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cronopete is a backup utility for Linux, modeled after Apple’s Time Machine. It aims to simplify the creation of periodic backups.

pimpd2 is a command-line based MPD client. This is free and open source software written in Perl.

Adobe Fill & Sign lets users fill out PDF documents on a smartphones and tablet and share them directly with others.

Computer typesetting systems let you generate high quality documentation including books with minimal effort.

Librum is billed as software designed to make reading enjoyable and straightforward for everyone.

The purpose of this roundup is to focus on web servers that are designed for mostly static content. For example, these types of web server are well placed to serve the content of a ftp server via http.

Sherlock is billed as a powerful command line tool to find usernames across a large number social networks. It requires Python 3.6 or higher.

In networking, tunnels are a method for discretely transmitting data across a network using protocols that are not supported by that network.

CoverGrid is a client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). It concentrates on albums, and focuses on offering a different experience.

For this article, we’re testing the gaming capabilities of this tiny PC using Ubuntu 23.10.

Like many types of software, the selection of a favorite music player is, to some extent, dependent on personal preferences. Nevertheless, we are confident that the applications featured in this article represent the most appealing music players.

xfmpc is a graphical GTK+ Music Player Daemon (MPD) client focusing on a low footprint.

fooyin is a customisable music player that strongly resembles foobar2000. Unlike foobar2000, fooyin is open source and available for Linux.

Durdraw is a command-line ASCII, Unicode and ANSI art editor which seeks inspiration from classic ANSI software such as TheDraw, Aciddraw and Pablodraw.

A photo collage is a collection of pictures that are put together to make a single picture. PhotoCollage is a small tool which lets you create your very own photo collage posters.

This article spotlights alternative tools to chmod, software that changes file mode bits.

Thorium Reader is a cross platform desktop reading app, based on the Readium Desktop toolkit. It’s written mostly in TypeScript and published under an open source license.

Webcams spice up online communication by offering real-time video chat and webcasting.

This is the fourth article in our series looking at a FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC running Linux. This machine has an Intel N100 processor, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD. It’s an extremely inexpensive machine costing little more than a Raspberry Pi 5 yet it’s much more powerful. It sounds like an ideal low cost machine to run Linux on the desktop.

This article focuses on font renderers for Linux. Font rendering is the process by which operating systems take text and turn it into display text.