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Machine Learning

BrickGPT – generates a toy brick structure

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

BrickGPT generates a toy brick structure from a user-provided text prompt in an end-to-end manner.

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Git Clients

Forge Sparks – get Git forges notifications

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Forge Sparks is a simple notifier app with support for Github, GitLab, Gitea and Forgejo.

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YouTube

ytcc – keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

ytcc is a command line tool to keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube and many other places.

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System administration

Designate – multi-tenant DNSaaS service

July 20, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Designate is a multi-tenant DNSaaS service for OpenStack. It provides a REST API with integrated Keystone authentication.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Reminduck – simple reminder app

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Reminduck is a simple reminder app made to be quick and easy. Reminduck focuses on simple or recurrent reminders

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DomainMOD – manage your domains and other internet assets in a central location

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

DomainMOD is a self-hosted open source application used to manage your domains and other Internet assets in a central location

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Mind Mapping

11 Best Free and Open Source Mind Mapping Software

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup

Mind mapping software offers an excellent way of capturing your thoughts in a structured way, brainstorming new ideas.

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Shooter Games

Stratbook – strategies, tips, and tricks

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Help gamers improve and share their knowledge.

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System administration

SPFtoolbox – look up DNS records

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

SPFtoolbox is a JavaScript and PHP app to look up DNS records such as SPF, MX, Whois, and more.

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Flash OS

Essential Utilities: Flash OS Images

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

Linux offers a gamut of open source small utilities that perform functions ranging from the mundane to the wonderful. In our eyes, it’s the breadth of these tools that help to make Linux a compelling operating system.

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Encrypted Files

v02enc – symmetric encryption for multiple recipients

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

v02enc is a password-based encryption application that supports several recipients and has the option to update an encrypted file.

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Education

Lute – Learning Using Texts

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Lute (Learning Using Texts) v3, a Python/Flask tool for learning foreign languages through reading. It’s a standalone web application

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CAD

CAD Sketcher – constraint-based geometry sketcher

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

CAD Sketcher is a constraint-based sketcher extension for Blender that allows users o create precise 2d shapes.

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FTP

7 Best Free and Open Source Linux FTP Servers

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a time-honored method of transferring files to and from a remote network site.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk FBX Review

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

FBX Review is a lightweight, standalone software tool for viewing 3D assets and baked animations quickly and efficiently.

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HTerm – terminal program for serial communication

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

HTerm is a cross-platform terminal program for serial communication. It uses wxWidgets, fmt, and spdlog.

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Compression

10 Best Free and Open Source GUI Image Compression Tools

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Data compression is the process of storing data in a format that uses less space than the original representation would use.

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Documents

lsr – recursively list files in directories

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lsr lists directory contents, but with io_uring, a Linux kernel system call interface for storage device asynchronous I/O operations

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Document Management Systems

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Document Processors

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Education, Productivity, Roundup, Scientific

A document processor is a document preparation system. We recommend the best document processors.

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Minder

Mindolph – personal knowledge management software

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Mindolph is a personal knowledge management software with Gen-AI support for all desktop platforms

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