exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.
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Category: Software
LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2019
We’ve run through our statistics, and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2019.
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Golly – exploring cellular automata like the Game of Life
Golly is a free and open source cross-platform application for exploring Conway’s Game of Life and many other types of cellular automata.
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Excellent Utilities: ripgrep – recursively search directories for a regex pattern
ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. It’s free and open source software.
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Linux Candy: CMatrix – terminal based “The Matrix”
CMatrix is an ncurses program that simulates the display from “The Matrix”, and is based on the screensaver from the movie’s website.
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nuclear – desktop music player focused on free streaming
nuclear is a modern music player (Electron based) focused on streaming from free sources. The software is released under a free and open source license.
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Essential System Tools: TLP – power management package
If you use Linux on a notebook, TLP is for you. It saves laptop battery power with a wide variety of features. There’s processor frequency scaling, Wifi power saving, hard disk advanced power management, GPU power management and much more.
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Linux Candy: lolcat – rainbows and unicorns
lolcat applies rainbow colors to text output in the terminal. It works in a similar way to the venerable cat command but jazzes things up.
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Siren – text-based audio player
Siren is a text-based audio player with one of the lowest system footprints. Luke Baker reviews this free and open source music player.
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Excellent Utilities: cheat.sh – community driven cheat sheet
cheat.sh offers unified access to the best community driven documentation repositories of the world via curl/browser interface. There’s also an installable utility for more flexibility.
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starship – elegant cross-shell prompt at your fingertips
starship is an intelligent and non-intrusive prompt for anyone who spends time at a shell. It’s free and open source software. Read our verdict.
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Excellent Utilities: Ananicy – auto nice daemon
Ananicy is a shell daemon created to manage processes’ IO and CPU priorities, with community-driven set of rules for popular applications. Here’s our review of this free and open source program.
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Excellent Utilities: Liquid Prompt – adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
Liquid Prompt gives you a nicely displayed prompt with useful information when you need it. It shows you what you need when you need it.
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Safe Eyes – protect your eyes from eye strain
Safe Eyes protect your eyes from eye strain using a simple and extensible break reminder. It’s designed to reduce and stop repetitive strain injury. It’s not just your eyes that need to take a break.
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cmus – free terminal-based audio player
This review looks at an alternative to musikcube. It’s called cmus. It shares many similarities with musikcube. Both are designed to run on a text-only user interface, reducing the resources required to run the application.
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