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Author: Steve Emms

Digital Asset Management

5 Best Free and Open Source Digital Asset Management Software

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

Digital asset management (DAM) allows organization to obtain greater value from creative digital assets like images and videos by making them easy to organize, access, catalogue, find, retrieve and distribute.

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lule – ANSI color generator

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lule is a command line tool to set 255 colors on tty’s and other places that use ANSI colors.

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Audio

10 Best Free and Open Source Audio Converters

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 10 high quality free and open source Linux audio converters.

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Amplitude Soundboard – cross-platform soundboard

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Amplitude Soundboard is a feature-rich soundboard in active development.

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Screen Capture

QuickSnip – OCR and Google Lens search

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms Software

QuickSnip is a Wayland utility for OCR and Google Lens search, built using Quickshell.

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Monitoring

crabdrop – file manager for S3-compatible storage

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

crabdrop works with AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, MinIO, and any S3-compatible service.

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Screen Capture

HyprQuickFrame – screenshot utility for Hyprland

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

HyprQuickFrame is a native screenshot utility for Hyprland built with Quickshell.

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Network

xfr – modern iperf3 alternative

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

xfr is a modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, and QUIC support.

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3D Printer

ElegooSlicer – slicer for FDM printers

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

ElegooSlicer is a slicer compatible with most Fused Deposition Modeling printers that runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Image Viewers

Lightning Image Viewer – fast and lightweight desktop image viewer

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Reviews

Lightning Image Viewer (LIV) is billed as a desktop image (previewer) with some notable UX features.

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Network

zrok – secure internet sharing platform

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

zrok lets you securely share web services, files, and network resources — whether they’re across the internet or your private network.

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Files

Hazelnut – automated file organizer

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Hazelnut is a terminal-based automated file organizer inspired by Hazel.

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Technology

14 Best Free and Open Source Steganography Tools

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

Conceal messages in other messages.

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Images

rsimg – terminal image viewer

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

rsimg is a terminal image viewer written in rust which displays images with Unicode characters.

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Typing

Couik – terminal-based typing test

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Education, TUI

Couik is a terminal-based typing test designed for speed, aesthetics, and simplicity. Built with Bubble Tea.

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Image of Files

filebyte – list files and directories

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

filebyte is a CLI tool to list files and directories with intelligent size formatting, advanced filtering, and comprehensive file analysis.

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picocom – minimal dumb-terminal emulation program

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program. It is, in principle, very much like minicom, only it’s “pico” instead of “mini”.

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Selection of utilities

up – write Linux pipes

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

up (Ultimate Plumber) is a tool for writing Linux pipes in a terminal-based UI interactively, with instant live preview of command results.

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Gaming Chat

Discordo – feature-rich terminal Discord client

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Discordo is a lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord terminal client. Heavily work-in-progress, expect breaking changes.

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Video-Emulators

StarPSX – PlayStation 1 emulator

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

StarPSX is a PlayStation 1 emulator written in Rust. It features a native cross-platform GUI (eframe/egui) with a built-in debugger.

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