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Author: Steve Emms

File Managers

Fint – keyboard-driven GUI file manager

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Web Apps

Fint is billed as a high-performance, keyboard-driven GUI file manager for Linux, combining TUI efficiency with GUI media capabilities.

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Fonts

0xProto – programming font focused on source code legibility

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

0xProto is a programming font focused on source code legibility. 0xProto is free and open source.

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csscss – CSS redundancy analyzer

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

csscss will parse any CSS files you give it and let you know which rulesets have duplicated declarations.

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Music

mopidy – extensible music server

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

Mopidy is an extensible music server written in Python with extension support.

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Framework

Crossterm – terminal manipulation library

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Crossterm is a pure-rust, terminal manipulation library that makes it possible to write cross-platform text-based interfaces.

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Graphics

todds – CPU-based DDS texture encoder

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

todds is a CPU-based DDS texture encoder optimized for fast batch conversions with high encoding quality.

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Framework

Zaz – terminal manipulation library

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Zaz is a terminal manipulation library for Rust and C/FFI bindings for other languages.

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Circuit board

dmitui – TUI version of dmidecode

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

dmitui is a TUI (Text User Interface) version that allows for easy navigation between sections, unlike dmidecode.

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Monitor System

Xtop – TUI system monitor

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms TUI

Xtop is a modern, cross-platform TUI system monitor crafted in Rust. Heavily inspired by btop, it leverages Rust’s safety and performance

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Internet Radio

3 Best Free and Open Source Pandora Radio Clients

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup

Pandora Internet Radio is a music streaming automated music recommendation service. We pick our favourite clients.

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Music Streaming

Kino – media browser for Plex and Jellyfin servers

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Kino is a fast terminal client for browsing and playing media from Plex and Jellyfin servers.

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IDE

32 Best Free and Open Source Linux Integrated Development Environments

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to programmers for software development.

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Media Center

jfsh – terminal-based client for Jellyfin

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

jfsh is a terminal-based client for Jellyfin that lets you browse your media library and play videos via mpv. It’s inspired by jftui.

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DevOps

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Compilers

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

Linux has a diverse range of other compilers available, many of which are released under freely distributable licenses. Here are the finest.

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Video Conversion

video-compare – split-screen video comparison tool

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

video-compare is a split-screen video comparison tool, utilizing FFmpeg libraries and SDL2.

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Circuit board

Xfetch – system information tool

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Xfetch is a cross-platform system information fetching tool inspired by fastfetch and neofetch, written in Rust.

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Passive OS Fingerprinting

5 Best Free and Open Source Passive OS Fingerprinting Tools

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

Passive OS Fingerprinting Tools rely on sniffing techniques to analyze the information sent in normal network traffic.

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Selection of utilities

LiDM – light login manager

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

LiDM is a really light unix login manager made in C which aims to be highly customizable

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Image of Files

sdn – simple directory navigator

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

sdn is a simple directory navigator that you can invoke while editing shell commands.

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YouTube

Rataplay – TUI to search, play and download videos

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Rataplay is a Terminal User Interface (TUI) for searching, playing, and downloading videos. Built with Rust and inspired by GopherTube.

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