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Author: Steve Emms
Glues – Vim-inspired TUI note-taking app
Glues is a Vim-inspired, terminal-based (TUI) note-taking application that offers flexible and secure storage options.
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tongo – TUI for MongoDB
tongo is a fast and keyboard-driven TUI for MongoDB. Navigate and manipulate your data without leaving your terminal.
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5 Best Free and Open Source Proof Assistants
A proof assistant or interactive theorem prover is a software tool to assist with the development of formal proofs by human-machine collaboration.
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8N1Term – serial terminal
8N1Term is billed as a next-generation serial terminal that removes ASCII table lookup.
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Hexus – process manager
Hexus is a process manager built using .NET 10 designed to work on Linux and Windows seamlessly.
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zigfetch – system profiler
Zigfetch is a minimal neofetch/fastfetch like system information tool.
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httpx – fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit
httpx is a fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit that allows running multiple probes using the retryablehttp library.
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Anvil – streamline tool installation and team onboarding
Install the tools you need, sync your configs, and keep your environment consistent with a single command-line tool.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2026 Updates
January 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Virtual Keyboards
The software displays a visual keyboard with all the standard keys.
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YuFi – lightweight Wi-Fi manager
YuFi is a lightweight GTK4 Wi‑Fi manager. It focuses on a clean, minimal dashboard for quick toggles, scanning, and network management.
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wvkbd – on-screen keyboard for wlroots
wvkbd aims to deliver a minimal but practically usable implementation of a wlroots on-screen keyboard in legible C.
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Stratis – local storage management
Stratis is a tool to easily configure pools and filesystems with enhanced storage functionality.
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12 Best Free and Open Source Digital Audio Workstations
A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for recording, editing and producing audio files.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: jq – JSON processor
This article spotlights alternative tools to jq, a command-line JSON processor.
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qq – jq but an interoperable configuration format transcoder
qq is multi modal, and can be used as a replacement for jq or be interacted with via a REPL.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Ray Tracing Software
Ray tracing is a technique for modeling light transport for use in a wide variety of rendering algorithms for generating digital images.
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s3fs – mount an S3 bucket via FUSE
s3fs allows Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD to mount an S3 bucket via FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace).
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Scalene – memory profiler
Scalene is a high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, and memory profiler for Python with AI-powered optimization proposals.
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