Git is an open source distributed version control system which was originally designed by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.
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Category: Utilities
Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Notepad
Notepad is a simple text editor; it creates and edits plain text documents. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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lsix – ls for images
lsix is like the ls command but for images.The tool shows thumbnails in a terminal using sixel graphics. It’s written in Bash.
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Excellent Utilities: navi – interactive cheatsheet tool
navi lets you to browse through cheatsheets (that you may write yourself or download from maintainers) and execute commands.
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jdFlatpakSnapshot – create snapshot of a Flatpak’s data
jdFlatpakSnapshot is a tool which lets you create a snapshot of the data of a Flatpak.
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6 Best Free and Open Source OCR Screen Capture Tools
This article highlights OCR powered screen-capture tools to capture information instead of images. We only feature open source software here.
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Obfuscate – utility to censor private information
Obfuscate is a simple GTK-based utility that’s designed to censor private information.
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Heatseeker – general-purpose fuzzy selector
Heatseeker is a rewrite of selecta, a general-purpose fuzzy selector.
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19 Best Free and Open Source Wallpaper Setters
Do you find your Linux desktop background rather mundane but have problems in finding attractive wallpapers?
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10 Best Free and Open Source Audio Converters
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 10 high quality free and open source Linux audio converters.
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SeaGOAT – semantic-code search engine
SeaGOAT is a local search tool that leverages vector embeddings to enable you to search your codebase semantically.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dig
This article spotlights alternative tools to dig. This is a DNS lookup utility.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Solutions for Home Automation
Home automation software lets you control and monitor common home and office appliances using a computer.
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Damask – automatically set wallpaper images
Damask is a simple utility that automatically sets wallpaper images by selecting images from a variety of sources.
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12 Best Free and Open Source GUI-Based Calendar Software
You don’t need a proprietary hosted solution for your calendar needs. There are open source projects offering a perfect fit.
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