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Business Intelligence

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Business Intelligence Software

November 5, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Office, Productivity, Roundup

A business intelligence platform includes three layers: a database layer, a business intelligence layer, and an analytics/performance management layer. Here’s our roundup of the best business intelligence software.

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Wallpaper Setter

BingWallE – collect Bing and Windows Spotlight wallpapers

November 5, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

BingWallE collects Bing daily and Windows Spotlight wallpapers, with gallery previews, high-resolution downloads and editable photo tags.

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5 Useful Free and Open Source Code Formatters for Clojure

November 5, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This roundup selects some useful code formatters for Clojure developers.

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JSON Tools

Tennis – stylish terminal viewer for CSV, JSON and SQLite data

November 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tennis displays CSV, TSV, JSON and SQLite data as colourful terminal tables with automatic layouts, sorting, filtering, and previews.

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Website

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Web Caches

November 5, 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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Arcade Games

Aerofoil – modern port of the classic Glider PRO game

November 5, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Aerofoil recreates Glider PRO, the classic Macintosh paper airplane game, with enhanced graphics, gamepad support and a level editor.

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12 Useful Code Formatters for Python

November 5, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This roundup selects some useful code formatters for Python developers.

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Natural Language Processing

Spark NLP – scalable natural language processing library

November 5, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Spark NLP provides scalable language processing on Apache Spark with pretrained models for classification, entities, translation and more.

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Find Security Bugs – static security analysis for Java applications

November 4, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Find Security Bugs detects Java vulnerabilities through SpotBugs, covering injection flaws, hard-coded secrets and insecure APIs.

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Email

Rail – terminal email client for Gmail and Microsoft 365

November 4, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Rail is a terminal email client for Gmail and Microsoft 365 with local search, threaded reading, account sync, and editor-based composing.

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Monitor System

Stacer (fork) – Linux system optimizer and monitoring tool

November 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Stacer is a Qt-based Linux system optimiser with resource graphs, service and process controls, startup management and system cleaning.

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Network

3FS – high-performance distributed file system

November 4, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

3FS is a distributed file system for AI workloads, combining RDMA networks, NVMe storage, strong consistency and parallel checkpointing.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: ShimeLinux – animated desktop pets for Linux

November 4, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews

ShimeLinux brings animated Shimeji pets to the Linux desktop, with custom characters, playful behaviour and KDE Plasma window interaction.

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Cloud

Kubus – graphical Kubernetes cluster management

November 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Kubus is a Kubernetes desktop client for managing clusters, inspecting resources, streaming logs, editing YAML and operating Helm releases.

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Electronic circuit

13 Best Free and Open Source GUI Electronic Circuit Simulators

November 4, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Electronic circuit simulation uses mathematical models to replicate the behavior of an actual electronic device or circuit. We feature the best GUI tools.

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Game Tools

Coronet – crown-placement logic puzzle game

November 4, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Coronet is a logic puzzle that challenges players to place one crown in every row, column and coloured region without any crowns touching.

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Coding

8 Best Free and Open Source Clojure Linter Tools

November 4, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This article picks some useful tools to help you fix Clojure code.

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Natural Language Processing

Apache cTAKES – clinical natural language processing platform

November 4, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Apache cTAKES analyses clinical text to identify medical concepts, medications, diagnoses, procedures, and temporal relationships.

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SSort – automatically organise Python statements

November 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

SSort reorganises Python statements by dependency, groups class members and offers checking and diff modes for source consistency.

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Manage creative assets

Koko – image gallery for desktop and touch devices

November 3, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Koko is KDE’s image gallery for Linux desktops and touch devices, with album browsing, full-screen slideshows and basic image editing.

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