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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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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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Mastodon

7 Best Free and Open Source Text-Based Mastodon Clients

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, TUI

Mastodon is a free and open source microblogging platform similar to X, but with user privacy and decentralization in mind.

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Database

Goose – database migration tool

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

Goose is a database migration tool. Both a CLI and a library. Manage your database schema by creating incremental SQL changes or Go functions.

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Intrusion Detection

9 Best Free and Open Source Host-Based Intrusion Detection Systems

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

An intrusion detection system is a device or software application that monitors a network or systems for malicious activity or policy violations.

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Mastodon

Mastui – Mastodon client for the terminal

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Mastui is a modern Mastodon client. Built with Python and the powerful Textual framework, it provides a highly efficient, multi-column layout.

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Development Tools

6 Top Free and Open Source Erlang Web Frameworks

February 6, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

One of the types of software that’s important for a web developer is the web framework. We explore Erlang web frameworks.

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Screen Capture

grabIT – screenshot and screen recorder script

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

grabIT is billed as a versatile screenshot, screen recording, and file uploader with OCR support for multiple services.

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Mastodon

5 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based Mastodon Clients

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

Here’s our verdict on the finest web-based Mastodon clients captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-ratings chart.

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WebRTC

PairUX – collaborative screen sharing

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

PairUX is a collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control. It’s like Screenhero, but open source.

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Notes

mnemo – note-taking app

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

mnemo is a local-first, cross-platform note-taking app leveraging the Typst ecosystem. It’s designed to minimize distractions

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T – text processing language and utility

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

t is a concise language for manipulating text, replacing common usage patterns of Unix utilities like grep, sed, cut, awk, sort, and uniq.

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farmOS – farm planning and record keeping system

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

farmOS is a web-based application for farm management, planning, and record keeping.

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Linux

Termix – web-based server management platform

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Termix is a self-hosted all-in-one server management platform. It provides a multi-platform solution for managing your servers

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Video Conversion

ffdash – VP9 video encoder

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

ffdash is a terminal UI for batch VP9/AV1 video encoding with hardware acceleration, real-time progress monitoring.

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Stock Market Investment Tools

7 Best Free and Open Source Stock Market Investment Tools

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Roundup

We focus on the best free and open source software that help you make better stock market investment decisions.

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Coding

Phorge – powerful developer toolkit

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Web Apps

Phorge is an opinionated, community-driven platform for collaborating, managing, organizing and reviewing software development projects.

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Application Servers

4 Hot Free and Open Source PHP Application Servers

February 5, 2026 Eilidih Parris Roundup, Web Apps

An application server is computer software which provides the business logic for an application program.

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Whosthere – Local Area Network discovery tool

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Whosthere is a Local Area Network discovery tool with a modern Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go.

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qui – qBittorrent web UI

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

qui is a fast, modern web interface for qBittorrent. It manages multiple qBittorrent instances from a single, lightweight application.

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pproftui – terminal-based diagnostic tool

February 5, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

pproftui is a terminal-based UI for Go’s pprof that makes profiling interactive, intuitive, and fast.

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