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Albania

Chafa – terminal graphics image viewer

June 22, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software

This review looks at a terminal-based image viewer that supports the Kitty Graphics Protocol. It’s named Chafa, shorthand for Character Art Facsimile.

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Austria

viu – Terminal Image Viewer with Kitty Graphics Protocol support

June 13, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software

viu is different from the vast majority of image viewers. It’s a small command-line program to view images from the terminal.

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Music player

termusic – terminal-based music player

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

termusic is a music player written in Rust. Here’s our review of this open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: terminal-parrot – party parrot time

February 24, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

terminal-parrot displays a parrot in your terminal. There’s even an Australian option for those living down under!

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Docker

Getting Started with Docker: Dry – interactive CLI for Docker containers

November 16, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Software

Dry is a terminal application to manage and monitor Docker containers. It’s free and open source software.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Files and Permissions – Part 10

July 21, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, CLI

In this article we’ll take you through the basics of files and permissions. We’ll use the ls command. Part of the Linux for Starters series.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Get Started with the Terminal – Part 9

July 12, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, CLI, Software

What’s a shell? What’s a terminal? The shell is a program that takes commands from the keyboard and gives them to the operating system to perform.

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Termux

Best Free Android Apps: Termux – terminal emulator and Linux environment

March 6, 2021 Eilidih Parris Android

Termux offers both a capable terminal emulator and a extremely useful Linux environment on your Android device.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: cornyjokes – corny jokes for the terminal

January 22, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Harmless fun with corny jokes in your terminal. Part of the Linux Candy series.

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butterfly

butterfly – web terminal based on websocket and tornado

December 28, 2020 Steve Emms Reviews, Software

butterfly is an xterm compatible terminal that runs in your web browser. butterfly is free and open source software.

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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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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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Terminal Image Viewer

Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal

September 18, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Terminal Image Viewer is a small program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters. It’s free and open source software.

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Moving Forward with Linux

Now and Then: What happened to 3 promising open source Linux terminal emulators?

September 12, 2020 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

This is a new feature that looks at the progress made by open source software which appeared highly promising. Have they reached production quality, are they best-of-breed in their field, or only remembered like fingerprints on an abandoned handrail? We look at 3 terminal emulators.

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cointop

cointop – monitor cryptocurrencies in the terminal

August 14, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Financial, Reviews, Software, Utilities

cointop is a fast and lightweight interactive terminal based UI application for tracking and monitoring cryptocurrency coin stats in real-time.

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Termgraph

Termgraph – draw basic graphs in the terminal

August 7, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific, Software, Utilities

Termgraph is a command-line tool which draws basic graphs in the terminal. Termgraph is free and open source software and written in Python.

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System Administration

Excellent System Utilities: Glances – CLI curses-based monitoring tool

July 27, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software, Utilities

Glances is a system administration tool that replaces a whole host of command-line utilities. Here’s our review of Glances.

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Raspberry Pi 4 - Terminal Emulators

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Terminal Emulators – Week 35

June 24, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Utilities

For this week’s blog, Luke examines terminal emulators on the Raspberry Pi 4.

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Minase

Minase – SIXEL-based terminal file manager

May 25, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Minase is a terminal file manager that uses libsixel, an encoder/decoder implementation for DEC SIXEL graphics. Minase is free and open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Steam Locomotive – fun command for your terminal

March 30, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

Steam Locomotive is a fun command that’s designed to teach you one thing. Stop mistyping ls!

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