Open Source Console Based Network ‘top’ Tools

October 6, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Software, System Software

Out of the myriad of utilities that are available for Linux, top is a troubleshooting tool that often comes up in conversation.

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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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Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal

September 18, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Terminal Image Viewer is a small program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters. It’s free and open source software.

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9 Best Free Console-Based Diff Tools

August 29, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

File comparison compares the contents of computer files, finding their common contents and their differences. The result of the comparison is often known as a diff. Here’s our recommended free and open source console-based diff tools.

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Annie – video downloader built with Go

August 24, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Internet, Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Annie is an open source video downloader. It’s written in the Go programming language. Here’s our verdict on this tool.

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cointop

cointop – monitor cryptocurrencies in the terminal

August 14, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Financial, Reviews, Software, Utilities

cointop is a fast and lightweight interactive terminal based UI application for tracking and monitoring cryptocurrency coin stats in real-time.

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