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Framework

gotui – modern Terminal User Interface (TUI) library

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

gotui is a modern Terminal User Interface (TUI) library for Go. It’s a modernized and enhanced fork of termui built on top of tcell.

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Load Balancing

LoxiLB – cloud-native load balancer built around Go and eBPF

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

LoxiLB is designed for Kubernetes, edge, telco, IoT, and hybrid-cloud deployments, offering high-performance Layer 4 load balancing.

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Data Tools

18 Best Free and Open Source Linux Data Recovery Tools

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

The software featured in this article are high quality standalone Linux tools which help you to recover data in a range of circumstances.

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Compositing Window Managers

Pinnacle – Wayland compositor built using Smithay

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built using Smithay which seeks inspiration from AwesomeWM.

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Audio

Just a Sample – modern audio sampler plugin

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Just a Sample is a modern audio sampler plugin with a focus on simplicity, flexible playback, and an uncluttered user experience.

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Database

Apache HugeGraph – highly scalable graph database

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Database, Documents

Apache HugeGraph is a fast, highly scalable graph database designed for storing and querying billions of vertices and edges.

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Compositing Window Managers

miracle-wm – hackable Wayland compositor

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

miracle-wm is a hackable Wayland compositor built on Mir. It brings keyboard-driven tiling window management to Wayland.

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Selection of utilities

dusk – dynamic window manager for X

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

dusk is a dynamic window manager for X that has its roots in dwm. It uses workspaces instead of tags.

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XMPP

7 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based XMPP Clients

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

XMPP (also known as Jabber) is an open and free alternative to commercial messaging and chat providers. Web-based clients are featured.

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Comic Books

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Comic Book Viewers

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Other, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 17 proficient dedicated comic book viewers.

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XMPP

XOWS – JavaScript/HTML based XMPP web client

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

XOWS is designed for self-hosting, providing a lightweight web chat client that can be served as ordinary web content

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Intrusion Prevention - SSH

8 Best Free and Open Source Tools for SSH Intrusion Prevention

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

This article recommends open source software that employ different techniques to make it harder for a server running SSH to be compromised.

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Load Balancing

kube-vip – Kubernetes clusters with a virtual IP and load balancer

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

kube-vip provides Kubernetes clusters with a virtual IP and load balancer

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OCR Tools

12 Best Free and Open Source OCR Systems

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

We pick out useful OCR systems.

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Chat

Solanum – IRC daemon for unified networks

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Solanum is an IRCv3 server designed to be highly scalable, implementing IRCv3.1 and parts of IRCv3.2.

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ERP

Hubleto ERP – PHP-based business application

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Hubleto ERP is a PHP-based business application hub for building and running CRM and ERP systems.

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Static Site Generator

Kiln – documentation-site generator

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Kiln is a documentation-site generator written in Swift.

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Font Tools

SheenBidi – implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

SheenBidi is a lightweight, fast, and stable implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA).

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CRM

Corteza – low-code platform that lets you build CRM

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Corteza is a low-code platform that lets you build CRM, business process, and other structured data applications.

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Files

OpenOCR – toolkit for general OCR research and applications

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

OpenOCR focuses on text detection and recognition, formula and table recognition, and document parsing and understanding.

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