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

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software

Out of the myriad of utilities that are available for Linux, top is a troubleshooting tool that often comes up in conversation. We recommend the best network ‘top’ tools.

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Music image

tap is a terminal-based music player with fuzzy-finder

September 11, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

tap is a terminal-based music player that lets you jump to any album with fuzzy-finder shortcuts.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Get Started with the Terminal – Part 9

July 12, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, CLI, Software

What’s a shell? What’s a terminal? The shell is a program that takes commands from the keyboard and gives them to the operating system to perform.

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Text Editor

Compact Text Editors Great for Remote Editing and Much More

May 6, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

A text editor is software used for editing plain text files.

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Terminal Image Viewer

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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Termgraph

Termgraph – draw basic graphs in the terminal

August 7, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific, Software, Utilities

Termgraph is a command-line tool which draws basic graphs in the terminal. Termgraph is free and open source software and written in Python.

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Diary software

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Dear Diary – Week 32

June 3, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, CLI, Desktop, Software, Utilities

Keeping a diary of your daily life is an activity that is held dear by many people. In this week’s blog, Luke checks out RedNotebook, Lifeograph, jrnl, and Org on the Raspberry Pi 4.

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Filemanagers

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – File Management – Week 21

March 18, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Utilities

This week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog focuses on file managers, recommending the best console and GUI-based file managers for this tiny machine.

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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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Music Tools

17 Best Free Console Based Linux Multimedia Apps

January 10, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Software

The vast majority of Linux users would never be satisfied without access to a graphical user interface. However, even in 2020 there remain many reasons why console based applications can be extremely desirable. Although console applications are very useful for updating, configuring, and repairing a system, their benefits are not only confined to system administration.

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