A soundboard is a useful tool that showcases various sound clips—think effects, jingles, voice snippets, and music—arranged in a grid layout for easy access.
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Linux Candy: tanuki – hourly animal crossing vibes
tanuki is a small GUI program that plays the hourly music from Animal Crossing on your computer.
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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Benchmarks
I run a series of benchmarks on the newly released Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus. It’s a very capable laptop.
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Trix Player – Linux music player built with Rust
Trix Player (or Trix) is a lightweight, high-performance music player written in Rust. Aimed at Linux users who favor the terminal
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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Specifications
This is a new series looking at the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux. I grill the laptop using the inxi tool.
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tmuzika – Terminal music player for Linux
tmuzika aims to offer quick and simple music playback directly in the terminal, with full keyboard control.
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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Hardware Review
The Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus positions itself as a lightweight, mid-range productivity machine that blends premium materials with good performance.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2026 Updates
January 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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pearOS – Arch-based Linux distribution
pearOS is an Arch-based desktop Linux distribution that delivers a macOS-inspired look and feel, built on top of the KDE desktop.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Linux HDR Imaging Software
High dynamic range imaging (HDR) is an important technology for photographers. We pick the best HDR software for Linux.
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outside – multi-purpose weather client
outside is a multi-purpose weather client for your terminal.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Drum Machines
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns. We feature our recommended free and open source drum machines.
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BashCore – Debian-based live Linux distribution
BashCore is a Debian-based live Linux distribution tailored for security professionals, networking enthusiasts, and students.
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7 Hot Free and Open Source Application Servers for Python
An application server is software which provides the business logic for an application program. Here’s our recommended servers for Python.
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iwmenu – launcher-driven Wi-Fi manager for Linux
iwmenu (iNet Wireless Menu) manages Wi-Fi through your launcher of choice.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Incident Response Tools
Incident response tools enable you to respond to critical issues before they impact your business. We recommend open source solutions.
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wlctl – TUI for managing WiFi using NetworkManager
wlctl is a TUI for managing WiFi using NetworkManager. It’s a fork of impala that uses NetworkManager instead of iwd.
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9 Top Free and Open Source F# Web Frameworks
One of the types of software that’s important for a web developer is the web framework. Here’s our recommended F# web frameworks.
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taproom – TUI for Homebrew
taproom is a terminal user interface (TUI) for Homebrew. It provides a way to explore formulae and casks directly in your terminal.
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gotip – select and run Go tests
gotip is a TUI application for interactively selecting and running Go tests.
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rainy – neofetch-like, minimalistic, and customizable weather-fetching tool
rainy is a neofetch-like, minimalistic, and customizable weather-fetching tool.
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Artistic Style – source code indenter, formatter, and beautifier
Artistic Style is a source code indenter, formatter, and beautifier for the C, C++, C++/CLI, Objective‑C, C# and Java programming languages.
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FLOPPINUX – embedded Linux on a single floppy
FLOPPINUX is a complete Linux distribution that fits on a single 1.44MB floppy disk. It supports all 32-bit x86 CPUs since Intel 486DX and requires only 20MB of RAM.
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Audiveris – optical music recognition
Audiveris is an optical music recognition application that’s written in the Java language.
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LogLens – log viewer
LogLens is a powerful log processing engine with an interactive Terminal UI for viewing and analyzing system logs.
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Wavelog – log amateur radio contacts
Wavelog is a self-hosted PHP application to log your amateur radio contacts. All you need is a web browser and active internet connection.
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Froggit – modern, minimalist Git TUI
Froggit is a modern, minimalist Git TUI. Designed for clarity, speed, and smooth integration with your terminal workflow.
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