nyancat is an animated, color, ANSI-text program that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. It’s free and open source candy.
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Tag: C
Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn C
C is a general-purpose, procedural, portable, high-level programming language that is one of the most popular and influential languages. Read our recommended C tutorials.
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Linux Candy: CMatrix – terminal based “The Matrix”
CMatrix is an ncurses program that simulates the display from “The Matrix”, and is based on the screensaver from the movie’s website.
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Siren – text-based audio player
Siren is a text-based audio player with one of the lowest system footprints. Luke Baker reviews this free and open source music player.
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kitty – hardware-accelerated terminal emulator
kitty offers GPU-acceleration and is targeted at power keyboard users. It’s billed as a modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator. Here’s a concise review of this terminal emulator.
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cmus – free terminal-based audio player
This review looks at an alternative to musikcube. It’s called cmus. It shares many similarities with musikcube. Both are designed to run on a text-only user interface, reducing the resources required to run the application.
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15 Excellent Free Books to Learn C
C is a general-purpose, procedural, portable, high-level programming language that is one of the most popular and influential languages. Here’s our recommended free books to learn about C.
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GLava – OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer for desktop windows or backgrounds
GLava is an OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer primarily used for desktop windows or backgrounds. It’s free and open source software.
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Tizonia – powerful open source cloud music player for the Linux terminal
Tizonia offers access to Spotify, YouTube, Google Play Music, SoundCloud and more all from the command line. Free and open source software. Here’s my review of the software.
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Ninslash – a great fun open source 2D platform game needs YOU!
Ninslash is a free multiplayer 2D survival shooter based on another game called Teeworlds, a highly revered retro multiplayer shooter. Read why you should download Ninslash today!
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Goodvibes – internet radio player
Goodvibes is billed as a lightweight internet radio player offering a simple way to access your favorite radio stations. Here’s my review of this open source radio player.
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Excellent Utilities: tmux – terminal multiplexer software
This is the first in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities. For the first article, we put tmux under the spotlight.
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Essential System Tools: VeraCrypt – Strong disk encryption software
VeraCrypt is a free open source cross-platform disk encryption software that builds on the discontinued TrueCrypt.
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Essential System Tools: Firejail – Excellent Security Sandboxing
This article looks at Firejail, a SUID sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces, Linux capabilities and seccomp-bpf.
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Pragha Music Player – GTK+3 lightweight music player
Pragha Music Player is a music player is written in the C programming language, uses the GTK+ widget toolkit, and stores database in a SQLite3 database.
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