Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 03, 2024

• Butterfly - cross-platform note-taking app - LinuxLinks

  Butterfly is a note taking app where your ideas come first. It provides a simple UI with powerful customization.

  You can paint, add texts, and export them easily on every device.

  This is free and open source software.

• pik - terminal-based colour picker - LinuxLinks

  pik is a color picker for the terminal.

  Here are the program’s keybindings:

  h, l, b, w, [, ], H, L: change current slider value. j, k: change focused slider. i: cycle input mode (RGB, HSL). o: cycle output mode (RGB, HEX, HSL). y: copy to the clipboard. p: paste from the clipboard. enter: quit and print current colour. q: quit : redraw

  This is free and open source software.

• Diagon - transforms markdown-style expression into an ascii-art representation - LinuxLinks

  Diagon is an interactive interpreter. It transforms markdown-style expression into an ascii-art representation.

  It uses WebAssembly, HTML and CSS to make a Web Application. There’s also a command line interface and a JavaScript library, for personal and 3rd party tools.

  This is free and open source software.

• tdo - opinionated command-line note-taking system - LinuxLinks

  tdo is a opinionated, command line based note-taking system.

  This is free and open source software.

• FlexGet - multipurpose automation download tool - LinuxLinks

  We evaluated FlexGet using Manjaro, an Arch-based distro, as well as the ubiquitous Ubuntu.

  With Manjaro, Pamac (Manjaro’s front-end installation tool) lets us install from the Arch User Repository (AUR).

  The AUR is a community-driven repository. It contains package descriptions (PKGBUILDs) that allow users to compile a package from source with makepkg and then install it via the in-house pacman, a lightweight, simple and fast package manager that allows for continuously upgrading the entire system with one command