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Demucs is billed as “a state-of-the-art music source separation model, currently capable of separating drums, bass, and vocals from the rest of the accompaniment”.

One of the venerable programs that has stuck in our memory for such a long time is xclock, an open source analog / digital clock for X. One of the many virtues of open source software is that other developers fork the project and ‘invent’ something new.

This new series looks at highly promising machine learning and deep learning software for Linux. We'll cover a wide range of applications of this technology. We begin the series with GFPGAN, deep learning software for real-world face restoration. This software can radically improve the quality of images.

Apple Contacts is a computerized address book included with the Apple operating systems iOS, iPadOS and macOS. It includes cloud synchronization capabilities.

Gaia Sky is a cross-platform real-time 3D universe program. It's developed within the framework of the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Gaia mission to chart more than 1 billion stars.

cTune is an ncurses based internet radio player written in C. This is free and open source software.

PyRadio is a cross-platform curses based internet radio player. We tested the latest version of PyRadio using the package available from the Arch User Repository (AUR). This repository is for Arch and Arch-based distros.

Corel Pinnacle Studio is a full-featured, near-pro-level video editing application without a steep learning curve.

When we reviewed termusic back in April 2022 we lamented that this music player was a strong candidate for someone looking for a terminal-based music player with one exception. The software lacked gapless playback.

Aqualung is mature software. It’s billed as an advanced music player that plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks.

pyjokes is a terminal based program that tells one line jokes for programmers. On each evocation of the program, you receive a corny joke pulled randomly from the software’s joke file. Nothing more, nothing less.

Apple Console is a system utility which collects log messages that are generated from your computer and connected devices. The output lets users check performance issues and resolve problems.

WTF (also known as ‘wtfutil’) is billed as “the personal information dashboard for your terminal”. The idea is that you’ve got easy access to important but infrequently-needed stats and data. WTF is published under an open source license. This tool is written in Go.

Relaxator is a small utility that’s designed to do one thing — listen to soothing sounds. This free and open source utility is written in Vala.

PQMusic is billed as a minimalistic and easy to use audio player. The software is written in the Python programming language. This is free and open source software.

MotionBuilder is 3D character animation software. The software is designed for virtual cinematography, motion capture, and traditional keyframe animation. Capture, edit, and play back complex animations.

Apple TextEdit is a basic word processor and text editor. It can open documents created in other word processing apps and can create HTML documents.

This review looks at the BrosTrend AC650 AC5L Linux WiFi Adapter. Unlike most Wi-Fi sellers, BrosTrend provide Linux support for Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distros. Their Wi-Fi adapter chipsets and drivers are developed by Realtek.

Nushell is billed as a new type of shell. The aim of the project is to adopt the Unix philosophy of shells where pipes connect commands together. It’s written in the Rust programming language and published under the MIT license.

KOReader is a document viewer for a wide variety of file formats. It’s available for Linux, Android, and E Ink devices.