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Chess Engines

25 Strong Free and Open Source Chess Engines

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games, Software

Computer chess has been a phenomenal success, aiding chess analysis, and allowing players to play when no human opponents are available.

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Text Editor

NovProg – graph your progress in writing a novel

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

NovProg is a tool to graph your progress in writing a novel. You enter your wordcount and it updates a graph showing you how much progress you have made. It also shows you how far you are through your daily

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Machine Learning

Minisforum AI X1 Pro: Jan – Chat with AI without privacy concerns

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews, Scientific

A simple real-world test of the performance of the Radeon 890M with Jan, an open source ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline.

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Software

trizen – lightweight AUR package manager

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trizen is a lightweight AUR package manager that’s written in the Perl programming language.

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Cloud storage

gossa – fast and simple multimedia fileserver

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

gossa is a fast and simple webserver for your files, that’s dependency-free and with under 250 lines of code, easy to review.

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ROCK 4D

Radxa ROCK 4D Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction to the Series

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This series looks at the Radxa ROCK 4D single board computer. It’s billed as a high-performance SBC for Edge AI and 4K multimedia.

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Musical instruments

GrandOrgue – pipe organ simulator

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

GrandOrgue is a virtual pipe organ sample player application supporting a HW1 compatible file format.

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Terminal Session Recording

17 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Session Recording

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Roundup

Console screencast software (also known as terminal recorder) lets you capture your terminal. Here’s our verdict.

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TV

Tunarr – create and configure live TV channels

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

Tunarr lets you create live TV channels from media on your Plex/Jellyfin servers, and more

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Files

IFM – Improved File Manager

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Web Apps

The IFM is a web-based filemanager, which comes as a single file solution using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and PHP.

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Circuit board

F-Fetch – fast and minimal system fetcher

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

F-Fetch is a very fast, minimal terminal system fetcher. It is highly customizable

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Software

pikaur – AUR helper with minimal dependencies

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pikaur is an AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.

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Google Drawings

Project Graph – next generation node graph drawing tool

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Project Graph is a simple but powerful tool for drawing graphs. Unleash creativity and streamline workflows with AI-powered graph design.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: Power Consumption

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I put the Minisforum AI X1 Pro mini PC under a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.

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Comic Books

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Comic Book Viewers

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms Other, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 17 proficient dedicated comic book viewers.

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coala – lint and fix code

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

coala provides a unified interface for linting and fixing code with a single configuration file

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Selection of utilities

chsrc – change source

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

chsrc is a command-line utility to change source everywhere for every software.

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File Managers

Filestash – Dropbox-like file manager

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Filestash is a Dropbox-like file manager that let you manage your data anywhere it is located.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: GIMP AI Plugins

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I’m exploring GIMP AI plugins for the Arc 140T. These provide a set of OpenVINO based plugins that add AI features to GIMP.

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Cloud storage

copyparty – portable file server

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Web Apps

copyparty turns almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser.

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