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Pipeline – watch YouTube and PeerTube videos

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Access YouTube content without using a web browser. Pipeline goes one step further by letting you also view PeerTube content.

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Linux software

Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2026 Updates

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Software

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

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, TUI

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

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

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

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Phone, Reviews

This series looks at Volla OS, an Android operating system which has been de-googled. All your data is yours.

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Music

Hummingbird – modern music player

January 28, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

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

Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: BIOS

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

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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Linux software

Site Updates: Our Plans

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Software

I’m delighted to discuss our updated plans with the Linux community!

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Development Tools

6 Top Free and Open Source Scala Web Frameworks

February 4, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

We highlight the finest Scala web frameworks available for Linux. We only feature free and open source goodness here.

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dcat – terminal-based 3D model viewer

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

dcat is a terminal-based 3D model viewer that’s written in the C++ language

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Git Clients

stax – CLI and TUI for stacked Git branches and PRs

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

Stacked branches let you split work into small, reviewable pieces that build on each other (and visualize it as a tree).

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ziglint – linting suite

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

ziglint searches the current directory for .zig files and lint them against the various tests in the suite.

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tredis – terminal UI for Redis

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

tredis aims to make it easier to navigate, observe, and manage your Redis data in the wild.

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Archive Manager

FAT – modern TUI-based file and archive viewer

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI, Utilities

FAT is designed for developers and power users who want to quickly inspect files and peek inside archives.

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Network

Vortix – terminal UI for WireGuard and OpenVPN

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Vortix is a terminal UI for WireGuard and OpenVPN with real-time telemetry and leak guarding.

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3D Rendering

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Renderers

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

We recommend awesome free and open source software for rendering.

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Plant

HortusFox – self-hosted collaborative plant management system

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

HortusFox is a self-hosted collaborative plant management system which you can use in your own environment to manage all your plants.

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Development Tools

3 Top Free and Open Source Scala Web Micro-Frameworks

February 3, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

Here’s our verdict on the best Scala web micro-frameworks. Only free and open source software is included.

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Interactive Whiteboard

pad.ws – whiteboard as an IDE

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Web Apps

pad.ws is a whiteboard app that acts as a dev environment in your browser. It uses Excalidraw for the whiteboard interface

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Small Image Tools

13 Small Image Tools that Pack a Real Punch

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Linux offers a vast collection of open source small utilities that perform functions ranging from the obvious to the bizarre.

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go-critic – opinionated Go source code linter

February 3, 2026 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

go-critic is a highly extensible Go source code linter providing checks currently missing from other linters.

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Archive Manager

GeeseFS – POSIX-ish S3 file system

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

GeeseFS allows you to mount an S3 bucket as a file system.

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ktea – Kafka terminal client

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

ktea is a tool designed to simplify and accelerate interactions with Kafka clusters.

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gcsfuse – Cloud Storage FUSE

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Cloud Storage FUSE is a FUSE adapter that lets you mount and access Cloud Storage buckets as local file systems.

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ebook reader

Lue – terminal eBook reader with text-to-speech

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Lue is a terminal eBook Reader with audiobook-quality Text-to-Speech.

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Mind Mapping

tmmpr – terminal mind mapper

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

tmmpr is a Linux terminal application that lets you create, organize, and connect notes on an infinite canvas.

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YouTube

Youwee – YouTube video downloader

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Youwee is billed as a modern, beautiful YouTube video downloader built with Tauri and React.

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