15 Greatest Open Source Terminal Applications Of 2012 | Linux Today

15 Greatest Open Source Terminal Applications Of 2012

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Dec 12, 2012

Linux on the desktop is making great progress. However, the real beauty of Linux and Unix like operating system lies beneath the surface at the command prompt. nixCraft picks his best open source terminal applications of 2012. Most of the following tools are packaged by all major Linux distributions and can be installed on *BSD or Apple OS X.

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