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Emulate the Commodore 64 home computer with Linux

July 23, 2021 John O'Donnell Emulators, Software

The Commodore 64 (C64) is an 8-bit home computer released in 1982. The $595 (£399) device took its name from its US maker, Commodore International, and the fact it had 64K of RAM.

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RSS Feeds

NewsFlash – follow your favorite blogs and news sites

July 16, 2021 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Software

NewsFlash is a program designed to complement an already existing web-based RSS reader account.

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FICS Internet Chess Clients

6 Best Free and Open Source FICS Chess Clients

July 15, 2021 Steve Emms Games, Internet, Software

Free Internet Chess Server is a server for chess players to play against each other over the Internet.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: tldr – simplified and community-driven man pages

July 14, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

The tldr project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages.

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Chess Engines

12 Strong Free and Open Source Chess Engines

July 10, 2021 Steve Emms Games, Software

Computer chess has been a phenomenal success, aiding chess analysis, and allowing players to play when no human opponents are available.

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Haruna

Haruna – video player using libmpv

July 9, 2021 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Haruna is a modern-looking QML-based front-end to mpv. Here’s our review. Haruna is free and open source software.

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vizex

vizex – visualize disk space and disk usage

July 8, 2021 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

vizex is a command line interface program that shows how much free disk space you have. vizex is free and open source software.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Open Source Replacements for Proprietary Windows Desktop Software – Part 8

July 7, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, Desktop

We consider popular Windows proprietary software and recommend great open source replacements that run under Linux.

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YouTube

Best Free Alternatives to YouTube

July 5, 2021 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia

YouTube has over 2 billion monthly logged-in users with people watching over a billion hours of video a day. What open source alternatives are available?

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Linux Chess Apps

10 Best Free Linux Chess Apps (Updated 2021)

July 3, 2021 Steve Emms Games, Software

Linux chess software generally is separated into a “front end” application and a “chess engine”. There is a wide range of chess-playing software for Linux which can defeat most master players under tournament conditions.

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