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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tar

We showcase free and open source alternatives to tar, the most widely used archiving utility in Linux systems.

fex is a command-line file explorer inspired by Vim, exa and fzf, built with quick exploration and navigation in mind.

We focus on the best personal finance software for Linux. We only feature open source goodness.

stagen is a simple experimental wlroots-based wayland compositor.

There are many graphical non-Qt and non-Gtk file managers available. This article examines 11 such file managers.

tere is a terminal file explorer. It is a faster alternative to using cd and ls to browse folders in your terminal.

Adding color and styling to terminal output helps make a command line interface more engaging, informative, and easy to understand.

TreeTag is a personal data manager. It stores information in a hierarchy and automatically positions items in the tree based on field values

ansi-colors is a fast Node.js library for terminal styling. It’s billed as a more performant drop-in replacement for chalk, with no dependencies.

Treemacs is a file and project explorer similar to NeoTree or vim’s NerdTree, but largely inspired by the Project Explorer in Eclipse.

vim-tree integrates good old tree into Vim and Nvim for all common operating systems.

Here are our favorite TypeScript-based web content management systems. They are all free and open source software.

logseq is a privacy-first, open-source knowledge management and note-taking software designed to enhance productivity

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at LinuxLinks.

Parabolic is a Qt and GTK-based utility which is a frontend for yt-dlp, a feature-rich audio/video downloader.