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December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Software

Our popular series on the best free and open source Linux software, hardware including mini PCs and SBCs, phones, and NAS devices.

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Mint – programming language for the front-end web

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Mint is a programming language to write single page applications with tools to write error free, easily readable and maintainable applications.

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kcaldav – simple, safe, and minimal CalDAV server

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

kcaldav is a simple, safe, and minimal CalDAV server depending only on kcgi, sqlite3, and expat.

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Fortress – file explorer with git niceties

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, TUI, Utilities

Fortress is a command-line file explorer written in modern Fortran with fzf integration and git binds for fast staging and committing.

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Compositing Window Managers

MangoWC – Wayland compositor

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

MangoWC is as lightweight as dwl, and can be built completely within a few seconds. Despite this, Mango does not compromise on functionality.

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prmt – ultra-fast, customizable shell prompt generator

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

prmt is billed as an ultra-fast, customizable shell prompt that won’t slow you down.

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CSSOM – CSS parser

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

CSSOM.js is a CSS parser written in pure JavaScript. It is also a partial implementation of CSS Object Model.

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carl – calendar for the command-line

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

carl tries to mimic the various cal implementations out there, but also adds enhanced features like colors and ical support.

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Security

Volshell – CLI tool for working with memory

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Volshell is a utility to access the volatility framework interactively with a specific memory image.

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Security

fnox – encrypted/remote secret manager

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms Security

fnox lets you manage secrets with encryption or cloud providers—or both.

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Subtitles

AutoSubSync – automatic subtitle synchronization tool

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

AutoSubSync is a user-friendly tool that automatically synchronizes your subtitles with your videos

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BOSGAME M6

BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux – Introduction to the Series

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux. It’s a very capable mini PC at a competitive price point.

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Shooter Games

Recoil – real time strategy game engine

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Recoil is a battle tested open-source RTS engine that, allied with a flexible Lua API, allows you to implement the perfect UI and mechanics.

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Selection of utilities

HeadsetStatus – lightweight headset battery monitor for Linux

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

HeadsetStatus is a fast, minimal system tray app that shows battery and connection status for wireless/USB headsets.

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Network

FlareSolverr – proxy server to bypass Cloudflare and DDoS-GUARD protection

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

FlareSolverr is a proxy server to bypass Cloudflare and DDoS-GUARD protection.

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Jarl – fast linter for R

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Jarl is a fast linter for R: it does static code analysis to search for programming errors, bugs, and suspicious patterns of code.

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Coding

Spotless – keep your code spotless

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Spotless is a code formatter that supports lots of languages.

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YouTube

m2m – convert YouTube video files to other formats

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

m2m is a minimal bash tool to convert YouTube video files to any other supported media files.

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stylis – lightweight CSS preprocessor

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

stylis is a lightweight CSS preprocessor that’s written in JavaScript.

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Security

pypykatz – Python implementation of Mimikatz

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

pypykatz is a cross-platform implementation of Mimikatz written in Python.

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