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One thing a newcomer to Linux learns quickly is that they’re never limited to a single way of performing a task. And killing processes is no exception. In this article, we’ll look at an alternative to kill. It’s called fkill. It’s billed as offering a quicker and easier way to terminating processes.
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mdless is a utility that provides a formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files in a console. The software is free and open source.
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Abricotine is an open source, cross-platform Markdown editor built for the desktop with inline preview functionality.
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MapSCII is a Node.js based Vector Tile to Braille and ASCII renderer for xterm-compatible terminals. It’s billed as the whole world in your console.
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Halo lets you view the weather in your town/city and check out the forecast and historic temperature trends. Halo identifies your location based on your IP address. But you can also add other locations.
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Paperwork is designed to simplify the management of your paperwork. The software lets you scan or import your documents, and quickly find what you want, wrapped together in a GTK interface.
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This is the second in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities including tools that boost your productivity, help you manage your workflow, and lots more besides. For this article, we’ll put lnav under the spotlight.
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Unison is a file-synchronization tool that allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
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This is the first in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities. For the first article, we put tmux under the spotlight.
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Shallot is billed as a file manager with the maximum degree of flexibility and customization. It’s Qt-based. We put it to the test together with 15 other Qt-based file managers.
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We covered many high quality file managers in our Qt File Managers Roundup and GTK File Managers Roundups. But there are graphical non-Qt and non-GTK file managers available. Here’s our favorites.
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We recently visited 15 Qt file managers. This article reviews 15 Gtk file managers.
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It makes sense to use Qt based software with KDE. Benefits include memory savings, and better integration with the KDE desktop. However, if you prefer other desktop environments, these Qt file managers still work admirably. We review 15 Qt file managers.
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Latte is a dock based on Plasma frameworks that aims to offer an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and KDE Plasma widgets. It animates its contents by using parabolic zoom effect and tries to be as unobtrusive is possible.
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This is the latest in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities.
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