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11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Digital Forensics Tools

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Security, System Software

Digital forensics is a specialist art. It allows investigations to be undertaken without modifying the media.

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Breathing – guides your breathing pattern

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Breathing is a simple application that guides your breathing pattern. This pattern is recommended by experts to help ease anxiety.

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playerctl – MPRIS media player command-line controller

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Playerctl is a command-line utility and library for controlling media players that implement the MPRIS D-Bus Interface Specification.

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fanxiang S880 2TB NVMe SSD Review

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

This is a capsule review of the fanxiang S880 2TB NVMe SSD. It’s available in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities.

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Firefly AIBOX 3588S

Firefly AIBOX-3588S Running Linux: Access Remote File Systems Over SSH with SSHFS

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

SSHFS is a file system in user space (FUSE) that uses the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to mount a remote file system.

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Stimulator keeps your computer awake

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Stimulator prevents the desktop environment (DE) from sleeping. It should work regardless of the used DE thanks to the Inhibit portal.

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Terminal Session Recording

rewindtty – terminal session recorder and replayer

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

rewindtty is a terminal session recorder and replayer written in C to capture and replay terminal sessions with precise timing.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Wildcard – test your regular expressions

August 6, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Wildcard gives you a nice and simple to use interface to test/practice regular expressions.

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Teleprompter – read scrolling text from your screen

August 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Teleprompter is a simple Gtk4 app to read scrolling text from your screen.

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Log Analyzers

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Logfile Viewers

August 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of useful Linux logfile viewers.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Telegraph – Morse translator

August 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Telegraph is a simple Morse translator, start typing your message to see the resulting Morse code and vice versa.

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Game Tools

lsfg-vk – Lossless Scaling Frame Generation

August 5, 2025 Steve Emms Games

This project attempts to bring one of its most commonly used features, Lossless Scaling Frame Generation, to Linux users.

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Notes

Noteworthy – Markdown notes app

August 5, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Noteworthy is billed as a modern, fast, and version-controlled Markdown notes app.

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What to cook?

August 5, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

You don’t know what to cook today? This project will suggest you one recipe, adapting to the ingredients that you have available at home.

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Radxa Rock 5T

Radxa ROCK 5T Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction

August 5, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the Radxa ROCK 5T single board computer. It’s billed as an elegant computer with 8K + 4K dual display.

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CPU

brokefetch – neofetch clone

August 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

brokefetch is the only system info tool that doesn’t pretend your life is okay.

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Images

tinifier – image compression tool

August 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

tinifier is a CLI tool for compressing images using the TinyPNG API, with parallel processing to speed up the workflow.

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Network

astronaut – Gemini browser for the terminal

August 4, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

astronaut is a Gemini browser for the terminal. It’s written in the Go programming language.

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14 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Gemini Clients

August 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, TUI

Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.

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Tamari – fully-featured recipe manager

August 4, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Tamari is a fully-featured recipe manager web application built using Python and the Flask Framework.

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