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Author: Steve Emms

Passive OS Fingerprinting

Fingwit – configure fingerprint authentication

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Fingwit is used to configure fingerprint authentication. Fingwit relies on Fprintd.

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DankMaterialShell – desktop shell

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

DankMaterialShell is a complete desktop shell for niri, Hyprland, MangoWC, Sway, labwc, and other Wayland compositors.

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Selection of utilities

hyprdrover – lightweight session manager for the Hyprland compositor

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

hyprdrover allows users to snapshot their current window layout (workspaces, positions, and sizes) and restore it later.

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ascii-chat – video chat in your terminal

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

ascii-chat is a client-server application that operates over TCP/IP with color and audio and crypto and compression and multiple clients.

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Command Schedulers

Cronboard – terminal-based dashboard for managing cron jobs

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Cronboard is a terminal application that allows you to manage and schedule cronjobs on local and remote servers.

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Selection of utilities

dotbins – manages CLI tool binaries in your dotfiles repository

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dotbins uniquely integrates tool-specific shell configurations (aliases, completions, etc.) directly in your dotfiles workflow.

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Machine Learning in Linux

GPTScript – build AI assistants that interact with your systems

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

GPTScript is a framework that allows Large Language Models (LLMs) to operate and interact with various systems.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Pipelex – declarative language for composable Al workflows

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Pipelex is an open-source language that enables agents to build and run repeatable AI workflows.

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Coding

6 Best Free and Open Source Java Linter Tools

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This article picks some useful tools to help you fix Java code.

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hsh – better shell

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

hsh is a slightly different take on your shell. It’s closer to a user agent than you standard POSIX shell.

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Development Tools

13 Best Free and Open Source Python Web Frameworks

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

A framework “is a code library that makes a developer’s life easier when building reliable, scalable, and maintainable web applications” by providing reusable code or extensions for common operations.

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Log Analyzers

phos – log colorizer

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

phos is a fast, portable log colorizer written in the Rust language.

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Rusticon – favicon editor

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

Rusticon is a mouse driven SVG favicon editor for your terminal.

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System administration

gasroot – run a process as the root user

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI

gasroot is a utility that lets you run a process as the root user. gasroot asks for the user’s password, using a graphical interface.

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Files

mdq – select and render specific elements in a Markdown document

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

mdq aims to do for Markdown what jq does for JSON: provide an easy way to zero in on specific parts of a document.

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Flay – analyzes code for structural similarities

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Flay analyzes code for structural similarities. Differences in literal values, variable, class, method names, whitespace …

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Sports Games

mlbt – TUI for the MLB Statcast API

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms Games, TUI

mlbt is a terminal user interface for the MLB Statcast API, with the intention of providing a light weight way to consume baseball data.

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Security

8 Useful Free and Open Source Linux Forensics Memory Tools

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

This roundup focuses on memory tools that help with forensics. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here.

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Internet

Superseedr – Rust BitTorrent client

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Superseedr is a modern Rust BitTorrent client featuring a high-performance terminal UI, real-time swarm observability

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Text Editor

ad – adaptable text editor

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

ad aims at combining a modal editing interface of likes of vi and kakoune with the approach to extensibility of Plan9’s Acme.

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