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Graphics

Trophy – terminal 3D model viewer

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

Trophy is a terminal 3D model viewer that displays OBJ, GLB, and STL files directly inside a terminal window. It provides interactive controls for rotating, zooming, and inspecting models, with software rendering that doesn’t require a GPU and can work

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PELADN-WO4

PELADN WO4 5600H Mini PC: Power Consumption

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I test the PELADN WO4 5600H Mini PC’s power use tested at idle, under load, and for annual UK electricity costs.

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System Cleaning

CrunchyCleaner – lightweight cache cleanup tool

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

CrunchyCleaner provides a simple TUI for removing temporary files and software caches from common system locations and applications.

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Office

5 Best Free and Open Source Office Suites

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Office, Roundup

An office suite is a collection of productivity software usually containing a word processor, spreadsheet and a presentation program.

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Finance

Cashlytics – self-hosted personal finance and budget planning application

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

Cashlytics is a self-hosted personal finance and budget planning application.

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Composing Music

12 Excellent Free and Open Source Scorewriters – Compose, arrange, print, and publish music

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A scorewriter is software used with a computer for creating, editing and printing sheet music. We recommend free and open source software.

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Office

Collabora Office – desktop office suite

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Office

Collabora Office is a desktop office suite that brings the Collabora Online interface to local editing on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

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Website

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Web Caches

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

Web caches have become a vital mechanism for optimizing the amount of data that is delivered in a given period of time. Good web caches also help to minimise latency, serving pages as quickly as possible.

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Hypervisors

Firecracker – virtualization technology

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, System Software

Firecracker is virtualization designed to create and run lightweight microVMs for secure, multi-tenant container and function workloads.

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Book

5 Best Free and Open Source CardDAV Servers

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

CardDAV (“Card Distributed Authoring and Versioning”) is a standardized address book client/server protocol.

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Personal Finance

Ledge – terminal-based personal finance tracker

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

Ledge is designed for keyboard-driven use, letting you record transactions, monitor budgets, export reports, and review spending insights.

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Finance

Yaffa – self-hosted personal finance web application

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

Yaffa is a self-hosted personal finance web application written in PHP using the Laravel framework.

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Finance

moneyflow – track your money from the terminal

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

Moneyflow is a keyboard-driven terminal application for managing personal finance transactions.

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Manga

ani-l – terminal-based anime library and streamer

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Other, TUI

ani-l lets users browse, search, and stream anime directly from the terminal, with a TUI or command-line options.

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Minisforum M2

MINISFORUM M2 Intel Panther Lake Mini PC Running Linux: BIOS

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

BIOS, or Basic Input/Output System, remains one of the most important pieces of low-level software in any computer. Here’s a look at the M2’s BIOS.

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Finance

Savvy – self-hosted personal finance and expense tracking application

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

Savvy is designed for users who want to keep control of their financial data while managing accounts, transactions, budgets, debts, recurring payments, and reports.

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Security

8 Useful Free and Open Source Security Testing Software

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

Here’s some useful software for performing security testing. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here.

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Web

Souin – HTTP cache system

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Souin is an HTTP cache system for reverse proxies and web services.

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Photo Gallery

19 Best Free and Open Source Web Photo Gallery Solutions

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Web Apps

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 15 of the most useful open source web photo gallery software.

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Microdot – small web framework for Python and MicroPython

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Microdot is a minimalistic web framework for Python and MicroPython inspired by Flask.

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