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amdtop – TUI system monitor designed for AMD GPUs and XDNA NPU

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software, TUI

amdtop is a terminal-based system monitor for computers powered by AMD hardware.

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Netgear Orbi

NETGEAR Orbi 770: Are the Guest and IoT Networks Really Isolated?

August 22, 2026 Steve Emms Accessories, Hardware, Reviews

Testing the NETGEAR Orbi 770 shows Guest Wi-Fi isolates LAN devices, while the IoT SSID does not.

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Why Linux Projects Need Dedicated Servers

August 22, 2026 John O'Donnell Blog

Slow builds and shared hosting are costing Linux projects contributors. Here’s why dedicated servers are a must-have.

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S3 Tools

8 Useful Free and Open Source S3 GUI Tools

August 21, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Roundup

Explore the best S3 desktop clients for Linux to browse buckets, manage files, transfer data, and access compatible object storage.

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TEAMGROUP T-Force G70 PRO 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVMe Review

August 20, 2026 Steve Emms Accessories, Hardware, Reviews

TEAMGROUP T-FORCE G70 PRO 2TB SSD review under Linux, testing PCIe 4.0 performance, sustained writes, random access, temperatures and endurance.

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Minisforum N5 Pro

Minisforum N5 Pro NAS – NPU with FastFlowLM

August 19, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews, Scientific

FastFlowLM puts the Minisforum N5 Pro’s 50 TOPS AMD XDNA 2 NPU to work under Linux for local LLMs and private AI server workloads.

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File Managers

Flux – multi-threaded Linux file manager

August 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Reviews

Flux is a fast, minimalist GTK4 file manager for Linux with archive browsing, network access, content search and extensive keyboard control.

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izrss – terminal-based RSS feed reader

August 17, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, TUI

izrss is a terminal-based RSS feed reader written in Go.

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Why AI-Heavy Projects Rarely Feature on LinuxLinks

August 15, 2026 Steve Emms Blog

I explain why AI-heavy open source projects rarely feature on LinuxLinks and the standards software must meet before I recommend it.

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Minisforum N5 Pro

Minisforum N5 Pro Review – Five-Bay NAS with Ryzen AI 9 Power

August 13, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews

Minisforum N5 Pro review with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370, NVMe storage and 10GbE networking.

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Linux

Termora – Terminal Emulator and SSH Client

August 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Productivity, Reviews

Termora is an open source terminal emulator and SSH client with host management, SFTP transfers, remote editing, plugins and more.

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Linux Distributions

MinisCloud OS Review – customised Linux NAS operating system

August 3, 2026 Steve Emms Distro, Hardware, NAS, Reviews

MinisCloud OS is a customised Linux NAS operating system developed for Minisforum. I take a detailed look at the OS.

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Linux software

Best Free and Open Source Software: July 2026 Updates

July 31, 2026 Steve Emms Software

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

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Email

12 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Email Clients

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

We feature our recommended graphical email clients. They are all free and open source goodness.

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hyprmag – screen magnifier

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

hyprmag is a screen magnifier for wlroots-compatible Wayland compositors. It displays a magnifying lens that follows the mouse pointer.

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Linux

49 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal Emulators

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

A terminal emulator is computer software which emulates a dumb video terminal. We make our recommendations.

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Data Science

Livebook – create interactive and collaborative code notebooks

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

Livebook is a web application for creating interactive and collaborative code notebooks.

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Linux Distributions

BlossomOS – immutable Linux distribution with KDE Plasma

August 24, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

BlossomOS is an immutable open source Linux distribution with KDE Plasma, image-based updates, broad software support and a focus on privacy.

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shmooz – Wayland presentation and screenshot tool

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

shmooz is a Wayland presentation and screenshot tool. It lets you magnify and pan the current output, add annotations

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VoIP

tgt – terminal user interface for Telegram

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

tgt is a Rust terminal user interface for Telegram with messaging, media, search, themes, file handling, voice playback and proxy support.

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Linux Distributions

Spaced Linux – desktop Linux distribution built on Devuan

August 24, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

Spaced Linux is a desktop Linux distribution built on Devuan. It combines the traditional MATE desktop with Compiz

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Analytics Software

Swetrix – privacy-first, cookieless web analytics platform

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Swetrix is a privacy-first, cookieless web analytics platform. It combines real-time traffic statistics with custom events, user flows…

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Linux Distributions

LajtLinux – lightweight Debian distro focused on Wayland

August 24, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

LajtLinux provides lightweight Debian images with minimal Wayland desktops, multiple window managers and a custom open source installer.

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File Managers

NWM – tiling window manager

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

NWM combines traditional master-stack tiling with a horizontal scrolling layout and is configured by editing and recompiling its source.

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Coding

9 Best Free and Open Source PHP Microframeworks

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This article examines the best PHP microframeworks. Micro means the framework is small, with little or no tools and libraries.

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Planet Earth

Oceananigans – ocean fluid dynamics simulations on CPUs and GPUs

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Oceananigans.jl is a Julia package for simulating incompressible geophysical fluid dynamics on CPUs and GPUs.

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Statistics

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Statistical Analysis Tools

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

We recommend the finest software for performing statistical analysis. Open source goodness at its best.

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Bioinformatics

Foldseek – compare large protein structure datasets

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Foldseek is a fast and sensitive command-line tool for comparing large protein structure datasets.

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GPS

SeaDAS Toolbox – NASA ocean colour data processing tools

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

SeaDAS Toolbox contains the core NASA SeaDAS science-processing integration and tools used with the Sea, Earth and Atmosphere Data Analysis System.

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Subtitles

Sub Editor – visual subtitle editor

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Sub Editor is a visual subtitle editor designed for accurate timing and keyboard-driven operation.

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Bioinformatics

Scanpy – scalable toolkit for analysing single-cell gene expression data

August 23, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Scanpy is a scalable toolkit for analysing single-cell gene expression data. It can handle datasets containing more than one million cells.

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Linux Distributions

VasakOS – Arch Linux-based distribution

August 23, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

VasakOS is an Arch Linux-based rolling release with its own Wayland desktop and core apps built with Rust, Tauri and Vue

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