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split-ping – see the direction of loss or latency

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

split-ping is a tool that tells you what direction packet latency or loss is on. This is handy for network debugging and locating congestion.

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Circuit board

Ångströmfetch – system fetch tool

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Ångströmfetch is billed as the fast(est) system fetch tool for Linux with a low footprint.

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3D Printer

OctoPrint – snappy web interface for your 3D printer

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities, Web Apps

OctoPrint provides a snappy web interface for controlling consumer 3D printers. It’s written in Python and JavaScript.

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Desktop Environments

Plank Reloaded – lightweight, customizable Linux dock

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop

Plank Reloaded is a fork of the original Plank project, providing a simple dock for X11 desktop environments.

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Server

5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Network Authentication Tools

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Security, System Software

Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) is a networking protocol that offers centralized connection authentication, authorization, and accounting management for various types of network access.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

TReX – terminal app for RegEx visualization

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

TReX is a terminal-based tool for writing, visualizing, and testing regular expressions.

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Office

4 Best Free and Open Source Office Suites

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms Office, Roundup

An office suite is a collection of productivity software usually containing a word processor, spreadsheet and a presentation program.

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Server

RADIUSdesk – RADIUS management platform

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

RADIUSdesk is a powerful and user-friendly RADIUS management platform to simplify the admin of network authentication and accounting.

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Composing Music

12 Excellent Free and Open Source Scorewriters – Compose, arrange, print, and publish music

December 15, 2025 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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Configuring music

Lichen – multi-headphone audio router for Linux

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Lichen lets you route audio to multiple headphones simultaneously and mix multiple microphones into a single virtual input.

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Digital Audio Workstations

Helio – music sequencer

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Helio aims to be a modern music creation software, featuring linear-based/pattern-based sequencer with clean UI

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Benchmarking the BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI Mini PC

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The BOSGAME M6 is a very powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor. I put it through various benchmark tests.

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mcat – extended cat command

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Utilities

mcat is a terminal image, video and Markdown viewer. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Circuit board

rustffetch – neofetch-like information manager

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

rustffetch is a simple, fast and flexible neofetch-like information manager.

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Screen Capture

lqth – screenshot utility

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lqth is a simple but fast screenshot utility inspired by xscreenshot and follows the suckless philosophy. It supports X only (no Wayland support).

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Dire Wolf – AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Other

Dire Wolf is a software “soundcard” AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder. It can be used stand-alone to observe APRS traffic, and more.

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Book

5 Best Free and Open Source CardDAV Servers

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

CardDAV (“Card Distributed Authoring and Versioning”) is a standardized address book client/server protocol.

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Documentation

mping – simple multicast ping

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mping aspires to be an easy to use and script friendly program with support for both IPv4 and IPv6.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: rm

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to rm, a command that removes files or directories.

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Search

11 Best Free and Open Source Search Engines for Big Data

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup

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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