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Typing

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Typing Tutors

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Office, Productivity, Roundup

Typing tutor software teaches fast and accurate typing through a system of informative lessons and progress tracking.

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Developer of the Week

Developer of the Week: Matthias Ettrich

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms Blog

Matthias Ettrich, born on 14 June 1972, is a German computer scientist who founded the KDE and LyX projects.

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Selection of utilities

rush – command-line tool for executing jobs in parallel

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rush is a tool similar to parallel and gargs.

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15 Best Free and Open Source Linux TUI Typing Tutors

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Productivity, Roundup, TUI

We look at the finest TUI-based typing tutors for Linux.

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Start up

5 Useful Free and Open Source Graphical GRUB Config Tools

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

GRUB is a boot loader software used in Linux systems. We pick 5 useful GUI tools to edit the bootloader configuration.

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Education

Mundi – geography learning application for GNOME

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Mundi is a geography learning application for GNOME that helps users test their knowledge of world regions through interactive map exercises.

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Electronic circuit

6 Best Free and Open Source Backend Electronic Circuit Simulators

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Electronic circuit simulation uses mathematical models to replicate the behavior of an actual electronic device or circuit.

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File Managers

autotidy – cross-platform file organization daemon

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

autotidy is a cross-platform file organization daemon that watches directories and applies user-defined YAML rules to incoming files.

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Dylint – Rust linting tool

April 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Dylint is a linting tool that lets developers run lints packaged as dynamic libraries rather than being limited to a fixed built-in lint set.

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ActivityWatch – automated time tracking application

April 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

ActivityWatch is automated time tracking recording showing time spent on your devices while keeping the collected data on your own machine.

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Chat

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical IRC Clients

April 11, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. We recommend the best free and open source graphical IRC clients.

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CDROM

Laser – simple CD ripper for the GNOME desktop

April 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Laser offers a straightforward graphical interface for extracting audio tracks from compact discs.

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SSD

darya – disk usage explorer

April 11, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Darya is a keyboard-driven disk usage explorer for the terminal written in Rust.

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Files

AIFiles – organize your files

April 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

AIFiles is a command-line application that uses AI to analyse files and help organise them into structured folders with meaningful names.

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Wifi

11 Best Free and Open Source Wireless Security Tools

April 11, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Security

Wireless security is the prevention of unauthorized access or damage to computers or data using wireless networks, which include Wi-Fi networks.

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Git Clients

GitPulsar – lightweight, GNOME-native Git GUI

April 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

GitPulsar enhances Git workflows by automatically capturing and preserving the state of a working directory in the background.

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Machine Learning in Linux

llmfit – find local large language models

April 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

llmfit is a terminal application that helps users find local large language models that are suitable for the hardware they already own.

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Git Clients

GitSocial – Git-native cross-forge collaboration

April 10, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

GitSocial is a Git-native collaboration platform that turns a repository into a shared space for posts, issue management, and more.

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Files

jsongrep – fast querying of JSON, YAML, TOML, JSONL, CBOR

April 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

jsongrep is a CLI tool and Rust library for querying structured data with a JSONPath-inspired language based on regular path expressions.

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Network

Findomain – Rust-based utility for discovering subdomains

April 10, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Findomain is a Rust-based utility for discovering subdomains by querying Certificate Transparency logs and multiple external APIs.

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