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Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jan 30, 2025

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Clock - LinuxLinks

=> ↺ Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Clock - LinuxLinks

Windows Clock is a time management app offering alarms, world clocks, timers, a stopwatch, and focus sessions.
Windows Clock is proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

mnotify - simple Matrix CLI client - LinuxLinks

=> ↺ mnotify - simple Matrix CLI client - LinuxLinks

It was developed for the use case of sending notifications from a headless server. The binary is called mn. The output is always JSON.
The output format is column based, the column separator is always | enabling awk magic. Every command that produces output understands the -J or –json switch. On each line one JSON object is printed.
This is free and open source software.

CmdCompass - collect, learn, recall terminal commands - LinuxLinks

=> ↺ CmdCompass - collect, learn, recall terminal commands - LinuxLinks

cmdCompass is a command manager/notebook, enabling users to organize commands into collections, apply tags, define templates with dynamic variables, and view Linux Man (manual) pages with automatic command option highlighting.
CmdCompass offers a GUI.
This is free and open source software.

YASnippet - template system for Emacs - LinuxLinks

=> ↺ YASnippet - template system for Emacs - LinuxLinks

It allows you to type an abbreviation and automatically expand it into function templates. Bundled language templates include: C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, Ruby, SQL, LaTeX, HTML, CSS and more. The snippet syntax is inspired from TextMate’s syntax.
Snippet collections can be stored in plain text files. They are arranged by sub-directories naming snippet tables. These mostly name Emacs major mode names.
This is free and open source software.

ehh - CLI tool to help remember commands - LinuxLinks

=> ↺ ehh - CLI tool to help remember commands - LinuxLinks

ehh is a command-line tool for remembering Linux / terminal commands.
Store and run any command inside ehh.
This is free and open source software.

KAlgebra - graphing calculator - LinuxLinks

=> ↺ KAlgebra - graphing calculator - LinuxLinks

KAlgebra is an application that can replace your graphing calculator.
It has numerical, logical, symbolic, and analysis features that let you calculate mathematical expressions on the console and graphically plot the results in 2D or 3D. KAlgebra is rooted in the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML); however, one does not need to know MathML to use KAlgebra.
This is free and open source software.

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