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Remote Display

18 Best Free and Open Source Remote Desktop Servers

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

This article examines the best free Linux remote desktop servers.

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Economics

Dynare – software platform for handling economic models

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Financial

Dynare handles DSGE, OLG and heterogeneous-agent economic models with simulation, estimation, forecasting and optimal-policy tools.

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Notes

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Handwritten GUI Notes Apps

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Roundup

Handwritten note-taking applications bring pen-and-paper workflow to the Linux desktop. We pick the best tools for the job.

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Images of shells by the sea

loksh – Linux port of the Korn shell

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

loksh is a Linux port of the Korn shell supplied by OpenBSD. It follows the OpenBSD source closely

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Web Browsers

Carboxyl – community-maintained fork of Carbonyl

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Carboxyl is a community-maintained fork of Carbonyl, a Chromium-based web browser designed to run inside a terminal.

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Marcel – modern shell

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Marcel is a modern shell that uses Python values rather than plain text as the primary data passed through pipelines.

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Reference Management

Papr – terminal workspace for academic research

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Scientific, TUI

Papr is a terminal research workspace combining arXiv discovery, PDF management, reading, notes and LaTeX and Typst manuscript editing.

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Planet Earth

TerriaMap – build and deploy geospatial data explorers

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

TerriaMap is a complete web application for building and deploying geospatial data explorers. It uses the TerriaJS platform.

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Hypervisors

Multipass – lightweight virtual machine manager

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Multipass is a lightweight virtual machine manager for Linux, Windows and macOS.

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IRC Servers

Edbrowse – command-line text editor, web browser, email client, IRC client and database interface

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Edbrowse is modelled on the ed text editor and presents web content through a command-response interface

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Web Browsers

11 Best Free and Open Source Lightweight Graphical Web Browsers

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

This article identifies the finest free and open source graphical web browsers that have a small footprint.

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Hypervisors

Kudu – create and manage QEMU virtual machines from the terminal

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Kudu is a Rust terminal interface for creating and managing QEMU virtual machines on Linux without requiring libvirt.

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Podcast

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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Images of shells by the sea

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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