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myMPD

myMPD – standalone and lightweight web-based MPD client

November 25, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

myMPD is a standalone and lightweight web-based MPD client. Luke puts myMPD through its paces.

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ympd

ympd – MPD Web based GUI

November 23, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

ympd is a lightweight MPD (Music Player Daemon) web client that runs without a dedicated webserver or interpreters like PHP, NodeJS or Ruby.

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Ymuse

Ymuse – GTK front-end (client) for Music Player Daemon

November 20, 2020 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Ymuse is a simple and quick client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) using the GTK toolkit.

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Stars and Stripes - NASA

Stars and Stripes: NASA and Linux

November 18, 2020 Steve Emms Blog, Scientific

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civilian space program. How is NASA embracing Linux and open source?

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Utility Software

GoTTy – turn CLI tools into web applications

November 16, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

GoTTY turns CLI tools into web applications. GoTTY uses xterm.js and hterm to run a JavaScript based terminal on web browsers.

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Regards

Regards – modern photo viewer

November 11, 2020 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

Regards is billed as a modern photo viewer. It supports a very large range of formats including video.

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PosteRazor

PosteRazor – create your own posters

November 9, 2020 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

PosteRazor cuts raster images into multipage PDF documents.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Pywal – color schemes on the fly

November 6, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Pywal is Python software that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an image.

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System Administration

Excellent System Utilities: Ventoy – create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files

November 2, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.

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Best Free and Open Source Software

Best Free and Open Source Software – October 2020 Updates

November 1, 2020 Steve Emms Software

October 2020 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software.

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asciiworld

asciiworld – world map depicted in ASCII

October 30, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

asciiworld offers world maps depicted in ASCII. asciiworld is free and open source.

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Now and Then - File managers

Now and Then: What happened to 5 promising file managers?

October 28, 2020 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Back in 2012, we carried a feature looking at 5 file managers that received little media coverage but which carried bountiful promise.

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Utilities

colorls – turbocharged alternative to ls

October 26, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

colorls is a Ruby script that enhances ls with color and font-awesome icons. colorls is free and open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Hollywood – fill your console with Hollywood melodrama technobabble

October 23, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software

Hollywood is a 102 line script that occupies your console with tech geekery.

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Now and Then - Linux Distributions

Now and Then: The Fate of 15 Linux Distributions

October 21, 2020 Steve Emms Software

What happened to 15 popular Linux distributions? Are they still going strong, are they outclassed by other distributions, or are they only remembered like fingerprints on an abandoned handrail?

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Evolvotron – interactive generative art software

October 16, 2020 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

Evolvotron is an interactive “generative art” application to evolve images/textures/patterns/animations.

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imagededup

Image Deduplicator – find duplicate images

October 14, 2020 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

Image Deduplicator is a Python package that simplifies the task of finding exact and near duplicates in images.

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Nyxt - Web Browser

Nyxt – keyboard-oriented extensible open source web browser

October 12, 2020 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Software

Nyxt is a keyboard-oriented, extensible web-browser designed for power users.

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Now and Then - Lean Desktop Environments

Now and Then: The Development of 6 Lean Desktop Environments

October 11, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Software

Back in early 2008, we published a feature recommending the best 6 lean desktop environments. How did they fare?

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: XDecorations – Holiday lights and more

October 9, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

XDecorations is a small utility that lets you add decorations to your desktop. It’s our latest addition to the fun Linux Candy series.

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