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Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch: Linux Desktop Applications

September 8, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Phone, Reviews

Libertine is a confined sandbox where you can install deb-packaged desktop-based Ubuntu applications on the Volla Quintus.

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Twake Drive – alternative to Google Drive

September 8, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Twake Drive offers an encrypted data storage solution written in TypeScript and JavaScript.

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7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical Port Scanners

September 8, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

Here’s our verdict on the best graphical port scanners.

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Aura – package manager for Arch Linux

September 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Aura is a package manager for Arch Linux. Its original purpose was in supplementing Pacman to support the building of AUR packages

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Flowinity – image uploader and file storage solution

September 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Flowinity is billed as the next generation image hosting server written in Vue and TypeScript.

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11 Best Free and Open Source Zsh Plugin Managers

September 7, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Zsh is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting.

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Cloud storage

FileGator – powerful multi-user file manager

September 7, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Web Apps

FileGator is a self-hosted web application for managing files and folders.

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Elephant – general purpose datasource and executor

September 7, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Elephant acts as a unified backend service that aggregates data from various sources.

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Notes

Notorious – keyboard centric notes

September 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Notorious is a keyboard centric notes app made for power users.

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Zpm – Zsh plugin manager

September 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Zpm is a plugin manager for Zsh that combines the imperative and declarative approach. At first run, zpm will do complex logic and generate cache, after that will be used cache only, so it makes this framework to be very

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6 Useful Free and Open Source Linux WhatsApp Clients

September 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Roundup

WhatsApp is a popular, free messaging, social media, and voice-over-IP service that lets users send text, voice messages, and video messages

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Cloud storage

OpenCloud – self-hosted file sharing

September 6, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

OpenCloud is a powerful, cloud-native, open source solution for file management, file sharing and content collaboration

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Youp – WhatsApp wrapper

September 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Youp is a WhatsApp wrapper that makes it easier to use.

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Cloud storage

MyDrive – cloud file storage server

September 5, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

MyDrive is a cloud file storage server (similar To Google Drive). Host myDrive on your own server or trusted platform.

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Science

Webots – robot simulator

September 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Webots provides a complete development environment to model, program, and simulate robots, vehicles, and mechanical systems.

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System administration

Relax-and-Recover – Linux Disaster Recovery

September 5, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) is a setup-and-forget Linux bare metal disaster recovery solution.

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Cloud storage

Tiny File Manager – versatile web-based PHP file manager

September 5, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Web Apps

Tiny File Manager is a versatile web-based PHP file manager designed for simplicity and efficiency.

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Images

18 Best Free and Open Source Command-Line Image Compression Tools

September 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup

This article recommends the best command-line image compression tools. They are all free and open source.

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Cloud storage

OASIS – self-hosted file server

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Web Apps

OASIS is a self-hosted file server that’s written in Rust and published under the MIT License. Uses Svelte, Rocket, and Tailwind.

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Fretboard – look up guitar chords

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Fretboard lets you find guitar chords by typing their names or plotting them on an interactive guitar neck.

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