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12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Server Provisioning Tools

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

Server provisioning is a set of actions to prepare a server, taking it from bare metal to a functioning system.

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Watching World Cup

Terminal Eleven – terminal user interface for following the FIFA World Cup 2026

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms Games, TUI

Terminal Eleven is a terminal user interface for following the FIFA World Cup 2026 from the command line.

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Monitor System

12 Best Free and Open Source GUI Tools for System Resources Monitoring in Linux

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

The tools featured in this roundup are targeted at a desktop user who wants to monitor resources being used on their machine.

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World Cup

Golazo – follow football games

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms Games, TUI

Golazo is a minimalist terminal user interface (TUI) for following football matches in real-time.

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Graphics card image

11 Best Free and Open Source NVIDIA GPU Monitoring Tools

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

nvidia-smi is a basic monitoring and management tool for NVIDIA graphics card. We explore other useful NVIDIA GPU monitoring tools.

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Security

LeechCore – physical memory acquisition library

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms Security

LeechCore is a physical memory acquisition library aimed at digital forensics, incident response, and low-level security research.

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Documentation Generators

Starlight – documentation website framework

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Starlight is a documentation website framework for Astro designed to help developers publish polished documentation sites.

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Security

emd – command line memory acquisition tool for Linux systems

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

emd is a tool designed to dump physical memory using an eBPF filter, providing a way to capture system memory.

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Network

12 Best Free and Open Source File Systems for Big Data

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup, Scientific

This feature highlights the finest open source file systems designed to cope with the demands imposed by Big Data.

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BPM

CIB seven – workflow and process automation platform

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, System Software

CIB seven is a workflow and process automation platform built around a Java-based BPM engine.

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Documentation Generators

Antora – modular documentation site generator

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Antora is a modular documentation site generator for teams that write and manage documentation in AsciiDoc.

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MS-02 Ultra

Minisforum MS-02 Ultra 285HX running Linux – Btrfs

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

Explore Btrfs on the Minisforum MS-02 Ultra 285HX running CachyOS, including zstd compression, space savings, and no-compress tips for VMs.

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Cloud

11 Best Free and Open Source IDEs for Kubernetes

June 11, 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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Security

LEMON – memory acquisition utility

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Security

LEMON is a memory acquisition utility for Linux and Android systems.

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Natural Language Processing

11 Excellent Free and Open Source Java Natural Language Processing Tools

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, Scientific

Java remains one of the most widely used programming languages. We explore the best free and open source Java based NLP tools.

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Emmett – full-stack Python web framework

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Emmett is a full-stack Python web framework designed to help developers build web applications with clear, concise code.

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Cloud

Best Free and Open Source IaaS Software

June 11, 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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Personal Finance

ezBookkeeping – self-hosted personal finance application

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Financial

ezBookkeeping is a self-hosted personal finance application that helps users record everyday income and expenses.

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Art

32 Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools

June 11, 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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Security

mquire – Linux memory forensics and analysis tool

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Security

mquire is a Linux memory forensics and analysis tool for querying kernel memory dumps using SQL.

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