NewsFlash is a program designed to complement an already existing web-based RSS reader account.
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Category: Reviews
Excellent Utilities: tldr – simplified and community-driven man pages
The tldr project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages.
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Haruna – video player using libmpv
Haruna is a modern-looking QML-based front-end to mpv. Here’s our review. Haruna is free and open source software.
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vizex – visualize disk space and disk usage
vizex is a command line interface program that shows how much free disk space you have. vizex is free and open source software.
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Lucas Chess – play and train chess
Lucas Chess is a chess GUI. It lets you play against lots of chess engines and train to improve your game.
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Excellent Utilities: duf – disk usage utility
duf is a simple disk usage utility that offers a more attractive representation than the classic df utility. It’s written in Go.
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Videomass – cross-platform GUI for FFmpeg and youtube-dl
Videomass is a cross-platform GUI for FFmpeg and youtube-dl. Here’s our verdict on this open source program.
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Linux Candy: Fondo – wallpaper tool
Fondo lets you quickly find beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash. Enjoy your new wallpaper with a single click.
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GabTag – audio tagging tool
GabTag is an audio tagging tool written in GTK 3, which makes it friendly for GTK based desktop users. GabTag is free and open source.
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qytdl – Qt frontend for Youtube-DL
qytdl (long-form: qYoutube-DL) is a Qt frontend to Youtube-DL. Here’s our verdict on this open source program.
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Foliate – simple and modern GTK eBook viewer
Foliate is a simple and modern eBook viewer written in JavaScript. Here’s our review of this free and open source software.
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HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini Desktop PC – Games – Week 6
This is a weekly blog looking at the HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini Desktop PC running Linux. We put some free games through their paces.
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HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini Desktop PC – Multiple Operating Systems – Week 5
We examine hardware virtualization, dual booting, as well as using a compatibility layer.
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HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini Desktop PC – Hardware Acceleration in Firefox – Week 4
For this weekly blog we set up hardware graphics acceleration in Firefox.
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Tuner – radio station player
Tuner is billed as a minimalist radio station player. It’s free and open source software written in Vala. Designed for elementary OS it runs on other popular Linux distros.
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