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Author: Steve Emms

Herdr – terminal-based agent multiplexer

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Herdr is a terminal-based agent multiplexer designed for managing coding agents and terminal processes in one persistent workspace.

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Writing Tools

31 Best Free and Open Source Linux General Purpose GUI Note Apps

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Roundup

General-purpose note-taking applications are the digital equivalent of notebooks, but with far greater flexibility.

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Monitor System

reqlog – search, track and stream logs

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

reqlog is a CLI tool for searching, tracing, and streaming logs across local files, Docker containers, and remote Linux hosts over SSH.

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Selection of utilities

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 – efficient Linux clipboard history manager

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, TUI, Utilities

Ringboard provides persistent Linux clipboard history for text, images and binary data, with CLI, TUI and GUI clients and fast searching.

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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 – medical image segmentation application

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

ITK-SNAP provides medical image segmentation with manual and semi-automatic tools, 3D navigation, image registration and linked viewing.

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Command Schedulers

Dkron – distributed job scheduling system

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

Dkron coordinates scheduled jobs across Linux clusters using leader failover, node targeting, retries, execution history, and an HTTP API.

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DNA

MITK – Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

MITK offers medical image visualisation, segmentation and registration in an extensible workbench and reusable imaging toolkit.

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Command Schedulers

Dagu – lightweight workflow orchestration engine

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

Dagu orchestrates scheduled workflows with YAML definitions, retries, workers, a web interface, and file-backed execution history.

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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 archive with web administration, REST API, PACS networking and extensible image storage workflows.

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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 – human resource management and payroll application

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Frappe HR manages employee records, recruitment, attendance, leave, expenses, performance reviews, payroll and staff self-service.

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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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