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10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Web Caches

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

Web caches have become a vital mechanism for optimizing the amount of data that is delivered in a given period of time. Good web caches also help to minimise latency, serving pages as quickly as possible.

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Hypervisors

Firecracker – lightweight virtualization technology

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, System Software

Firecracker runs lightweight KVM-based microVMs with REST API controls, network and storage isolation, snapshots and security hardening.

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Personal Finance

Ledge – terminal-based personal finance tracker

June 4, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

Ledge is a keyboard-driven personal finance tracker with monthly budgets, transaction filters, spending summaries and CSV data exchange.

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Finance

Yaffa – self-hosted personal finance web application

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

Yaffa is a self-hosted personal finance web application written in PHP using the Laravel framework.

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Finance

moneyflow – personal finance transaction manager

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

moneyflow manages personal finance transactions across Monarch Money, YNAB and imported statements with terminal and browser interfaces.

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Manga

ani-l – terminal-based anime library and streamer

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Other, TUI

ani-l lets users browse, search, and stream anime directly from the terminal, with a TUI or command-line options.

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Minisforum M2

MINISFORUM M2 Intel Panther Lake Mini PC Running Linux: BIOS

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

BIOS, or Basic Input/Output System, remains one of the most important pieces of low-level software in any computer. Here’s a look at the M2’s BIOS.

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Finance

Savvy – self-hosted personal finance and expense tracking application

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

Savvy is designed for users who want to keep control of their financial data while managing accounts, transactions, budgets, debts, recurring payments, and reports.

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Web

Souin – configurable HTTP caching system

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Souin provides standards-aware HTTP response caching, configurable storage, invalidation, monitoring and reverse proxy integration.

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Photo Gallery

19 Best Free and Open Source Web Photo Gallery Solutions

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Web Apps

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 15 of the most useful open source web photo gallery software.

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Microdot – small web framework for Python and MicroPython

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Microdot is a minimalistic web framework for Python and MicroPython inspired by Flask.

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Accountancy

WYGIWYH – self-hosted personal finance tracker

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

WYGIWYH (What You Get Is What You Have) is a self-hosted personal finance tracker built around a simple cash-flow philosophy

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Finance

SmartWallet – terminal-based personal finance manager

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

SmartWallet is an offline terminal finance manager with nested budget categories, signed transactions and recursive balance calculations.

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Personal Finance

OpenBudgeteer – self-hosted budgeting application

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

OpenBudgeteer is a self-hosted budgeting application based on the bucket budgeting principle.

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Finance

Rex – terminal application for tracking income and expenses

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

Rex tracks income, expenses and recurring transactions in a keyboard-driven terminal interface with balance charts and local storage.

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YouTube

GopherTube – terminal YouTube browser and downloader

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

GopherTube searches YouTube from the terminal, with mpv playback, video downloads, quality selection, and a local downloads browser.

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Finance

Ocular – self-hosted budgeting application

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

Ocular is a self-hosted budgeting application designed to help users track budgets, expenses, and financial activity across multiple years.

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Bosgame M7 Mini PC

Bosgame M7 Core Ultra 9 285H running Linux – Cores

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Benchmarking the Bosgame M7’s Core Ultra 9 285H on Linux, comparing P-cores, E-cores and LP E-cores with Crafty, Coremark and smallpt.

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Envoy – cloud-native edge and service proxy

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Envoy is a cloud-native network proxy with dynamic routing, service discovery, traffic management, tracing and HTTP response caching.

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Git Clients

25 Useful Free and Open Source Git Storage and Security Tools

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

These tools extend Git well beyond basic version control, covering large file handling, repository repair, encryption, secret protection

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