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Author: Steve Emms

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Discover – find and install applications, games, and tools

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Discover helps you find and install applications, games, and tools. You can search or browse by category, and look at screenshots.

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tio – serial device I/O tool

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tio is a serial device I/O tool for Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like systems.

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Clipboard

Ringboard – clipboard manager

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Ringboard is a Linux clipboard manager built around a client-server architecture.

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Clipboard

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux CLI Clipboard Managers

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

The applications featured here keep the focus on fast, keyboard-driven clipboard management in the terminal.

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Commy – cross-platform serial monitor

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Commy is a cross-platform serial monitor for communicating with tty, UART, and COM port devices.

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Command Schedulers

14 Best Free and Open Source CLI Command Schedulers

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, Utilities

The software utility cron also known as cron job is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. But there are other high quality CLI command schedulers.

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DNA

ITK-SNAP – multi-platform medical image segmentation application

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

ITK-SNAP is a multi-platform medical image segmentation application for working with 3D and 4D biomedical image data.

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Command Schedulers

Dkron – distributed job scheduling system for cloud native environments

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

Dkron is a distributed job scheduling system for cloud native environments.

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DNA

MITK – Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

MITK is a C++ toolkit and application framework for developing interactive medical image processing software.

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Command Schedulers

Dagu – lightweight workflow orchestration engine

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software, Utilities

Dagu is a lightweight workflow orchestration engine for Linux that lets you define Directed Acyclic Graphs in YAML

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Physics

24 Best Free and Open Source Linux Physics Tools

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

This article focuses on selecting the best open source software for physics and physics education. Hopefully there will be something for interest here for all budding physicists.

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Minisforum M2

MINISFORUM M2 Intel Panther Lake Mini PC Running Linux: Cores

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Benchmarking the Minisforum M2 on Linux, comparing P-cores, E-cores and LP E-cores with Crafty, Coremark and smallpt.

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DNA

Orthanc – lightweight DICOM server

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Orthanc is a lightweight DICOM server designed for healthcare environments and medical research.

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Human Resource Management

9 Best Free and Open Source Human Resource Management Software

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Web Apps

Human resource management is the planned and logical approach to the management of an organization’s most valuable assets – its human capital.

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Command Schedulers

Chadburn – modern job scheduler for Docker environments

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

Chadburn is designed as an alternative to cron and focuses on running scheduled tasks inside containers.

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Human Resource Management

Frappe HR – modern human resource management and payroll application

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Frappe HR is a human resource management and payroll application to help organizations manage core people operations from a web-based system.

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Natural Language Processing

Presidio – data protection and de-identification SDK

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Presidio is a data protection and de-identification SDK that helps developers detect and transform personally identifiable information

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Whatevr – Linux-first native client for WhatsApp

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Whatevr is a Linux-first native client for WhatsApp. It’s built around a background daemon that manages WhatsApp.

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Trouble Ticketing

9 Best Free Linux Customer Service Trouble Ticketing Software

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

A customer service trouble ticketing (or help desk) is an information and assistance resource that helps the resolution of computer related problems. We recommend the finest open source options.

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DNA

OHIF Viewer – browser-based medical imaging viewer

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

OHIF Viewer is a browser-based medical imaging viewer designed for clinical imaging, research, and web deployment.

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