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Author: Steve Emms

Bitcoin

Electron Cash – Bitcoin Cash cryptocurrency wallet

November 12, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, GUI

Electron Cash is a Bitcoin Cash wallet with SPV verification, private-key control, multisignature support, cold storage, and CashTokens.

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Cloud

12 Best Free and Open Source IDEs for Kubernetes

November 12, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Kubernetes is a powerful open-source platform designed to streamline the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

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Compositing Window Managers

Compiz Reloaded – OpenGL compositing window manager for X11

November 12, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, GUI

Compiz Reloaded is an OpenGL compositing window manager for X11 with configurable desktop effects, workspace navigation, and plugins.

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Security

slsa-verifier – verify software build provenance

November 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

slsa-verifier checks signed SLSA build provenance for binaries, container images and npm packages, validating builders, sources and tags.

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Art

34 Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools

November 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures.

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Framework

FastHTML – HTML-first Python web framework

November 12, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

FastHTML is a Python web framework for building server-rendered HTML applications with HTMX, concise routing, and reusable components.

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Cloud

9 Best Free and Open Source IaaS Software

November 12, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a service model where an organization outsources the equipment used to support storage, hardware, servers and networking components.

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Database

LiteDB – embedded BSON database

November 12, 2026 Steve Emms Database, Documents

LiteDB stores BSON documents in a single database file, with ACID transactions, LINQ queries, secondary indexes, and object mapping.

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Selection of utilities

Haystack – graphical editor for openQA needles

November 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Haystack is a GNOME editor for openQA needles, letting testers select local screenshot repositories and mark areas for visual matching.

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Natural Language Processing

Marian – neural machine translation framework

November 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Marian is a neural machine translation framework supporting Transformers, recurrent models, multi-GPU training and efficient decoding.

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Database

RxDB – reactive document database

November 11, 2026 Steve Emms Database, Documents

RxDB stores reactive document collections with observable queries, schema validation, local-first access, and replication across devices.

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Database

openGauss – relational database management system

November 11, 2026 Steve Emms Database, Documents

openGauss is a relational database designed for high concurrency, memory-optimised transactions, high availability, and SQL diagnostics.

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Web Content Management Systems

11 Best Free and Open Source Ruby-Based Web Content Management Systems

November 11, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

Here’s our favorite Ruby-based web content management systems.

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Compositing Window Managers

Muffin – window manager and compositor for Cinnamon

November 11, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Muffin is Cinnamon’s window manager and compositor, managing X11 windows, Wayland sessions, workspaces, displays, and visual effects.

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DJ

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Software for DJs

November 11, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

If you’re starting out as a DJ, you’ll probably want to try free software, as proprietary solutions can be very expensive. Fortunately, Linux has useful software for DJs.

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Framework

NiceGUI – Python framework for graphical user interfaces

November 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

NiceGUI is a Python framework for browser-based and native user interfaces with charts, dashboards, forms, data binding, and 3D scenes.

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Minisforum M2 Pro

Compiling Software on the Minisforum M2, M2 Pro and BOSGAME VTA-439

November 11, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Comparing fooyin compilation performance on three Linux mini PCs featuring Intel Core Ultra 7, Core Ultra X7 358H and AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470.

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Text Editing

neovim-gtk – GTK4 graphical frontend for Neovim

November 11, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

neovim-gtk provides a GTK4 desktop interface for Neovim with ligatures, smooth resizing, native clipboard integration, and GUI menus.

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Screenwriting

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Script Writing Tools

November 11, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Education, Roundup, Utilities

Script writing is the art and craft of writing scripts for the general public. The script can take the form of musicals, plays, novels, films, television programmes, and more.

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Natural Language Processing

UDPipe – trainable natural language processing pipeline

November 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

UDPipe provides trainable tokenisation, part-of-speech tagging, lemmatisation and dependency parsing for multilingual text corpora.

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