Colorice generates wallpaper-driven Linux colour schemes in Oklab, enforces readable contrast, and applies palettes through configurable templates.
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Author: Steve Emms
5 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Linux Discord Clients
In this roundup, we focus on terminal-based software only. There’s a separate roundup for GUI-based clients.
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gittuf – security layer for Git repositories
gittuf is a platform-agnostic security layer for Git repositories that lets developers independently verify repository security policies.
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19 Best Free and Open Source Linux Digital Forensics Tools
Digital forensics is a specialist art. It allows investigations to be undertaken without modifying the media.
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hw-monitor – comprehensive hardware monitoring application
hw-monitor is a Linux desktop hardware monitor with live CPU, memory, GPU, disk and network data, sensors, processes and services.
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CLP – compress, search and analyze logs
CLP compresses structured and unstructured logs while keeping them searchable, with web-based analysis, real-time ingestion and log processing.
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pywal16 – generate and change colour schemes on the fly
pywal16 generates 16-colour palettes from images and applies them across Linux desktops, terminals and applications using flexible templates.
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Hakoniwa – process isolation using Linux security facilities
Hakoniwa provides Linux process isolation with namespaces, cgroups, resource limits, Landlock, seccomp and configurable filesystem access.
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13 Best Free and Open Source Zsh Plugin Managers
Zsh is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting.
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isolate – secure execution environment for untrusted programs
isolate securely runs untrusted Linux programs in restricted environments with namespaces, cgroups, resource limits and syscall filtering.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft SQL Server
Explore the best free and open source alternatives to Microsoft SQL Server.
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mpdris2-rs – expose MPD playback through MPRIS2
mpdris2-rs is a lightweight Rust bridge exposing MPD playback and queue information through MPRIS2, with remote cover art support.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Software Bill of Materials Tools
Discover the best free and open source tools for generating and analysing Software Bills of Materials on Linux.
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pacrank – pick the fastest Arch Linux mirrors
pacrank ranks Arch Linux mirrors using latency and real download throughput, then safely replaces Pacman’s mirrorlist with the fastest choices.
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Freezed – TYPO3 Fluid Static Site Generator
Freezed is a PHP static site generator using TYPO3 Fluid templates, stackable themes, build hooks, sitemap generation and static output.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical Port Scanners
Here’s our verdict on the best graphical port scanners.
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Notation – sign and verify software artifacts
Notation is a command-line tool for signing and verifying container images and other artifacts stored in OCI registries.
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28 Best Free and Open Source Linux Color Pickers
A color picker is a software tool used to select colors and, in some cases, to create color schemes.
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Jollpi – lightweight GTK 4 text editor with syntax highlighting
Jollpi is a lightweight Python and GTK 4 text editor with syntax highlighting, tabs, asynchronous file loading, and a minimap.
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Syd – configurable application sandbox for Linux
Syd is a Linux application sandbox using seccomp, Landlock and namespaces to control filesystem, network and process behaviour.
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