Linux offers a huge array of open source music players. And many of them are high quality. Blarock is a new addition.
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Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Sturm Reader
Sturm Reader is an ebook reader for Linux tailored for Ubuntu Touch and portable devices.
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LinuxLinks – The Home of Linux
Our popular series on the best free and open source Linux software, hardware including mini PCs and SBCs, phones, and NAS devices.
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BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux – Introduction to the Series
This is a new series looking at the BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux. It’s a very capable mini PC at a competitive price point.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: stow
Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem.
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Useful Free and Open Source Security Testing Software
Here’s some useful software for performing security testing. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here.
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TUISIC – simple TUI online music streaming software
TUISIC is a simple TUI online music streaming application written in C++ with vim keybindings.
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Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer running Linux: 3 Types of Cores
The 12-core processor has a quad-core Cortex-A720 large core, quad-core Cortex-A720 medium core, and quad-core Cortex-A520 small core.
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ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.2 released: AI grammar and spell check, customizable hotkeys, macro recording, improved PDF redaction and forms
The latest version of ONLYOFFICE Docs is already available, bringing an AI-powered grammar and spelling checker that can be enabled through the built-in AI plugin. However, the 9.2 release also brings more customization (custom keyboard shortcuts), automation (macro recording), improved PDF redaction, and clearer form-building tools, all the small changes that add up to a smoother editing workflow.
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Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: cTDP
Delving into the UM890 Pro’s BIOS reveals an option not available in the other mini PC’s I’ve been writing about. The BIOS setting lets you set the AMD Configurable TDP (cTDP).
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Best Free and Open Source Software: November 2025 Updates
November 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Process Memory Tools
In this roundup we focus on useful tools that help you work out the amount of memory used by programs.
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Benchmarking the Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer
I put the Orange Pi 6 Plus through a series of benchmarks and compare its results to a variety of its competitors.
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Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption
I subject the Minisforum M890 Pro to a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.
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Benchmarking the Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC
The Minisforum UM890 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS processor. I put it through various benchmark tests
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Benchmarking the HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop in Linux
I put a refurbished HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop through a series of benchmarks comparing it to other machines.
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Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux – Introduction to the Series
The Minisforum UM890 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen 9 Pro 8945HS processor with integrated Radeon 780M graphics.
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HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Specifications in detail
Let’s look at the specifications of the laptop in more detail. I’ll use a popular system profiler, inxi, to help delve into the laptop’s specs.
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Orange Pi 6 Plus Running Linux: Introduction to the Series
This is the first article in a new series looking at the latest piece of kit from Orange Pi. It’s the Orange Pi 6 Plus development board.
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HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Introduction to the Series
This is a new series looking at running Linux on a refurbished HP laptop.
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xremap – key remapper
xremap is a key remapper for Linux. Unlike xmodmap, it supports app-specific remapping and Wayland.
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Backmey – desktop backup tool
Backmey lets you backup what matters, restore anywhere. Configs, themes, fonts, browsers, and packages. It’s a cross-distro tool.
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uncover – quickly discover exposed hosts on the internet
uncover is a go wrapper using APIs of well known search engines to quickly discover exposed hosts on the internet.
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hypruler – measure anything on your screen
hypruler is a utility to measure anything on your screen. It’s built for Linux and Hyprland.
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Topiary – uniform formatter for simple languages
Topiary aims to be a uniform formatter for simple languages, as part of the Tree-sitter ecosystem.
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Nicolino – tiny static site generator
Nicolino is billed as a performant, tiny, static site generator. It’s written in the Crystal language.
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Jujutsu – powerful version control system for software projects
Jujutsu is unlike most other systems, because it abstracts the user interface and version control algorithms from the storage systems.
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lumus – read PDF files directly in your terminal
Lumus is a command-line tool written in Go that allows you to read PDF files directly in your terminal.
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Crycco – documentation generator
Crycco is a quick and dirty documentation generator in the mold of and directly inspired by Docco.
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sftpman-iced – GUI tool for sshfs and SFTP filesystems
sftpman-iced is a GUI application for Linux systems that makes it easy to setup and mount sshfs/SFTP filesystems.
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Flyway – database migration tool
Flyway lets you evolve your database schema easily and reliably across all your instances. It’s written in Java.
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TTDL – Terminal ToDo List
TTDL is a CLI tool to manage todo lists in todo.txt format.
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Hourglass – simple time keeping application
Hourglass is a simple time keeping application designed for elementary OS. It also works with other Linux distributions.
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meow – renders text using your existing Neovim configuration
meow is a command line tool that aims to be a replacement for cat/bat with better highlighting. It’s written in Lua.
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numr – text calculator for natural language expressions
numr is a text calculator for natural language expressions with a vim-style TUI.
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Termagotchi – terminal-based Tamagotchi simulation
Termagotchi is a terminal-based Tamagotchi simulation written in Go, featuring a simple and hacky TUI interface.
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Tyr – intelligent file organization powered by machine learning
Tyr is a fast file organizer built in Rust that automatically categorizes and groups your files.
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MDNS Scanner – scan networks
MDNS Scanner scans a network and create a list of IPs and associated hostnames, including mDNS hostnames and other aliases.
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zur – AUR helper
zur is just another AUR helper. The AUR is a community-driven repository for Arch Linux users that contains package build scripts.
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