3 Neat Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (September 26

I just installed Linux on an old PC and you want to know how to get the most out of it? Or maybe want to do more in the terminal? I gathered free and open source software for Linux which is worth an installation this weekend.

With these recommendations, I try to include a mixture of information, practical and entertaining applications. I install them and I check that they are actively maintained by application developers. You don’t want to be surprised by broken and obsolete software, and all those I tested to make sure that their basic functionality is working.

Journald navigator: easily find errors and system accidents

When you want to examine Systemd journals – the continuous newspaper of everything that happens on most Linux devices, the conventional approach is to go to the terminal. You must familiarize yourself with Systemctl orders just to read your Linux System newspapers.

With the right software, however, you can forget the Systemctl commands. Journald Browser (also called Kjournald), developed by the KDE team, offers you a graphic window to click, showing you easily filtering Systemd reviews. Using it for me is a bit like using the Windows event viewer when I check the Windows BSOD newspapers.

You can filter by process if you need to know what is going on with specific software, or by type of input (priority) if you want to identify the source of a crash or stop. Everything is also coded by color to facilitate skimming. There is a simple drop -down menu in the upper left corner to switch between the newspapers, which are all dated and horoded so that you can quickly jump to the session on which you perform a criminalic.

You can find Journald Browser in many Linux standards:

sudo pacman -S kjournald #Arch
sudo dnf install kjournald #Fedora
sudo zypper install kjournald #openSUSE

You may notice that there is no mention of an appropriate package. Surprisingly, I could not find Journald Browser in the Debian or Ubuntu standards. However, I was able to find it on the Snap Distro Angnostic store.

Outside: Check the weather in your terminal

If you always wanted to know what time he was in London, Dubai, or beyond the glass window glass, but you don’t want to leave the Linux command line, look outside. Well, look has out.

External utility is a versatile meteorological tool written in rust for the terminal. You can use an command with options to specify a city, your favorite measurement unit, and you will get the impression of the weather and current forecasts. For example:

outside -o simple -l 'Los Angeles, US' -u imperial

This will give you an update in a line on the current weather at the, with wind speed, the chance of precipitation and the temperature in Farenheit. You can also use these other options with -O to modify the output:

• TUI: See a graphic tui (the default value if -O is not specified, illustrated above)

• Detailed: see a very detailed list of weather information

• JSON: Get detailed information in JSON format

• Waybar: Get the configuration of a module in the Waybar application

Aside from the unique relationships, however, the graphic tui is very useful if you want a live meteorological dashboard. You can sign up several cities and switch to each other whenever you need to see what time looks like your friend in Finland.

To install outside, you will have to go to the exterior version page on Github and download the DEB file if you are on a distribution of Debian or Ubuntu, or the RPM file if you are on Fedora or OpenSuse. Anyone can download the binary or use the cargo by following the outside installation instructions on Github.

Strawberry: a powerful music player

If you listen to music from many sources, such as local storage, disc discs and remote servers, you should probably use the strawberry. It is a free and open source musical application that is full of features and support for various media sources.

He is able to generate “intelligent” reading lists according to your listening habits or changes in your music library. You can listen to the Internet radio, including dozens of channels by playing all kinds of music that you can immediately connect with the strawberry. He also finds lyrics and illustrations for you so that you can enjoy your music without digesting metadata.

I liked in particular that it supports the subsonic API, with which my server NextCloud which stores a large part of my music can serve music. This means that I don’t even need my music stored on my Linux computer; I can just connect and start broadcasting directly from my music collection in NextCloud.

The design of the application has a Windows 7 design which could be off -putting for some, but others can find charming. I don’t care about it; I just like that he plays my music.

You can install the strawberry from most Linux standards:

sudo apt install strawberry #Debian and Ubuntu
sudo pacman -S strawberry #Arch
sudo dnf install strawberry #Fedora
sudo zypper install strawberry #openSUSE

If these applications do not entirely bite your interest, I recommend that you consult my September 19 collection of Linux applications. My recommendations last week were musical, geographic and productive – something for everyone.