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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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System

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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Shell prompt

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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Guitar

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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Cloud storage

Peergos – secure file storage, social network and application protocol

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Peergos offers a secure messenger, an encrypted email client and bridge, and a private and secure social network.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Benchmarking the Minisforum AI X1 Pro

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The Minisforum AI X1 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with integrated Radeon 890M.

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Bazaar – app store for GNOME

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Bazaar is a new app store for GNOME with a focus on discovering and installing applications and add-ons from Flatpak remotes, particularly Flathub. It emphasizes supporting the developers who make the Linux desktop possible. Bazaar features a “curated” tab that

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Git Clients

33 Useful Free and Open Source Git Tools

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Roundup, Utilities

Git is an open source distributed version control system which was originally designed by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.

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Gaphor – simple UML and SysML modeling tool

September 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Gaphor is a UML, SysML, RAAML, and C4 modeling application. It is designed to be easy to use, while still being powerful.

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