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Author: Steve Emms

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Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Building a Program

July 14, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Options for installing software are a bit more limited with the RV2 compared with ARM-based single board computers. Let’s build a piece of open source software.

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System administration

Atomia DNS – multi tenant system

July 14, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Atomia DNS is a multi tenant system for handling large amounts of DNS data through programmatic interfaces.

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Chess

Texel is a free chess engine

July 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Texel applies many of the standard methods for computer chess programs, such as iterative deepening, negascout, aspiration windows…

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Data Science

HDF Compass – experimental viewer program for HDF5

July 14, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

HDF Compass is an experimental viewer program for HDF5 and related formats, designed to complement other more complex applications.

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Trusted-CGI – lightweight self-hosted lambda/applications/cgi/serverless-functions engine

July 13, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Trusted-CGI is a lightweight runner for lambda functions/apps in CGI like mode.

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Gaming

X Minecraft Launcher – modern Minecraft launcher

July 13, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

X Minecraft Launcher is a feature-rich Minecraft launcher to manage resources like modpacks, resource packs, mods, and shader packs.

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ttysterm is a simple serial terminal

July 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ttysterm is a minimalist terminal program like *minicom* or *cu*.

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Inventory Management

Nornir – pluggable multi-threaded framework

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Nornir is a pluggable multi-threaded framework with inventory management to help operate collections of devices.

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education

Hypatia – research tool for the Linux desktop

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Hypatia is a research tool for the Linux desktop. It’s designed to provide at-a-glance information about the topics you’re reading

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Warble

muttum – guess a word in few attempts

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

With muttum, pick a dictionary and try to find the random word.

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Task Manager

Nottodbox – organize notes, to-dos and diaries

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Nottodbox is a highly customizable WYSIWYG-like editor for notes, to-dos and diaries.

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COMTool – serial debug tools

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

COMTool is a cross platform serial debug tool. It’s written in Python.

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Education

Gradebook – keep track of your grades

July 11, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Gradebook is a simple tool that helps you keep track of your grades. This way you always know how you are doing in your courses.

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Video Editors

GoZen – minimalistic video editor

July 11, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

GoZen is a lightweight, stable, minimalistic, and performant video editor with simplicity in mind.

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Files

Lorem – generate placeholder text

July 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Lorem is a simple app to generate the well-known Lorem Ipsum placeholder text.

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Digital Asset Management

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk Motion FX

July 11, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Multimedia

Autodesk Motion FX is software to create real-time video effects using your computer’s camera. It’s also a video editor.

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CuteCom – graphical serial terminal

July 11, 2025 Steve Emms Software

CuteCom is a graphical serial terminal that’s aimed mainly at hardware developers or other people who need a terminal to talk to their devices.

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HTTP

IP Lookup – find info about an IP address.

July 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

IP Lookup is a simple GUI utility to look up details such as the internet provider and geographic location for an IP address.

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dnsdock – DNS server for automatic docker container discovery

July 10, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

dnsdock is a DNS server for automatic docker container discovery.

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YouTube

Playlifin – sync YouTube playlists to Jellyfin

July 10, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

Playlifin is a tool to convert a Youtube Music playlist to a Jellyfin playlist.

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