catspeak is a command-line tool that generates an ASCII picture with a message. It’s a cowsay like program of a speaking cat.
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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Power Consumption
For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux.
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CLIAMP – retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp
CLIAMP is billed as a retro-inspired terminal music player influenced by the classic Winamp 2.x era. It’s really cool!
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Receiver – Linux tool to enjoy 30,000+ verified radio stations
Receiver is an excellent program. With a bit more development, it’ll replace Shortwave, Tuner and Transistor as my go to GUI internet radio player.
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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: BIOS
This is a new series looking at the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux. I take a look at the laptop’s BIOS.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: February 2026 Updates
February 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Linux Soundboards
A soundboard is a useful tool that showcases various sound clips—think effects, jingles, voice snippets, and music—arranged in a grid layout for easy access.
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Linux Candy: tanuki – hourly animal crossing vibes
tanuki is a small GUI program that plays the hourly music from Animal Crossing on your computer.
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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Benchmarks
I run a series of benchmarks on the newly released Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus. It’s a very capable laptop.
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Trix Player – Linux music player built with Rust
Trix Player (or Trix) is a lightweight, high-performance music player written in Rust. Aimed at Linux users who favor the terminal
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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Specifications
This is a new series looking at the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux. I grill the laptop using the inxi tool.
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tmuzika – Terminal music player for Linux
tmuzika aims to offer quick and simple music playback directly in the terminal, with full keyboard control.
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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Hardware Review
The Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus positions itself as a lightweight, mid-range productivity machine that blends premium materials with good performance.
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vice – air traffic control simulator
vice is an air traffic control simulator, focused on TRACON. It presents a STARS-like interface, but with simulated traffic and other controllers.
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lsu – view systemd service units
lsu is a terminal user interface for viewing systemd service units and their associated journal logs.
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17 Best Free and Open Source GUI Matrix Clients
Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication over IP. Here’s our recommended free and open source GUI Matrix clients.
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PimersusOS – Debian-based Linux distribution
PimersusOS is a lightweight Linux environment created primarily as a base for Pimersus Browser. It’s based on Debian.
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5 Best Free and Open Source TypeScript Object-Relational Mapping Software
ORM is a programming technique for converting data between incompatible type systems using object-oriented languages.
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ColorSmith – color picker tool
ColorSmith is billed as a professional color management suite for designers, developers, and digital artists. Built with Qt for Linux.
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RengeOS is a minimal, Arch Linux–based operating system
RengeOS is a minimal, Arch Linux–based operating system focused on performance, maintainability, and a hackable design.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Web Hosting Control Panels
Web hosting control panels offer an attractive solution to developers and designers that host multiple web sites on virtual private servers and dedicated servers.
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EasyPlayer – simple video and audio player
EasyPlayer is a lightweight multimedia player for Linux. It originated as a small spin-off component of the VideoCut project
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6 Best Free and Open Source Software KVM Switches
The main function of a KVM switch is to control, switch between, and manage multiple PCs or servers via a single keyboard, monitor and mouse
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Glyph – install fonts from Google Fonts GitHub Repo
Glyph is an app for installing fonts from Google Fonts Github Repo written in Python, using GTK4 and Libadwaita.
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13 Best Free and Open Source Java Micro-Frameworks
This article examines the best Java micro-frameworks. Micro means the framework is small, with little or no tools and libraries.
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tTune – guitar tuning app
tTune is a stylized, keyboard oriented guitar tuning app right in your terminal.
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e1s – manage AWS ECS resources
e1s is a terminal application to easily browse and manage AWS ECS resources, supports both Fargate and EC2 ECS launch types.
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imgcat – output images in the terminal
imgcat displays images and gifs in your terminal emulator.
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meteor – tool to help write conventional commits with git
Meteor is a simple, highly customisable CLI tool that helps you to write conventional commits with git.
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Subscribi – keep tabs on your subscriptions
Subscribi keeps tabs on your subs. This program helps you organize and overview your subscriptions.
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preFlight – advanced 3D printing slicer
preFlight is an advanced 3D printing slicer built for precision and performance.
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