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Chatty – Twitch chat client

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Chatty is a Twitch Chat Client for Desktop written in Java featuring many Twitch specific features.

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Tucnak – ham radio VHF/HF contest logbook

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Tucnak is multiplatform VHF/HF contest logbook. It is executable on Linux and other unix-type systems, Windows, Android and MacOS.

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Bobcat – terminal emulator

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Utilities

Bobcat is a modern, feature-rich terminal emulator that works across all major operating systems.

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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2025

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms Blog

I’ve trawled through our statistics and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2025.

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5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Medical Practice Management Software

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Medical Practice Management Software is a type of software that is designed to supervise and support the day-to-day operations of a medical practice.

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Find Duplicates

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: grep

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to grep, a utility that searches for patterns in each file.

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Home Automation

5 Best Free and Open Source X10 Home Automation Software

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, Utilities

X10 is an open standard for controlling home electrical equipment remotely. It works across home power lines and is extremely low-bandwidth.

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nnd – debugger for Linux

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

nnd is a debugger for Linux. It’s distributed as a single 6 MB executable file with no dependencies.

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google-java-format – reformats Java source code

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

google-java-format is a program that reformats Java source code to comply with Google Java Style.

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Network Analyzers

Kyanos – networking analysis tool using eBPF

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Kyanos is an eBPF-based network issue analysis tool that enables you to capture network requests, such as HTTP, Redis, and MySQL requests.

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Selection of utilities

Bongo Cat Wayland Overlay – animated bongo cat reacting to your keyboard input

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI

Bongo Cat Wayland Overlay is a cute Wayland overlay that shows an animated bongo cat reacting to your keyboard input.

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Regal – linter, debugger and language server for Rego

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Regal is a linter, debugger and language server for Rego, making your Rego magnificent, and you the ruler of rules!

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Security

why2 – easy to use encryption system

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Security

why2 is billed as a lightweight, fast, secure, and easy to use encryption system.

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Selection of utilities

ufo – universal file opener

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ufo is a universal file opener, an alternative instrument for opening files from a command line.

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Administrators in action

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sudo

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to sudo, a command which lets you execute a command as another user.

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Data

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Data Mining Software

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Office, Roundup, Scientific

Data mining (also known as knowledge discovery) is the process of gathering large amounts of valid information, analyzing that information and condensing it into meaningful data.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ping

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.

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Compositing Window Managers

fht-compositor – dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

fht-compositor is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that implements a window management model inspired by X11 window managers such as dwm and xmonad.

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System administration

syca – minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

syca is a minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool for Linux with PAM authentication and system-wide secure password caching.

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Point of Sale

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Point-of-Sale Software

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

Linux has a good range of open source Point-of-Sale software which can help retailers make considerable cost savings, not simply due to the lack of licensing and upgrade fees.

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