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Daphne – audio player and music library manager for Linux

April 1, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Daphne Music Player is a modern Linux music player that gets most of the fundamentals right.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: March 2026 Updates

March 31, 2026 Steve Emms Software

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

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Grocy – ERP beyond your fridge

March 30, 2026 Steve Emms Other, Reviews, Scientific, Web Apps

Grocy is a web-based, self-hosted groceries and household management system.

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fooyin

fooyin’s release 0.10.x adds important improvements

March 28, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, News

Many users consider fooyin to be the best open source music player available for Linux. Its worth checking out the new release!

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Radiotrope – AI agent-enabled internet radio player

March 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Radiotrope is a GUI and TUI internet radio player for Linux. It’s an AI agent-enabled player built with Rust, Slint, and MCP.

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BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC running Linux: BIOS

March 24, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Configuring Ubuntu 25.10

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

In this article in this series I look at configuring one of the most widely used Linux distributions on the Chuwi laptop.

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Foreign Languages

Glate – Google Translator and Text To Speech Service on Linux Desktop

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Glate is a desktop application for Linux that provides text translation and text-to-speech capabilities using Google’s translation services.

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Media Center

Switchfin – third-party native Jellyfin client

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Switchfin is a third-party PC player for Jellyfin that provides a native user interface to browse and play movies and series.

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hyprquickshot – screenshot utility for Hyprland built with Quickshell

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

hyprquickshot is a screenshot utility for Hyprland built with Quickshell. It provides a graphical capture interface with smooth animations.

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wak – compact implementation of the awk programming language

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wak is a compact implementation of the awk programming language designed for both standalone use and integration with Toybox.

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13 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based Bookmark Managers

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

We focus on open source web-based bookmark managers. The featured software lets you effectively manage your bookmarks for websites.

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Typing

Textype – terminal typing tutor

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms Education, TUI

Textype is a terminal typing tutor built for users who want to improve their typing skills from the command line.

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Webcam Tools

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Webcam Tools

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Multimedia, Roundup

Our favorite free Linux tools which enable webcams to capture images and video, and to act as a video surveillance device.

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Photo collection

Rapid Photo Downloader – photo and video downloader

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Efficiently import and organise photos and videos.

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Voice Recognition

17 Best Free Linux Speech Recognition Tools

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

Speech is an increasingly popular method of interacting with electronic devices such as computers, phones, tablets, and televisions.

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Nacos – dynamic service discovery, configuration management, and service governance

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Nacos is designed to support cloud-native and microservices architectures.

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System network administration

eNMS – Enterprise Network Management System

April 2, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

eNMS is a vendor-agnostic network automation platform designed to build and execute workflow-based automation solutions.

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CNC Software

MeerK40t – laser cutting software

April 1, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

MeerK40t is laser control software built for makers who want an open platform for preparing and sending jobs to compatible laser hardware.

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Handy – offline speech-to-text application

April 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Handy is a cross-platform desktop speech-to-text application that lets you dictate directly into any text field using configurable keyboard shortcuts.

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File Managers

PsiTransfer – self-hosted file sharing solution

April 1, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

PsiTransfer is a self-hosted file sharing solution intended as an alternative to services such as Dropbox and WeTransfer.

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Webcam Tools

camera-streamer – low-latency camera streaming project for Raspberry Pi systems

April 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

camera-streamer is a high-performance, low-latency camera streaming project for Raspberry Pi systems and similar single-board computers.

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Linux Distributions

PLD Linux – RPM-based Linux distribution

April 1, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

PLD Linux is a free, RPM-based Linux distribution for advanced users and administrators who value flexibility.

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Voice Recognition

20 Best Free and Open Source Linux Speech Synthesis Tools

April 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

Speech synthesizers are text-to-speech systems used with computers. We feature the finest free and open source speech synthesizers.

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grimblast – helper for screenshots within Hyprland

April 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

grimblast is a command-line screenshot utility for Hyprland. Based on grimshot.

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Voice Recognition

MeloTTS – high-quality multi-lingual text-to-speech library

April 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Web Apps

MeloTTS is a multilingual text-to-speech library written in Python for generating natural-sounding speech locally.

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