The Linux Portal Site
Over the years, I’ve tried almost every web browser available for Linux. For the AWOW AK41, my focus has rested primarily with Chrome and Firefox. I’ve used them extensively on the AK41 for the past 6 weeks browsing hundreds of web sites that are laden to the hilt with JavaScript.
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Byte is a GTK-based music player. It was created with the desire to make a good music player for elementary OS. It focuses on two aspects: features and design.
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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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For this week’s blog, Luke looks at gaming on the AWOW AK41 Mini PC. This tiny computer uses the Intel UHD Graphics 605, an integrated processor graphics unit from the Gemini Lake generation.
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Stretchly is a cross-platform Electron program that reminds you to take breaks when working on your computer. Stretchly is free and open source software.
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Buoh is a reader for online strips comics. It’s free and open source software.
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In this week’s blog, I look at some of the ways you can run programs from different operating systems on the AWOW AK41. I examine hardware virtualization, dual booting, as well as using a compatibility layer.
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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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Boxes is a text filter which can draw ASCII art boxes around its input text. It can spice up news posting, emails, documenting files, and much more.
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A weekly blog about the AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC. This week examines multimedia on this tiny PC including video, audio, and more.
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ExifCleaner lets you remove privacy-invading information from your photos. It’s a cross-platform tool that runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
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tint2 is a simple panel/taskbar made for window managers. It was specifically made for Openbox, a popular stacking window manager.
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In the first of a weekly series, Luke puts the AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC under the microscope. This tiny PC sports a Celeron J4115 processor, 8GB DDR4 RAM, triple display 4K@60Hz and NVMe SSD. The AWOW Mini PC has its Windows installation wiped and replaced with Linux.
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This article reviews DownZemAll! (DZA!), an open source standalone download manager.
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Fraidycat acts as a central hub for internet content. It supports a wide variety of services including Twitter, YouTube, SoundCloud, web sites, and more.
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