terminal-parrot displays a parrot in your terminal. There’s even an Australian option for those living down under!
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Tag: terminal
Getting Started with Docker: Dry – interactive CLI for Docker containers
Dry is a terminal application to manage and monitor Docker containers. It’s free and open source software.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Files and Permissions – Part 10
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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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Get Started with the Terminal – Part 9
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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Best Free Android Apps: Termux – terminal emulator and Linux environment
Termux offers both a capable terminal emulator and a extremely useful Linux environment on your Android device.
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Linux Candy: cornyjokes – corny jokes for the terminal
Harmless fun with corny jokes in your terminal. Part of the Linux Candy series.
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butterfly – web terminal based on websocket and tornado
butterfly is an xterm compatible terminal that runs in your web browser. butterfly is free and open source software.
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GoTTy – turn CLI tools into web applications
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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colorls – turbocharged alternative to ls
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 – display images in a terminal
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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Now and Then: What happened to 3 promising open source Linux terminal emulators?
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 – monitor cryptocurrencies in the terminal
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 – draw basic graphs in the terminal
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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Excellent System Utilities: Glances – CLI curses-based monitoring tool
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: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Terminal Emulators – Week 35
For this week’s blog, Luke examines terminal emulators on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Minase – SIXEL-based terminal file manager
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: Steam Locomotive – fun command for your terminal
Steam Locomotive is a fun command that’s designed to teach you one thing. Stop mistyping ls!
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Podcasts – Week 22
Podcasts are big business. We see celebrities, influencers, journalists, academics, one man and his dog owning a microphone and mixing desk produce regular podcast shows. How does the RPI4 fare as a podcast player?
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Linux Candy: tetris – terminal interface for Tetris
tetris is a terminal interface for Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov.
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Excellent Utilities: cheat.sh – community driven cheat sheet
cheat.sh offers unified access to the best community driven documentation repositories of the world via curl/browser interface. There’s also an installable utility for more flexibility.
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