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Writing Tools

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Tools for Novelists

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Education, Roundup

The software featured in this article is designed to meet the specialised needs of a budding novelist.

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Bioinformatics

MNELAB – GUI for MNE-Python

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

MNELAB is a graphical user interface (GUI) for MNE-Python, a Python package for EEG/MEG analysis.

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Password Managers

MUTN – self-hosted, SSH-synchronized password and note manager

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

MUTN is a simple, self-hosted, SSH-synchronized password and note manager based on libmutton. It is the successor to sshyp.

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Codanna – X-ray vision for your agent

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Scientific

Give your code assistant the ability to see through your codebase—understanding functions, tracing relationships, and finding implementations

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Selection of utilities

autogit – automatically build, update or install Pacman applications

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Autogit is a Bash tool to automatically build, update or install Pacman applications from PKGBUILD’s

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NPU Blog

AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 NPU in Linux: Gaia – Run LLM Agents

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Gaia is open source software designed for the quick setup and execution of generative AI applications on local PC hardware.

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Archive Manager

Choosing a Journaling File System

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

A journaling file system is a special type of file system that maintains a tracking file, called a journal.

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SSH-Studio – edit SSH configuration files

September 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

SSH-Studio is a native GTK4 desktop app for editing and validating your ~/.ssh/config.

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Camera Tools

RapidRAW – non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor

September 28, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

RapidRAW is a non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor that aims to be an alternative to Adobe Lightroom.

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sshPilot – lightweight SSH connection manager

September 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

sshPilot is a user-friendly, lightweight SSH connection manager with an integrated terminal.

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Selection of utilities

BPM Detect – automatic BPM detection tool

September 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

BPM Detect is an automatic BPM (beats per minute) detection utility. It uses SoundTouch’s BPM library.

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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Mapping Tools

September 28, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

This roundup includes mapping software which offers quick access to maps all across the world. We also include some specialised tools.

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Game Tools

T-Crisis 4 – Tetris-like falling blocks puzzle game

September 28, 2025 Steve Emms Games

T-Crisis 4 is a Tetris-like falling blocks puzzle game with 4-player local multiplayer.

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Audio Analyzers

Parlatype – media player for transcription

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Parlatype is a minimal audio player for manual speech transcription, written for the GNOME desktop environment.

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Files

mldonkey-next – modern client for mldonkey

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

mldonkey-next is a modern GUI for the multi-protocol p2p filesharing application mldonkey.

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cwal – generates dynamic color schemes from images

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

cwal extracts dominant colors from your chosen image and applies them to your terminal, applications, and other system components.

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Content Control Software

Sandstorm – self-hostable web productivity suite

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Web Apps

Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It’s implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager.

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Log Analyzers

7 Best Free and Open Source Console Log File Analyzers

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software

Almost everything that happens on a Linux system is logged in some way. We feature the finest open source console-based log file analyzers.

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Chameleon Ultra GUI – frontend for the Chameleon Ultra/Chameleon Lite

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Chameleon Ultra GUI is a GUI for the Chameleon Ultra/Chameleon Lite written in Flutter for cross platform operation.

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Machine Learning

KoboldCpp – AI text-generation software

September 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

KoboldCpp is an easy-to-use AI text-generation software for GGML and GGUF models, inspired by the original KoboldAI.

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