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Selection of utilities

Fnf – interactive fuzzy finder for the terminal

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Fnf is a fork of fzy, adding features such as 256 and 24-bit color support, configurable padding, and multi-selection.

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Image Viewers

45 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Image Viewers

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Images are part of every day internet usage. We recommend the finest free and open source graphical image viewers available for Linux.

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Selection of utilities

csvlens – command-line CSV file viewer

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

csvlens is a command-line CSV file viewer that works like less, but is designed specifically for tabular data.

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DJ

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Software for DJs

June 10, 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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Finance

Econumo – self-hostable personal and family finance application

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

Econumo is a self-hostable personal and family finance application for tracking money across accounts, currencies, and budgets.

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Dashboard

Apache HertzBeat – observability platform

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

HertzBeat is an observability platform that brings monitoring, log collection, alerting, notification delivery, and status page creation.

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Chat

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Usenet Tools

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. We recommend the best free and open source Usenet tools.

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Dashboard

Yet Another Status Page – self-hosted status page application

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Yet Another Status Page is a self-hosted status page application built with Next.js and Payload CMS.

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Dashboard

Checkmate – self-hosted infrastructure monitoring application

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Checkmate is a self-hosted infrastructure monitoring application that gives administrators a central web interface.

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MS-02 Ultra

Minisforum MS-02 Ultra 285HX running Linux – BIOS

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Explore the Minisforum MS-02 Ultra 285HX BIOS including power limits, TPM, CPU controls, fan settings, Secure Boot, and CachyOS boot setup.

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Natural Language Processing

doccano – data labelling and text annotation platform

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

doccano is a data labelling and text annotation platform for machine learning practitioners.

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TV

Sonarr – smart personal video recorder and media management

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Sonarr is a smart personal video recorder and media management application for TV series.

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VoIP

6 Best Free and Open Source Noise Suppression Tools

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

This article selects our pick of the available noise suppression tools. We only explore free and open source software here.

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Server

Warewulf – stateless, network-boot cluster provisioning system

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Warewulf is a stateless, network-boot cluster provisioning system designed primarily for high-performance computing clusters.

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Screenwriting

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Script Writing Tools

June 9, 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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Dashboard

Gatus – developer-oriented status dashboard and health monitoring application

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Gatus is a developer-oriented status dashboard and health monitoring application for self-hosted services and infrastructure.

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Server

Tinkerbell – bare metal provisioning engine

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Tinkerbell is a bare metal provisioning engine designed to automate the installation and configuration of physical machines.

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Network

Ozone – scalable distributed object store

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Apache Ozone is a scalable distributed object store built for large-scale analytics, cloud-native platforms, and data-intensive environments.

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Natural Language Processing

BERTopic – topic modeling

June 8, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

BERTopic is a Python package for topic modeling that uses transformer-based embeddings and class-based TF-IDF.

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Server

Ironic – OpenStack service for managing and provisioning bare metal servers

June 8, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Ironic is an OpenStack service for managing and provisioning bare metal servers.

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