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
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 Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: BIOS
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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Pipeline – watch YouTube and PeerTube videos
Access YouTube content without using a web browser. Pipeline goes one step further by letting you also view PeerTube content.
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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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5 Useful Free and Open Source Rust TUI frameworks
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: asciify – turn images into attractive ASCII art
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
This series looks at Volla OS, an Android operating system which has been de-googled. All your data is yours.
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Hummingbird – modern music player
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 running Linux: BIOS
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
I’m delighted to discuss our updated plans with the Linux community!
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Celerator – TUI to debug and monitor Celery tasks
Celerator is a TUI (Text User Interface) application for debugging and monitoring Celery tasks in real time. It connects to your Celery broker (Redis, RabbitMQ, etc.), listens to task lifecycle events, and presents them in an interactive terminal interface —
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FuzPad – minimalistic note management solution
FuzPad is a minimalistic note management solution. It’s powered by fzf.
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goxe – log reduction tool
goxe is a high-performance log reduction tool. It ingests logs (currently via syslog/udp), normalizes and filters them
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4 Best Free and Open Source Elm Static Site Generators
Here’s our recommended Elm static site generators. All of these tools are released under a freely distributable license.
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Formbricks – open source Qualtrics alternative
Formbricks provides a surveying platform. Gather feedback at every point in the user journey with beautiful in-app, website, link and email surveys.
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7 Best Free and Open Source UPnP Media Servers
A music streamer lets you share your music, photos and videos with your network. Here’s the best free and open source music streamers.
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Beserk Arch – bleeding-edge, security-centric Arch-based Linux distribution
Designed primarily for power users, security researchers and developers.
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5 Hot Free and Open Source Ruby Application Servers
We recommend the best Application Servers for Ruby. All the software featured is free and open source goodness.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat
cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Gemini Clients
Gemini is a group of technologies similar to the ones that lie behind your familiar web browser. We recommend the best graphical Gemini clients.
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xytz – TUI frontend for yt-dlp
xytz is a TUI app for searching and downloading YouTube videos, built with Go and Bubble Tea. It uses yt-dlp.
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6 Best Free and Open Source OCR Screen Capture Tools
This article highlights OCR powered screen-capture tools to capture information instead of images.
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dekl – declarative package and dotfile management for Arch Linux
dekl allows you to define your system’s packages and configuration in YAML files, making your setup reproducible and version-controllable.
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5 Best Free and Open Source Encrypted FUSE-Based File Systems
Here’s our verdict on the popular encrypted FUSE-based file systems.
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DailyDash – head-up display for developers
DailyDash is a terminal-based “Head-Up Display” (HUD) designed for focus-driven developers.
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Hot Free and Open Source Application Servers for Lua
An application server is computer software which provides the business logic for an application program. Here’s our recommended servers for Lua.
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Libro – terminal based book tracking tool
Libro is a terminal-based tool to track your reading history, with your data stored locally in a SQLite database.
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marchat – terminal chat
marchat is a lightweight terminal chat with real-time messaging over WebSockets, optional E2E encryption, and a flexible plugin ecosystem.
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Fastchess – manage chess games with engines
Fastchess is a command-line tool designed to manage and orchestrate chess games between engines.
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Basalt – TUI program to manage Obsidian notes
Basalt is a TUI application to manage Obsidian vaults and notes directly from the terminal.
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