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Chess Engines

Laser – UCI-compliant chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Laser is a UCI-compliant chess engine. This is a command-line engine only.

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Chess Engines

Xiphos – UCI chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Xiphos is a UCI chess engine. The project is inspired by Garry Kasparov’s “Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins.”

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Igel – UCI chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Igel is a free UCI chess engine forked from GreKo 2018.01.

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Nemorino – UCI chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Nemorino is a UCI chess engine. This is one of the strongest free and open source engines.

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RubiChess – chess engine written in C++

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

RubiChess is a very strong UCI-compliant chess engine. RubiChess is free and open source software which plays a very strong game.

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Lc0 – Leela Chess Zero – neural network based chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Leela Chess Zero (Lc0) is a neural network based chess engine. It needs a chess GUI to use beside it.

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Stockfish – strong open source chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Stockfish is an open source chess engine derived from Glaurung 2.1. It is not a complete chess program.

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GitBook – publish beautiful docs

November 9, 2023 Eilidih Parris CLI, Web Apps

GitBook is a command line tool (and Node.js library) for building beautiful books using GitHub/Git and Markdown (or AsciiDoc).

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libjxl – reference implementation of JPEG XL

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

JPEG XL is a royalty-free raster-graphics file format that supports both lossy and lossless compression.

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mdBook – create modern online books from Markdown files

November 8, 2023 Eilidih Parris CLI, Web Apps

mdBook is a command line tool and Rust crate to create books using Markdown (as by the CommonMark specification) files.

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Audio

caudec – multiprocess audio converter supporting many formats

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

caudec is a command-line utility for Linux and OS Ⅹ that transcodes (converts) audio files from one format (codec) to another.

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Batch Renamers

edir – command line utility to rename, remove, and copy filenames and directories

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

edir is a command line utility to rename, remove, and copy filenames and directories using your text editor.

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Batch Renamers

vidir – edit of the contents of a directory in a text editor

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vidir allows editing of the contents of a directory in a text editor. If no directory is specified, the current directory is edited.

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Batch Renamers

rename – rename multiple files using Perl expressions

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rename is a utility that renames multiple files using Perl expressions.

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Batch Renamers

F2 – Command-line batch renaming tool

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

F2 is a cross-platform command-line tool for batch renaming files and directories quickly and safely.

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Statistics

PSPP – statistical analysis of sampled data

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

PSPP is a command-line program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It is intended as a free replacement of the proprietary program, SPSS.

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Audio Editors

mp3splt – split mp3, ogg vorbis and native FLAC files

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mp3splt is a command-line utility to split mp3, ogg vorbis and FLAC files without decoding, selecting begin/end time.

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Audio Editors

SoX – Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Sound eXchange (known as SoX), is a free cross-platform digital audio editor, particularly suited to making quick, simple edits and to batch processing.

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Network Analyzers

tcpdump – command-line packet analyzer

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

tcpdump is a common computer network debugging tool that runs under the command line. Intercept and display TCP/IP and other packets.

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Git Clients

gitin – a commit, branch, status explorer for Git

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

gitin is a minimalist free and open source tool that lets you explore a git repository from the command line. There are fuzzy searches, and lots more.

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