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cull – reclaim precious disk space

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms Reviews, TUI, Utilities

cull is a program written in Go that helps you clean up your system. It’s a lovely small utility. Give it a whirl!

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NoctaVox – TUI music player for local music

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

NoctaVox recently caught my attention. It’s billed as a lightweight, plug and play TUI music player for local music.

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Framework

3 Useful Free and Open Source Haskell TUI Frameworks

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

The software featured in this roundup helps developers create TUI programs. All the software featured is written in Haskell.

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Coding

3 Useful Free and Open Source YAML Code Formatters

February 8, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

This roundup selects some useful code formatters for YAML developers.

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Linux Candy: sigye – terminal clock

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, TUI

sigye is a terminal clock with ASCII art fonts. The name “sigye” (시계) means “clock” in Korean. It also offers Pomodoro functionality

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Ampere – lightweight music player

February 5, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Ampere is a GUI-based playlist-based audio player written in Python and Qt. It’s free and open source software.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: BIOS

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H.

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YouTube

Pipeline – watch YouTube and PeerTube videos

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Access YouTube content without using a web browser. Pipeline goes one step further by letting you also view PeerTube content.

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Linux software

Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2026 Updates

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Software

January 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Framework

5 Useful Free and Open Source Rust TUI frameworks

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, TUI

The software featured in this roundup helps developers create TUI programs. All the software featured is written in Rust.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: asciify – turn images into attractive ASCII art

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

asciify is a CLI tool that converts images into ASCII art. It’s part of our Linux Candy series.

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Volla Phone Quintus running Volla OS: Introduction to the Series

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Phone, Reviews

This series looks at Volla OS, an Android operating system which has been de-googled. All your data is yours.

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Music

Hummingbird – modern music player

January 28, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Hummingbird is a cross-platform Rust-based music player with basic functionality already implemented. It’s worth checking out!

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: BIOS

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the Minisforum AI X1 Pro.

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Linux software

Site Updates: Our Plans

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Software

I’m delighted to discuss our updated plans with the Linux community!

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Smart Ways to Pass AI Detection When Writing With AI Help

February 12, 2026 Lee Walker Tutorials

Are you trying to write content using AI but also want it to sound natural, like a human wrote it?

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Phpactor – heavy-lifting refactoring and introspection tools

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Phpactor is a PHP completion, refactoring, introspection tool and language server.

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ElecWhat – simple desktop WhatsApp client

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

ElecWhat is a simple desktop WhatsApp client for Linux. It’s Electron based.

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Security

Envy – manage secrets

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security, TUI

Envy is a single binary that gives you both a slick TUI for browsing secrets and a CLI for automation.

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7 Best Free and Open Source Screen-Readers

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

A screen-reader is a computer application designed to provide spoken feedback to a blind or visually impaired person.

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Essora Eos – minimal Devuan based Linux distribution

February 12, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

Essora Eos is a minimalist Linux distribution based on Devuan excalibur, designed to be lightweight, fast, and fully customizable.

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Development Tools

8 Top Free and Open Source Clojure Web Frameworks

February 12, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

We recommend the best free and open source Clojure web frameworks.

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Selection of utilities

Hermes – package manager for Arch Linux

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Hermes is billed as a beautiful TUI package manager for Arch Linux.

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accel-php – PPTP/L2TP/SSTP/PPPoE/IPoE server

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

ACCEL-PPP is a completely new implementation of PPTP/PPPoE/L2TP/SSTP which was written from scratch.

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Security

Chamber – secrets manager

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms Security, TUI

Chamber is a secure, local-first secrets manager, featuring encrypted storage, intuitive terminal UI, and import/export capabilities.

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Alaska

revela – static image gallery generator

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

revela is a static web image gallery generator. It optimizes images for the web and generates HTML files to create a photo/image gallery.

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Static Site Generator

3 Best Free and Open Source Awk Static Site Generators

February 11, 2026 Eilidih Parris Roundup, Web Apps

A static site works very well in certain use cases. For example, it’s great for documentation. And static sites can be just as engaging as dynamic sites.

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S3

STU – S3 terminal user interface

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

STU, S3 Terminal UI, is a interactive terminal-based explorer for Amazon S3 (AWS S3).

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Selection of utilities

Shelly – modern Arch package manager

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Shelly is a modern reimagination of the Arch Linux package manager, designed to be a user-friendly alternative to pacman and octopi.

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Process Automation

6 Best Free and Open Source Robotic Process Automation Tools

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms Office, Productivity, Programming, Roundup

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a business process automation technology that uses attended or unattended software bots.

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rustormy – neofetch-like weather CLI

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

rustormy is a minimal and neofetch-like weather CLI with multiple data providers support, ASCI-icons, ANSI colors, and various output modes.

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Static Site Generator

6 Best Free and Open Source C++ Static Site Generators

February 11, 2026 Eilidih Parris Roundup, Web Apps

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 best C++ static site generators.

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Password manager

Puny Manager – CLI password manager

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Puny Manager is a minimal, local, CLI password manager.

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Front-end Frameworks

7 Best Free and Open Source JavaScript Engines

February 11, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

A JavaScript engine is software that translates source code into machine code. This machine code is executed on a computer’s central processing unit.

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