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Author: Steve Emms

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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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, Web Apps

OHIF Viewer provides browser-based DICOM viewing with DICOMweb, 3D reconstruction, segmentation, measurements and custom imaging workflows.

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Trouble Ticketing

Frappe Helpdesk – customer service and ticket management

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, Web Apps

Frappe Helpdesk manages customer tickets with an agent portal, SLA policies, assignment rules, saved replies and a knowledge base.

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Search

16 Best Free and Open Source Search Engines for Big Data

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup

Big Data is an all-inclusive term that refers to data sets so large and complex that they need to be processed by specially designed hardware and software tools.

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Physics

DualSPHysics – particle-based fluid simulation

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

DualSPHysics models free-surface flows with smoothed particle hydrodynamics for wave interaction, fluid impacts and coastal research.

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Command Schedulers

Ofelia – job scheduler for Docker environments

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

Ofelia schedules Docker and host jobs using crontab expressions, labels or INI configuration, overlap controls, and notification hooks.

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