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Goofys – Amazon S3 backend filey-system interface

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Goofys allows you to mount an S3 bucket as a filey system.

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OCR Tools

8 Best Free and Open Source OCR Systems

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

We pick out useful OCR systems.

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Athas – cross-platform code editor

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Athas is a lightweight, cross-platform code editor, built with Tauri (Rust and React) with Git support, AI agents, vim keybindings.

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Application Launchers

6 Best Free and Open Source AppImage Desktop Integration Tools

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Here’s our survey of tools which help integrate AppImages into your desktop. Only free and open source software is included.

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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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3D Printer

Creality Print – 3D slicer for Creality printers

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Creality Print is forked from Orca Slice. In turn, Orca Slicer is forked from Bambu Studio, a fork of PrusaSlicer, a fork of Slic3r.

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XMPP

6 Best Free and Open Source XMPP Servers

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

XMPP (also known as Jabber) is an open and free alternative to commercial messaging and chat providers. We select the best servers.

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trzsz-ssh – drop-in replacement for openssh

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

trzsz-ssh ( tssh ) is an ssh client designed as a drop-in replacement for the openssh client.

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tcgui – Web-GUI for Linux traffic control

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

tcgui is a lightweight Python-based Web-GUI for Linux traffic control (tc) to set, view and delete traffic shaping rules.

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Surge – terminal-based download manager

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Surge is a terminal (TUI) download manager. Designed for power users who prefer a keyboard-driven workflow.

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Data Science

Flowrs – TUI for Apache Airflow

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

Flowrs is a TUI application for Apache Airflow, an open-source workflow management platform for data engineering pipelines.

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Cloud storage

kubefwd – port forward pods within a Kubernetes namespace

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

kubefwd is a command-line utility that bulk port forwards Kubernetes services to your local workstation.

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Music Trackers

8 Best Free and Open Source Music Trackers

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A music tracker (short version tracker) is a type of music sequencer software for creating music. We recommend the best free and open source trackers.

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Accountancy

rustledger – Rust implementation of Beancount

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Financial

rustledger is a drop in Rust replacement for Beancount.

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Framework

7 Useful Free and Open Source Go TUI frameworks

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, TUI

The software featured in this roundup helps developers create TUI programs. There is a diverse range of programs included.

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Typing

GitType – turn your source code into typing challenges

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Productivity, TUI

GitType turns your own source code into typing challenges.

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Text Editor

Great Open Source Collaborative Editing Tools

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

This article highlights our favourite free and open source tools to collaborate on documents in real time.

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Best Free IRC

senpai – modern terminal IRC client

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

senpai is an IRC client that works best with bouncers.

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SwitchCalc – GTK4 calculator

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

SwitchCalc is a GTK4 calculator application for Linux with Standard, Scientific, Programmer, and Date calculation modes.

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YouTube

GoMusic – download and stream music from YouTube

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

GoMusic is a terminal UI for downloading and streaming music from YouTube with automatic MP3 conversion and metadata tagging.

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