lolcat
Rainbows and unicorns! (by busyloop)
cmatrix
Terminal based "The Matrix" like implementation (by abishekvashok)
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| lolcat | cmatrix | |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | 23 | |
| 5,758 | 3,705 | |
| 0.0% | - | |
| 0.0 | 2.3 | |
| about 2 years ago | 11 days ago | |
| Ruby | C | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
lolcat
Posts with mentions or reviews of lolcat.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.
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Proof of Concept: Local LLM to execute terminal comands (Here GPT-2)
More bonus points if also uses lolcat.
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Capture your users attention with style
This script uses the toilet and lolcat utils to generate messages that will grab your user’s attentionand the who util to find the tty and pts devices of logged-in users so it can send them said messages.
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The amount of times I have accidentally done this...
If you install lolcat first, you can also get some lsd into your terminal with
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how to look like you're hacking when someone walks in
you can also pipe cmatrix to lolcat for rainbowz!!
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nowplaying.sh: a simple script to show what’s playing on Plex on the command line
Ah. Those colors are actually from being piped into “lolcat” https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
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lolcat without snap possible
Straight Python port of the Ruby version at https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat/ but with 100% more fun, because, hey, it’s not Ruby. There are no external dependencies..
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Show me your DockerHub public images in your terminal
lolcat : "Rainbows and unicorns!"
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Some things I don't like about opensuse.
It's called that because it's this version of lolcat (called lolcat in Debuntu repos), which is basically a Ruby Gem, and not this lolcat which is a proper C programme (called lolcat in Fedora's repos).
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Tell me some Linux facts or cool things.
lolcat
cmatrix
Posts with mentions or reviews of cmatrix.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-02.
- ascii-matrix
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how to look like you're hacking when someone walks in
Three terminals side by side each showing "Matrix letters" in different colors and a bit different speed. It is quite obvious if you know what the cmatrix is about.
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$[Need help!] Making a quick "hacking" video
Look into Hollywood and CMatrix, and if you're focused on "hacking" cameras, something like this could be cool too! AsciiCam
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literally a dude looking for matrix on google images
Cmatrix is a thing btw
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Asciiville 1.3.1r2 - ASCII Art, animations, and command line Utilities for Linux
cmatrix, screen from "The Matrix"
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kitty - the fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
I wanted to have a smooth Matrix-like program in the terminal and without GPU acceleration, it usually stutters. https://github.com/abishekvashok/cmatrix
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Tell me some Linux facts or cool things.
Bonus: neofetch & cmatrix
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Got my first ever Macbook Pro.
Those are CLI applications. Top left neofetch, top right is top, which every ? unix machine has access to and bottom left is cmatrix. Instead of top, you also can try vtop or htop.
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[Hacker 2020] Finding bad guys on the other side of the world
2nd one is absolutely cmatrix
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lolcat and cmatrix you can also consider the following projects:
hollywood
spicetify-themes - A community-driven collection of themes for customizing Spotify through Spicetify - https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli
kubecolor - colorizes kubectl output
pycritty - CLI program that allows you to change your Alacritty config with one command without editing the config file.
neofetch - 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+
Awesome-Linux-Software - 🐧 A list of awesome Linux softwares
htop - htop - an interactive process viewer
simple-bar - A yabai status bar widget for Übersicht
unimatrix - Python script to simulate the display from "The Matrix" in terminal. Uses half-width katakana unicode characters by default, but can use custom character sets. Accepts keyboard controls while running. Based on CMatrix.
sl - SL(1): Cure your bad habit of mistyping