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5 Best Free and Open Source Text-Based Spotify Clients
These text-based Spotify clients lets you enjoy Spotify streaming without using the semi-official bloated app.
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10 Fun Free and Open Source ASCII Games – Part 2
There are no fancy graphics here, just great gameplay coupled with the urge of always having just one more play.
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10 Fun Free and Open Source ASCII Games
There are no fancy graphics here, just great gameplay coupled with the urge of always having just one more play.
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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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17 Best Free Console Based Linux Multimedia Apps
The vast majority of Linux users would never be satisfied without access to a graphical user interface. However, even in 2020 there remain many reasons why console based applications can be extremely desirable. Although console applications are very useful for updating, configuring, and repairing a system, their benefits are not only confined to system administration.
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Survey: Console Based Linux File Managers
In the field of system administration, Linux has bags of graphical file managers. However, some users prefer managing files from the shell, finding it the quickest way to navigate the file system and perform file operations. This is, in part, because console based file managers are more keyboard friendly, enabling users to perform file operations without using a mouse, and make it quicker to navigate the filesystem and issue commands in the console at the same time.
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21 Peerless ASCII Games
Linux has a raft of open source games. The vast majority of these games are atheistically pleasing. Popular games often have full motion video, vector graphics, 3D graphics, realistic 3D rendering, animation, texturing, a physics engine, and much more. Computer graphics have been advancing at a staggering pace. At the current rate of progress, in the next 10 years it may not be possible to distinguish computer graphics from reality.
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