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bauh – manage your Linux applications

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Jan 19, 2024 8:13 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux, Python
In this article, we’re reviewing bauh, a graphical interface that lets you manage your software. It supports Snaps, Flatpaks, AppImages, deb packages, web applications, and even packages for the Arch distro.

Video Downloader – frontend for yt-dlp

Funky developers have created applications that allow you to bypass the web-only barrier of YouTube.

HiFile – cross-platform file manager

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Jan 16, 2024 9:22 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
HiFile is a Qt6-based orthodox file manager and therefore sports a classic dual-pane interface.

Pika Backup – app focused on backups of personal data

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Jan 16, 2024 2:31 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Pika Backup is software which aims to make regular backups using GNOME as easy as possible. It’s a graphical frontend to the popular BorgBackup software.

Surya - multilingual document OCR toolkit

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Jan 15, 2024 3:10 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Surya is billed as a multilingual document OCR toolkit. It’s a CLI-based utility that can be used with a CPU or GPU. To run Surya you’ll need Python 3.9 or higher and PyTorch, the latter provides libraries for basic tensor manipulation on CPUs or GPUs, a built-in neural network library, model training utilities, and a multiprocessing library that can work with shared memory.

Synology Hyper Backup Explorer - desktop tool

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Jan 14, 2024 1:26 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Hyper Backup Explorer is a desktop tool for browsing, decrypting, and extracting different versions of backup data in Hyper Backup repositories. It’s a Qt-based graphical utility.

Gear Lever – utility to manage AppImages

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Jan 13, 2024 8:30 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux, Python
There are quite a few programs that let us integrate AppImages into our system. One useful solution is Gear Lever. This is a utility written in Python and published under an open source license.

Media Downloader – frontend to multiple CLI-based tools

Media Downloader is a Qt/C++ based GUI frontend to multiple CLI-based tools that deal with downloading online media.

pipe-viewer – lightweight YouTube client

pipe-viewer is a lightweight YouTube client for Linux, without requiring an API key. It offers both a CLI and GUI. It’s written in Perl and published under an open source software.

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Lightroom Classic

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Jan 6, 2024 4:25 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Adobe Lightroom Classic is a creative image organization and image manipulation software. This photo editing app is optimised for the desktop.

Glide - simple and minimalistic media player

Glide is designed to be a simple media player. It doesn’t have a ton of features. That’s by design. It’s cross-platform, free and open source software.

Dopamine – Electron-based music player

I’ve reviewed the vast majority of music players for Linux. But there always seems more out there to explore.

GridPlayer - play multiple videos simultaneously

GridPlayer is Python-based software which lets you watch videos side-by-side. At the heart of GridPlayer is VLC and Qt.

Best Free and Open Source Software: December 2023 Updates

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Dec 31, 2023 9:43 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion. Open source software at its finest.

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple News

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Dec 29, 2023 4:19 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Apple News is a news aggregator application that helps you to stay up to date with news and information. News is proprietary software but not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

Synology Hyper Backup Tutorial

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Dec 28, 2023 5:52 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
This article looks at Hyper Backup, software which helps protect shared folder data, packages, as well as Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs).

4 Best Free and Open Source Console BitTorrent Clients

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Dec 26, 2023 11:42 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.

LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2023

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Dec 24, 2023 7:14 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
We’ve trawled through our statistics and discovered our 10 most popular posts/series that saw the highest page views this year. Only stories published this year are included.

7 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Download Managers

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Dec 23, 2023 5:38 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
A download manager is a type of software that manages the downloading of files from the Internet. The best download managers help make the process easier and quicker.

Linux Candy: christmasfetch – a festive command-line utility

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Dec 23, 2023 8:29 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
As Christmas is fast approaching, it’s the right time for a small festive utility. Step forward christmasfetch. It’s free and open source software written in the Go programming language.

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