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Author: Steve Emms

Compositing Window Managers

20 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Wayland Compositors

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on tiling Wayland compositors. We only feature free and open source software in this roundup.

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Application Launchers

Teabag – manage AppImage files

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Teabag is a Terminal User Interface (TUI) application built with Bubble Tea to manage AppImage files.

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postcss-bem-linter – BEM linter for PostCSS

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

BEM-style describes CSS that follows a more-or-less strict set of conventions determining what selectors can be used.

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SQL

sqlfmt – SQL formatter

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

sqlfmt formats your dbt SQL files. It is similar in nature to black, gofmt, and rustfmt (but for SQL).

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Selection of utilities

Lemurs – TUI display/login manager

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

Lemurs is a Terminal User Interface (TUI) Display/Login Managers written in Rust that works on most Linux and BSD distributions.

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Selection of utilities

beekeeper-qt – deduplicate redundant data

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

beekeeper-qt lets you free up disk space by removing redundant block-level data, both inside files and across multiple files.

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Compositing Window Managers

Volare – Wayland compositor

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Volare is a tabbed, tiling Wayland compositor written in the C language

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Network

Realm – simple relay server

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Realm is a simple, high performance relay server.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: traceroute

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. We recommend the best alternatives.

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Data Tools

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Data Recovery Tools

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

The software featured in this article are high quality standalone Linux tools which help you to recover data in a range of circumstances.

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Documents

17 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

When invoked without any arguments, ls lists the files in the current working directory. We recommend some great replacements.

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System administration

RevLix – data recovery tool

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

RevLix is a data recovery tool developed to recover deleted files on Linux systems. This program uses the PhotoRec infrastructure.

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ETR – ECMP traceroute

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ETR is a MTR-like tool for discovering and analyzing ECMP (Equal-Cost Multi-Path) network routes.

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Internet Radio

Transistor – GUI internet radio player

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Reviews

Transistor is a GUI internet radio player for Linux written in C++. It’s impressive to say the least!

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Flying robot

aria2tui – download manager

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

aria2TUI is a download management tool. It acts as a TUI client for the aria2c download utility.

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Documents

mokii – ls replacement

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Mokii is a modern file listing utility that levels up your ls game. It brings Unicode icons, color coding, sorting options

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ttl – modern traceroute

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

ttl is a network diagnostic tool that goes beyond traceroute: MTU discovery, NAT detection, route flap alerts, IX identification, and more.

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Load Balancing

12 Best Free and Open Source Load Balancers

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Load balancing is defined as the methodical and efficient distribution of network or application traffic across multiple servers. Here’s our verdict on the best ones for Linux.

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Hard drive utility

disktui – TUI for disk management and partitioning

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms Software

disktui is a TUI for disk management and partitioning written in Rust.

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ERP

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux ERP Software

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Web Apps

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) manages the information and functions of a business. We recommend the best free ERPs.

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