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Reference Managers

Citations – manage your bibliography

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Citations is software designed to manage your bibliographies using the BibTeX format. It’s written in Rust.

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Chat

rirc – terminal-based IRC client

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

rirc is a minimalistic IRC client written in the C programming language.

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SSD

dut – disk usage calculator

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

By default, dut will output a tree of the biggest directories it finds under your current directory.

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Database

vkCommander – GUI application for monitoring and analyzing Valkey databases

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms Database, GUI

vkCommander is a Desktop Manager for Valkey databases with an intuitive interface for connecting to Valkey instances.

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1TB microSD card

TEAMGROUP ULTRA Micro SDXC A2 V30 Memory Card 1TB Review

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

For this review I’m evaluating the TEAMGROUP ULTRA Micro SDXC A2 V30 Memory Card 1TB. Yes, a whopping 1TB card.

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SSD

Bonsai – TUI remake of GNOME Baobab

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Bonsai is a terminal user interface (TUI) remake of the GNOME Baobab disk usage analyzer.

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Task Manager

taskfinder – extracts and displays tasks from plain text files

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Keep your project-related tasks where they belong. taskfinder, a terminal user interface (TUI), will extract and display them.

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Anti-Malware Tools

14 Best Free and Open Source Anti-Malware Tools

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

Security is paramount. Security involves defence in depth. Approaching security one step at a time, with consistency and rigour, you can mitigate threats, and keep intruders at bay.

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Laser cutting

Rayforge – laser cutters and engravers tool

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Rayforge is a modern, cross-platform G-code sender and control software for GRBL-based laser cutters and engravers.

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Task Manager

TowDow – tasks and process management

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

TowDow is a task and process manager that helps individuals and teams plan work, track progress, and collaborate on structured flows.

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File Managers

jafff – just another f* fast file manager

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

jafff is just another fast file manager. It’s inspired by the now abandoned fff file manager.

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Game Tools

Ball2Box – casual ball game

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Ball2Box is a causal ball game. Swipe to shoot the ball into the box in over 100 levels with only one finger.

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Groupware

hii – file-based IRC client

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

hii is a file-based IRC client inspired by ii. Backwards compatibility with ii wasn’t a goal.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Machine Learning in Linux: Dia – 1.6B parameter text to speech model

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific

Dia is a text to speech model capable of generating ultra-realistic dialogue in a single pass.

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Documentation

pingstat – multi-server ping logging

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pingstat is a lightweight, user-level script for multi-server ping logging, storing stats per server in user-writable SQLite databases.

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Administrators in action

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sudo

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to sudo, a command which lets you execute a command as another user.

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Documentation

myping – ping multiple hosts at the same time

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

myping is a command-line utility to ping multiple hosts at once and display the reachability over time.

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System Administration

asroot – simpler alternative to sudo and doas

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asroot is a command-line utility to run a process as the root user. It’s written in the C language

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Git Clients

9 Best Free and Open Source Text-Based Git Clients

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Roundup

Our recommended text-based Git clients, captured in a legendary LinuxLinks chart. We only feature free and open source software here.

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Administrators in action

sudo-rs – memory safe implementation of sudo and su

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sudo-rs is a safety oriented and memory safe implementation of sudo and su written in Rust. It’s an independent implementation.

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