For Linux and MacOS, Fresh is the best of both worlds - a terminal text editor with GUI-like options. I'm all for it.

Dinky is GUI-like with tabs and themes; Ne is keyboard-forward. Replace Nano with a modern alternative.

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The new pearOS distro is a Romanian project that picks up the concepts behind the original Pear Linux from 2011 and updates them. It's not going to turn the distro world upside down, but it's fun, ...

For instance, we use Jeena's TextEd instead of Apple's text editor. For browsers, email, chat, productivity, writing, and so on, we use FOSS and freeware apps, and wherever possible, ones that also ...

Sure, there are some big names on this list, particularly in the buzzy field of artificial intelligence, but the real ...

LocalSend is an open-source app that provides device-to-device transfers between Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux.

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Built by Sensia Technology, it was thin enough to hang like a tapestry or slip under bedding. Volume was modest, audio ...

AI agents have emerged from the lab, bringing promise and peril. A Carnegie Mellon University researcher explains what's ...

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