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cornyjokes is a terminal based program that tells you corny jokes. On each evocation of the program, you receive a corny joke and an ASCII graphic. Nothing more, nothing less.

Now is a great time to take up a new hobby. How about producing your own music? DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) is an important tool in your creative arsenal. A DAW is a computer program designed for editing, recording, mixing and mastering audio files. You can record your various instruments, MIDI controllers and vocals, lay down the tracks, rearrange, splice, cut, paste, add effects, and ultimately finalize the song you’ve got cooking for the world to hear.

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

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.

Now is a great time to take up a new hobby. How about spending your time penning a classic novel or screenplay?

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

WallpaperDownloader is open source software that allows users to download wallpapers from different remote locations automatically.

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.

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.

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.

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 is an xterm compatible terminal that runs in your web browser.

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!

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 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.

This is the second in our series spotlighting large institutions in the USA and how they are embracing Linux and open source.

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.

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