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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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16 Useful Free and Open Source 3D Model Viewers

November 3, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

This article focuses on software tools which let you view 3D models. There are a wide range of formats available.

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BOSGAME VTA-439

BOSGAME VTA-439 Mini PC Running Linux: Thief

November 3, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Thief benchmarks on the BOSGAME VTA-439 with Radeon 890M graphics, comparing 1080p gaming performance on CachyOS and Windows 11.

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Cloud

MicroCloud – automated private cloud infrastructure

November 3, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

MicroCloud creates small private clouds with LXD virtual machines, Ceph storage, OVN networking and automated cluster configuration.

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Art

charmascii – generate decorative ASCII art from text

November 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

charmascii creates colourful ASCII art from text, with FIGlet fonts, decorative borders, image export and a command-line interface.

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Classroom Tools

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Classroom Tools

November 3, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Roundup

The software featured in this article offers indispensable ways to help manage a computer-based classroom.

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Game Tools

Pully – Numberlink-style logic puzzle game

November 3, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Pully is a Numberlink-style logic puzzle with numbered checkpoints, walls, tunnels and increasingly challenging grids to complete.

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Big Data

4 Best Free and Open Source Native XML Databases for Big Data

November 3, 2026 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup, Scientific

Big Data is an all-inclusive term that refers to data sets so large and complex that they need to be processed by specially designed hardware and software tools.

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Recording Studio

GNOME Network Displays – cast your desktop to wireless displays

November 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

GNOME Network Displays casts your Linux desktop to Miracast and Chromecast receivers, with audio streaming and virtual display support.

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clj-depend – Clojure namespace dependency analyser

November 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

clj-depend analyses Clojure namespace dependencies, enforcing architectural layers, detecting circular references and checking custom rules.

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reorder-python-imports – automatically organise Python imports

November 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

reorder-python-imports is a command-line utility that automatically reorganises import statements in Python source files.

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Start up

Bootqt – create bootable USB drives from disk images

November 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Bootqt creates bootable USB drives from ISO, IMG and RAW files, with Linux image downloads, Ventoy integration and a simple Qt interface.

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Composing Music

13 Best Free and Open Source Scorewriters – Compose, arrange, print, and publish music

November 2, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A scorewriter is software used with a computer for creating, editing and printing sheet music. We recommend free and open source software.

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Audio Analyzers

Bootleg Toolbox – verify and manage lossless concert recordings

November 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

Bootleg Toolbox checks live concert recordings, detects lossy audio sources, repairs sector boundary errors and creates private torrents.

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Photo Metadata

Xviewer – simple image viewer

November 2, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics

Xviewer is Linux Mint’s image viewer with large-image handling, slideshows, automatic orientation, plugins and photo browsing.

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