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Author: Steve Emms

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Gocaster – lightweight terminal-based podcast

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Gocaster is a lightweight terminal-based podcast client..It provides a Bubble Tea interface for browsing, subscribing to and playing podcasts.

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ATK Blazing Sky F1 V3 Series Esports Wireless Mouse Review

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Accessories, Hardware, Reviews

ATK Blazing Sky F1 V3 Ultimate+ wireless mouse, covering Linux support, 37g weight, PAW3955 sensor, 8K polling and battery life.

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Git Clients

drydock – track outstanding work across Git repositories

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

drydock is a fast Rust terminal dashboard for finding uncommitted, unpushed and unreleased work across collections of Git repositories.

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Media Center

Best Free and Open Source Media Centers

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 impressive free Linux media centers.

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Hypervisors

Cockpit Machines – web interface for managing virtual machines

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Cockpit Machines is a Cockpit application that provides a web interface for creating and managing virtual machines on a Linux host.

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Hilbish – highly extensible interactive shell

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Hilbish is a highly extensible interactive shell configured using Lua.

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Planet Earth

osgEarth – C++ geospatial SDK

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

osgEarth is a C++ geospatial SDK for adding accurate 3D maps and terrain to applications. It builds on OpenSceneGraph and GDAL

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Data Science

Euporie – work with Jupyter kernels and notebooks

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Euporie is a suite of terminal applications for working with Jupyter kernels and notebooks.

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13 Best Free and Open Source Font Viewers

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

This article highlights useful tools to view your fonts. We only feature free and open source software in this article.

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Duplito – command-line file lister and duplicate-file finder

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Duplito is a command-line file lister and duplicate-file finder. It builds a persistent database of file hashes and then uses that index

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Cicada – Bash-like Unix shell

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Cicada is a Bash-like Unix shell written in Rust. It is designed as a simple daily-use command interpreter.

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Mobile App Development

15 Best Free and Open Source Mobile Application Development Frameworks

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, System Software

Mobile application development is the process by which software is created for handheld devices. Here’s our verdict.

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Generate memes

meme-generator-rs – flexible meme creation toolkit

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Other

meme-generator-rs is a meme creation toolkit written in Rust. It combines a graphics engine with a large collection of built-in templates.

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MINISFORUM M2 Panther Lake Mini PC – NPU and Llama

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Benchmarking the Minisforum M2’s Intel NPU with Llama 3.2 1B and OpenVINO, including speed, TTFT and AMD Ryzen AI comparisons.

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Compositing Window Managers

15 Best Free and Open Source Stacking Wayland Compositors

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on stacking Wayland compositors. Only free and open source software is included in this article.

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Folder

TwinHunter – find and clean up duplicate files

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

TwinHunter is a command-line utility for finding and cleaning up duplicate files.

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Big Data

9 Top Data Analysis Free and Open Source Tools for Big Data

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup, Scientific

Big Data analysis can be performed with data mining software. Here’s the best free tools to perform data analysis on big data.

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Analytics Software

Medama – self-hosted, privacy-focused website analytics platform

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Medama is a self-hosted, privacy-focused website analytics platform. It provides real-time traffic information without using cookies.

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Data Science

Cantor – graphical front-end for mathematical, statistical and scientific computing software

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Cantor provides an interface for a collection of external programming languages, computer algebra systems and numerical computing packages.

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VoIP

tg – Telegram terminal client

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

tg is a Python Telegram terminal client with messaging, media, voice notes, secret chats, notifications and vi-style keybindings.

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