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Excellent Utilities: Oh My Zsh – framework to manage your Zsh configuration

January 4, 2023 Erik Karlsson CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Oh My Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration.

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Best Free and Open Source Software – December 2022 Updates

January 1, 2023 Steve Emms Software

December 2022 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Contacts

December 28, 2022 Steve Emms Productivity, Software

Google Contacts is a contact management service. It’s available on the sidebar of Gmail, a web app, and for Android. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Excellent Utilities: Zellij – terminal workspace with batteries included

December 26, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Zellij is billed as “a workspace aimed at developers, ops-oriented people and anyone who loves the terminal”. It’s written in Rust.

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9 Best Free Linux e-book Tools – Updated 2022

December 24, 2022 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Linux has a good range of open source software which helps users to organize their e-book collection, catch up on a novel, or even to create and publish their own e-books.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Rnote – sketch and take handwritten notes

December 23, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Rnote is a vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes and to annotate documents and pictures. Here’s our review.

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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2022

December 22, 2022 Steve Emms Software, System Software

We’ve trawled through our statistics and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2022.

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Musicly – simple music player

December 21, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Musicly is billed as a simple and elegant music player. It’s cross-platform software written in JavaScript. Here’s Luke’s review.

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Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux – Part 5 – Multimedia

December 19, 2022 Steve Emms Blog, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

For this part in the series, we investigate the multimedia performance of the Lenovo T470 laptop including power management.

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Linux Candy: ctree – Christmas tree on your terminal

December 16, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Software

Given the time of year, it seems only appropriate to start decorating the desktop. ctree offers a Christmas tree right on your terminal.

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