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Author: Steve Emms

Compositing Window Managers

wlmaker – Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

wlmaker is a Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker, an X11 window manager originally designed to integrate with GNUstep.

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SSD

diskus – compute disk usage

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diskus is a very simple program that computes the total size of the current directory. It is a parallelized version of du -sh..

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Technology

13 Best Free and Open Source Steganography Tools

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

We recommend steganography tools captured in a LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. All the software is free and open source goodness.

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Washington

wttr.in – curl the weather

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific

wttr.in is a console-based weather forecast service that offers lots of options including various information representation methods.

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Compositing Window Managers

niri – scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Niri is heavily inspired by PaperWM which implements scrollable tiling on top of GNOME Shell.

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System

Subiquity – installer framework for Ubuntu

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Subiquity is also the back end for the Ubuntu Desktop installer.

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Monitor System

vtop – graphical activity monitor for the command line

December 2, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vtop uses drawille to draw CPU and memory charts with Unicode braille characters, helping you visualize spikes.

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Batch Renamers

16 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Batch Renamers

December 2, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

This article showcases terminal based batch renamers. We only feature free and open source software.

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DreamQuest N100 Mini PC

DreamQuest N100 Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption

December 2, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this instalment in the series, we examine the power consumption of the DreamQuest N100 Mini PC and compare it to four other machines.

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Notes

Saber – notes app built for handwriting

December 2, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Saber is the notes app built for handwriting .It’s designed to be as simple and intuitive as possible

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