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Game Tools

Awesome Linux Game Tools: ProtonUp-Qt

July 24, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software, Utilities

ProtonUp-Qt is software which helps you install custom builds of Proton such as GE-Proton. ProtonUp-Qt sports a graphical front-end

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Grapher

July 21, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific, Software

Grapher creates 2D and 3D graphs from simple and complex equations. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: touch – change file timestamps

July 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to touch, a command to change file timestamps.

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Why Understanding Open Source Software Is Important for Aspiring Data Scientists

July 19, 2023 John O'Donnell Scientific

The data science field is continuously expanding as our digitized technologies produce unprecedented volumes of information.

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Awesome Linux Game Tools: NoiseTorch-ng

July 19, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Software, Utilities

NoiseTorch-ng is billed as an “easy to use open source application for Linux with PulseAudio or PipeWire”.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Oracle’s Products

July 19, 2023 Steve Emms Office, Software

This series looks at free and open source alternatives to Oracle’s products.

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Best Free and Open Source Software – Science

July 18, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, data analysis, statistics, astronomy, weather, and more.

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Radio – Simple Radio App written in Vala

July 17, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Software

Radio is billed as a simple radio with a clear and concise interface. It’s written in Vala and published under an open source license.

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Awesome Linux Game Tools: MangoHud

July 15, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software, Utilities

MangoHud is a Vulkan and OpenGL overlay to help you monitor FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load, and more besides.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Time Machine

July 14, 2023 Steve Emms Software, System Software

Time Machine is a built-in backup feature to back up your personal data automatically, including apps, music, photos, emails and documents. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning in Linux: LibreTranslate is Self-hosted Machine Translation

July 13, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, Software

LibreTranslate is a machine translation API which is entirely self-hosted. This software lets you use open source machine translation in your projects.

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4 Best Free and Open Source eBook Web Apps

July 11, 2023 Steve Emms Roundup, Web Apps

This article selects our pick of the available eBook web apps. We only explore free and open source software here.

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Arianna – eBook reader and library management app

July 10, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software

Arianna is a eBook reader built for the KDE Plasma desktop but, of course, runs under other desktop environments.

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Password Managers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Password Manager

July 9, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Google Password Manager is a password manager built into Chrome and Android devices. We recommend free and open source alternatives.

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Screen capturing

Awesome Linux Game Tools: gpu-screen-recorder-gtk

July 7, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software, Utilities

gpu-screen-recorder-gtk is a GTK frontend for GPU Screen Recorder. It’s billed as a screen recorder that minimizes system performance by recording using the GPU only.

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Game Tools

Awesome Linux Game Tools: libstrangle – frame rate limiter

July 5, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software

libstrangle is a Linux utility that lets you cap the FPS of a game. It’s free and open source software written in C.

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Music

Swing Music is a Web-Based Self-hosted Music Player written in Python

July 5, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Swing Music bills itself as a cooler Spotify. That caught my attention. Unlike Spotify, it’s not a streaming service.

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Deep Learning

Machine Learning in Linux: Argos Translate is an Offline Translation Library

July 3, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, Software

Argos Translate is state of the art neural machine translation software. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.

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ebook reader

6 Best Free and Open Source eBook Tools

July 2, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

An electronic book (commonly abbreviated e-book) is a text and image-based publication which can be read on a computer or other digital devices such as an e-book reader.

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RSS Feeds

Raven Reader – cross-platform RSS reading software

July 1, 2023 Erik Karlsson Internet, News, Reviews, Software

Raven Reader is a desktop news reader application. It’s built using Electron, a popular framework with developers.

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