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ncmpcpp – featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc

ncmpcpp is a terminal-based MPD client with a user interface that seeks inspiration from ncmpc and shares a lot of similarities. But it adds some useful features.

Carbon Player – desktop media player

Carbon Player is a cross-platform media player written in JavaScript and uses Electron, an open-source software framework.

12 Useful Free and Open Source Git Tools

Git is one of a number of open source revision control systems available for Linux. Git is frequently regarded by many developers to be the finest version control tool available.

Linux at Home: Creative Writing with Linux

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Jan 14, 2021 2:08 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Now is a great time to take up a new hobby. How about spending your time penning a classic novel or screenplay?

mpdevil – simple music browser for MPD

mpdevil is a GTK front-end for MPD. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.

Linux Candy: WallpaperDownloader – download, change, manage wallpapers

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Jan 8, 2021 8:36 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
WallpaperDownloader is open source software that allows users to download wallpapers from different remote locations automatically.

theBeat - audio player

theBeat is an audio player that’s based on Phonon, the multimedia API provided by KDE and is the standard abstraction for handling multimedia streams within KDE software.

Linux at Home: Digital Art with Linux

Now is a great time to take up a new hobby. How about digital art? Instead of painting on canvas or paper, digital art software allows you to paint and draw directly onto a computer, which has a number of amazing advantages.

Linux Candy: BobRossQuotes - collection of quotes from Bob Ross

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Jan 1, 2021 1:51 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux, Python
Robert Norman Ross (Bob Ross) was an American painter, art instructor and television personality. Famous for his delightful hippie persona, his popular PBS television show The Joy of Painting (1983-94) brought him to the attention of the masses.

Silverjuke - jukebox for the desktop

My attention to Silverjuke was reignited by one of our visitors. I had tried this software a few years ago. It’s a music and video player written in C++ and C. Let’s see how it fares.

butterfly - web terminal based on websocket and tornado

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Dec 28, 2020 6:50 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews, Tutorial; Groups: Linux
butterfly is an xterm compatible terminal that runs in your web browser.

LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2020

It's common knowledge that Christmas is a time for merriment, goodwill to everyone, and above all a time for lists. So there's no better time to compile a list for the year. Once you've digested everything below, you can plan your New Year resolutions!

Linux Candy: chucknorris – Chuck Norris jokes in your terminal

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Dec 21, 2020 11:44 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Python
Carlos Ray “Chuck” Norris is an American martial artist, actor, film producer, and screenwriter. Chuck Norris followed in the footsteps of Bruce Lee to become a popular action star on the big screen, before having his greatest success on television as the star of “Walker, Texas Ranger”.

espanso – smart and efficient text expander

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Dec 18, 2020 8:14 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
espanso is a text expander, software that detects when you type a specific keyword and replaces it with something else. espanso is free and open source written in Rust.

Stars and Stripes: Facebook and Linux

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Dec 17, 2020 9:22 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
This is the second in our series spotlighting large institutions in the USA and how they are embracing Linux and open source.

Gromit-MPX - desktop annotation tool

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Dec 12, 2020 1:23 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Gromit-MPX (GRaphics Over Miscellaneous Things) is a utility to make annotations on the desktop. It’s a multi-pointer port of the original Gromit annotation tool, and uses the Multi-Pointer X.org feature.

Now and Then: What happened to DFileManager?

  • LinuxLinks.com; By LinuxLinks (Posted by sde on Dec 9, 2020 10:53 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Back in January 2015 we carried a blog post about DFileManager noting it was a real gem of a file manager sporting a unique Cover Flow display, together with an accessible bookmark system and customizable thumbnail preview for media files, but absent from the standard Ubuntu repositories.

ampd – web-based MPD client

ampd is a web-based client for MPD. It is built with Angular and Spring Boot. ampd is cross-platform software. Here's our review.

Pogo – minimalist music player

Pogo is billed as a fast and minimalist audio player for Linux. It’s written in Python and uses GTK+ and GStreamer, the latter is a pipeline-based multimedia framework that links together a wide variety of media processing systems to complete complex workflows.

Now and Then: The Fate of 15 More Linux Distributions

Due to Linux’s open source nature, there are many hundreds of actively maintained distributions or ‘distros’ of the OS. Linux distros are like Linux software in general. They come and (some) go.

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