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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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Backup

5 Best Free Linux Simple Backup Software

May 21, 2020 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

For Linux we recommend that home users install software that hides the complexity of doing backups. To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 best Linux simple backup software. Hopefully, there will be something here of interest to anyone who wants to take the effort out of ensuring the safety of their data.

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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Podcasts – Week 22

March 25, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Utilities

Podcasts are big business. We see celebrities, influencers, journalists, academics, one man and his dog owning a microphone and mixing desk produce regular podcast shows. How does the RPI4 fare as a podcast player?

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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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Podcasts

GNOME Podcasts – podcast client for the GNOME desktop

September 12, 2018 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Podcasts are shows, similar to radio or TV shows, that are produced by professionals or amateurs and made available on the internet to stream and/or download. They are a popular source of entertainment. There’s lots of great podcasts that are Linux-centric, which I surveyed in this review.

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StingRay – simple chess graphical user interface

September 3, 2018 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software

StingRay is a new entry in the field of Linux-based chess software. It’s billed as a simple chess graphical user interface with basic functionality to run against UCI and XBoard engines.

The software is designed to be lightweight and not burden the chess player with features they’ll never use.

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