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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basedpyright – fork of pyright
Basedpyright is a fork of pyright with various type checking improvements, pylance features and more.
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Leonardo – media conversion application
Leonardo is a media conversion application that provides a graphical interface for converting audio and video files using FFmpeg.
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Sunder – desktop YouTube music client
Sunder is a native desktop music player that streams from YouTube without the bloat.
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18 Top Free and Open Source Rust Frontend Web Frameworks
Rust is a systems programming language that runs fast, prevents segmentation faults, and guarantees thread safety. We pick the best free Rust frontend web frameworks.
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MX Cleanup – GUI for system cleanup and maintenance
MX Cleanup is a graphical system maintenance utility that helps users reclaim disk space by removing unnecessary files from the system.
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6 Best Free GUI Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files
We feature free and open source software that lets you find and remove the duplicate files.
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Netpala – Golang based Wi-Fi manager
Netpala is a lightweight (hopefully) terminal-friendly NetworkManager wrapper written in Go. It’s a clone of Impala.
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14 Best Free and Open Source GUI Emoji Pickers
An emoji is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages.
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Mezzotone – convert images into ASCII art
Mezzotone is a TUI application that converts images and animated GIFs into ASCII or Unicode art directly from the command line.
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23 Best Free and Open Source Linux TUI File Explorers
A terminal UI based (TUI) file explorer is software which lets you explore the file system. We recommend the best open source options.
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squix – manage and execute SQL queries across multiple databases
Squix is a minimal command-line database manager that allows users to manage connections and execute SQL queries across multiple databases.
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Top 10 Programming Tools for Kids
The art of programming is often perceived as being a difficult activity. Here’s great free and open source tools to help kids start coding.
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Vykar – fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups in Rust
Vykar is a backup utility that creates encrypted, deduplicated snapshots of data and stores them in local or remote repositories.
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Top 13 Web Server Performance Testing Tools
Web server benchmarking is a way of determining the performance of a web server. Here’s our recommended open source solutions.
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xdgctl – TUI to manage XDG default applications
xdgctl is a terminal user interface that lets users view and manage XDG default applications and MIME associations on Linux systems.
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29 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Application Launchers
Application launchers play an integral part in making the Linux desktop a more productive environment to work and play.
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WorkTUImer – keyboard-driven TUI for time-tracking
WorkTUImer is a simple, keyboard-driven TUI for time-tracking that allows you to quickly add time blocks.
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GoPlaying – TUI showing what’s playing
GoPlaying is a Now Playing TUI written in Go. Display currently playing music with album artwork and auto-extracted colors in your terminal.
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4 Best Free and Open Source Linux TUI Application Launchers
Application launchers play an integral part in making the Linux desktop a more productive environment to work and play.
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RustLock – Wayland screen locker
RustLock is a command-line tool written in Rust that allows users to quickly lock their Linux session from the terminal.
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