Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
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Linux Candy: wallust - create 16 color palettes - LinuxLinks
Linux Candy is a series of articles covering interesting eye candy software. We only feature open source software in this series.
Some of the programs in this series are purely cosmetic, frivolous pieces of fun. Candy at their finest. But we also include some programs that aren’t purely decorative.
wordle-tui - wordle in your terminal - LinuxLinks
wordle-tui provides a TUI for Wordle, a word guessing game. Each day you have to guess a new word. You have 6 attempts and each attempt you make reveals some information.
This is free and open source software.
FDNS - encrypted DNS proxy - LinuxLinks
FDNS is an encrypted DNS proxy designed for small networks and Linux desktops.
Lean and mean, it protects your computer from some of the most common cyber threats, while also improving privacy and the system performance.
This is free and open source software.
nwg-clipman - GUI for cliphist - LinuxLinks
wg-clipman is a GTK3-based GUI for Senan Kelly’s cliphist.
It provides access to previously copied items, as well as management of the clipboard history from a window opened on gtk-layer-shell. The program is intended for use with sway, Hyprland and other wlroots-based Wayland compositors.
This program is a part of the nwg-shell project.
This is free and open source software.
mu - maildir indexer and searcher - LinuxLinks
mu is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages stored in the Maildir-format. mu’s purpose in life is to help you to quickly find the messages you need; in addition, it allows you to view messages, extract attachments, create new maildirs, and so on.
After indexing your messages into a Xapian-database, you can search them using a custom query language. You can use various message fields or words in the body text to find the right messages.
This is free and open source software.
Printrun - suite of hosts for 3D printers and other CNC machines - LinuxLinks
Printrun consists of a suite of hosts for 3D printers and other CNC machines (printcore, pronsole and pronterface) and a small collection of helpful scripts.
This is free and open source software.
cramino - BAM/CRAM quality evaluation - LinuxLinks
cramino is a tool for quick quality assessment of cram and bam files, intended for long read sequencing.
This is free and open source software.