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Author: Steve Emms

Brief – browse command-line cheatsheets

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI

Brief is an app for browsing command-line cheatsheets written in Python, using GTK4 and Libadwaita.

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Find Duplicates

trxsh – trash manager

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trxsh is a simple and efficient command-line trash manager written in Go.

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Selection of utilities

prox – process manager

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

prox is a modern, powerful process manager with a beautiful Terminal User Interface (TUI). Inspired by pm2, built with Go and Bubbletea.

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Linux Candy: ascii_moon – displays the moon phase

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, TUI

ascii_moon is a small TUI program that displays the moon phase in ASCII art. It’s a small single native binary.

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PaaS

10 Best Free and Open Source PaaS Cloud Computing Stacks

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Along with Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), PaaS is a service model of cloud computing.

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Tools that help you

Outfieldr – TLDR client

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Outfieldr is a TLDR client written in Zig. TLDR offers an alternative to man pages.

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PaaS

Kubero – self-hosted PaaS

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Kubero is a self-hosted Platform as a Service that allows a developer to deploy their application on Kubernetes without specialized knowledge.

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Stacking Window Managers

24 Best Free and Open Source Stacking Window Managers

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

Stacking window managers (also known as floating window managers) draw all windows in a specific order, allowing them to overlap.

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nchat – terminal-based chat client

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

nchat is a terminal-based chat client for Linux and macOS with support for Telegram and WhatsApp.

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Not1MM – ham radio contest logger

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Not1MM is an amateur radio contest logger for Linux.

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Musical instruments

idntag – identify and tag audio files

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Idntag is a command-line tool that identifies artist and title of specified audio files and updates their ID3-tag meta-data

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Linux

Packet – terminal multiplexer and broadcast system

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Packet is a professional terminal multiplexer and broadcast system designed specifically for network engineers and system administrators.

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DNA

PLINK – whole genome association analysis toolset

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

PLINK is a whole genome association analysis toolset. Perform a range of basic, large-scale analyses in a computationally efficient manner.

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eilmeldung – TUI RSS reader

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

eilmeldung is a TUI RSS reader based on the awesome news-flash library. eilmeldung is German for breaking news.

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Video-Emulators

Amiberry – optimized Amiga emulator

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms Emulators

Amiberry is an optimized Amiga emulator for Intel/AMD, ARM (32bit and 64bit) and RISC-V platforms.

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Task Manager

RazTodo – CLI task manager

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

RazTodo is a lightweight, cross-platform CLI task manager powered by SQLite, offering fast, privacy-first todo management.

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ebook reader

4 Best Free and Open Source eBook Web Apps

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Web Apps

This article selects our pick of the available eBook web apps. We only explore free and open source software here.

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Diff Tools

oyo – step-through diff viewer

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

oyo extends traditional diffs with an optional step-through mode.

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InfoDash – displays RSS feeds, weather and stock information

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, GUI, Internet, Scientific

InfoDash is a modern GTK4 dashboard application for Linux that displays RSS feeds, weather, and stock data.

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Desktop

Wardrobe – prettify your desktop

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Wardrobe is a utility for installing community-made Gnome Shell, GTK3/4, icon, and cursor themes as well as wallpapers.

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