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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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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10 Best Free and Open Source Command-Line HTTP Clients
These clients let you download files over the internet from the command line. But they can also be used for many more interesting purposes.
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Lockbook – encrypted notebook
Lockbook lets you write notes, sketch ideas, and store files in one secure place. Share seamlessly, keep data synced, and access it.
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nm-tray – simple NetworkManager front end
nm-tray is a simple NetworkManager front end with information icon residing in system tray (like e.g. nm-applet).
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ddgst – hashing and checksum utility
ddgst is a cross-platform command-line hashing and checksum utility written in the D programming language.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Java Application Servers
We recommend the best free and open source Java-based Application Servers.
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Termy – minimal terminal emulator
Termy is a modern terminal emulator that focuses on minimalism, performance, and GPU-accelerated rendering.
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18 Best Free and Open Source Network Analyzers
A network analyzer (also known as a packet analyzer, packet sniffer, or protocol analyzer) is software that intercepts and logs traffic that passes over a computer network or part of a network.
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Aerion – graphical email client
Aerion is a standalone lightweight e-mail client inspired by Geary.
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10 Best Free and Open Source JavaScript Runtime Environments
The JavaScript runtime environment provides your scripts with utility libraries which can be used during execution.
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Vassal – game engine
Vassal is a game engine for building and playing online adaptations of board games and card games. It’s written in Java.
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5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Network Simulators
Network simulation is a technique whereby a software program replicates the behavior of a real network. We make our picks.
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lo – very small low-level JavaScript runtime
lo is a low-level JavaScript runtime.
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