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Streaming with Linux: Myuzi

September 2, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

This is the second article in a new series that surveys popular streaming services and software from a Linux perspective. Myuzi is billed as a Spotify-like client with no ads.

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Best Free and Open Source Software

Best Free and Open Source Software – August 2022 Updates

September 1, 2022 Steve Emms Software

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

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Spotify

ncspot – ncurses Spotify client

August 29, 2022 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

ncspot is a command-line Spotify client that’s written in Rust. It’s published under an open source license.

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Spotify

Spotify TUI – Spotify client for the terminal

August 26, 2022 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

For this review, we’re looking at Spotify TUI. It’s a Spotify client for the terminal written in Rust.

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Kasts – convergent podcast software

August 24, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Kasts is billed as a “convergent podcast application”. It is written in C++ and QML and uses the Kirigami UI Framework. It’s free and open source software.

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Task Manager

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Reminders

August 22, 2022 Steve Emms Productivity, Software, Utilities

Apple Reminders is a task management program to create lists and set notifications. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Streaming with Linux: Spotify

spotify-qt – lightweight Spotify client

August 19, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

spotify-qt is billed as a lightweight Spotify client. As its name indicates it’s built using Qt. Here’s our review of this open source client.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Snipping Tool

August 17, 2022 Steve Emms Office, Software, Utilities

Snipping Tool is a screenshot utility. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Finance

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Finance

August 15, 2022 Steve Emms Financial, Software

Google Finance is a website focusing on business news and financial information. It provides real-time market quotes, international exchanges, financial news, and analytics.

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Interactive Whiteboard

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Jamboard

August 12, 2022 Steve Emms Office, Software

Google Jamboard is a digital interactive whiteboard to work with Google Workspace. We recommend the best open source alternatives.

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Multimedia entertainment

HBud – simple audio and video player

August 10, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

HBud is billed as a simple music/video/karaoke app. It’s written in Python, uses GTK4 for its GUI framework, and GStreamer for its multimedia backend.

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Remote Display

14 Best Free and Open Source Remote Display Software

August 9, 2022 Steve Emms Internet, Software, Utilities

This article examines the best free Linux remote desktop clients and terminal servers. We feature free and open source software.

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Shooter Games

10 Fun Free and Open Source 2D Shooter Games – Part 2

August 7, 2022 Lee Walker Games

2D shooter games are a subgenre of shooter game, which in turn is a type of action game. This is the second part.

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Apple Calendar

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Calendar

August 3, 2022 Steve Emms Productivity, Software

Apple Calendar is a personal calendar app supporting multiple accounts, colour coding, events, and calendar invitations. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Best Free and Open Source Software

Best Free and Open Source Software – July 2022 Updates

August 1, 2022 Steve Emms Software

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

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Game Engines

10 Free and Open Source Game Engines – Part 2

July 31, 2022 Lee Walker Games, Software

Game engines play a crucial role in the fast creation and development of computer games.

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RPG Games

10 Fun Free and Open Source Role-Playing Games – Part 2

July 30, 2022 Lee Walker Games, Software

A role-playing game is a genre of video game where the gamer controls a fictional character (or characters) that undertakes a quest.

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Learning

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Dictionary

July 29, 2022 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple Dictionary is a small utility that lets users easily get definitions of words and phrases from a variety of sources. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Music

G4Music – lightweight music player

July 27, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

G4Music is billed as a beautiful, fast, fluent, lightweight music player. Here’s our review.

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Arcade Games

10 Fun Free and Open Source Arcade Games

July 26, 2022 Lee Walker Games, Software

An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine often installed in public businesses such as restaurants, pubs, and amusement arcades.

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