xcowsay is a tiny utility that displays a cow with a speech bubble containing some text. It’s free and open source goodness.
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Category: Utilities
dutree – reclaim precious hard disk space
dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage analyzers?
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Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls
exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.
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gorss – simple RSS/Atom reader written in Golang
gorss is a simple free and open source RSS/Atom reader. It’s written in the Golang language. The program offers support for highlighting specific words.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – e-book Tools – Week 7
This week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog focuses on excellent free and open source e-book software that runs on this single-board computer.
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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: 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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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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Linux Candy: cacafire – Color ASCII Fire
The nights are drawing in. You want to feel warm and toasty. And nothing beats a log fire. cacafire displays burning ASCII art flames.
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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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