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Chess

Ghost – xboard compatible chess engine

July 4, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Ghost is an xboard compatible chess engine. It offers multi-core support, singular Extensions, and more.

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moserial – serial terminal for GNOME desktop

July 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

moserial is a clean, friendly GTK-based serial terminal for the gnome desktop. It’s written in the Vala language.

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Network Security

hashdir – checksum directories and files

July 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

hashdir aims to be the easiest way to hash a file/directory. This is useful when transferring files, archiving data, or detecting duplicates.

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OrangePi SBC - RISC-V

Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: orangepi-config

July 4, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

My RV2 board is running Ubuntu 24.04. Included is a configuration tool called orangepi-config. Let’s see what it offers.

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VoIP

GOnnect – easy to use VoIP client

July 4, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

GOnnect is an opinionated, simple, easy to use VoIP client, designed for Flatpak based installations.

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Electronic circuit

5 Best Free and Open Source Backend Electronic Circuit Simulators

July 4, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Electronic circuit simulation uses mathematical models to replicate the behavior of an actual electronic device or circuit.

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fstl-e – fast stl viewer

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

fstl-e is a fast, easy to use stl file viewer. It is a fork of fstl with some fancy enhancements.

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Fonts

5 Best Free and Open Source Font Managers

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Need an efficient way to manage your fonts? Step forward a dedicated font manager utility.

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SerialTool – Serial-Port/TCP/UDP debugging tool

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SerialTool is a serial/network debugging tool. It supports serial debugging assistant, terminal, waveform display and file transfer.

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Sound Systems

Soundux is a cross-platform soundboard

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Soundux is a universal soundboard that uses PulseAudio modules or PipeWire linking.

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Hash Calculator – calculates around 50 cryptographic hashes of strings and files

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Hash Calculator is a console tool that can calculate about 50 cryptographic hashes of strings and files.

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Luckfox 15.6″ Portable Monitor Review

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

This is a review of the Luckfox 15.6″ Portable Monitor. It’s an IPS screen with 1920×1080 resolution, 100% sRGB, and supports HDR.

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Fonts

Deepin Font Manager

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Deepin Font Manager is a tool to install and uninstall font easily, supports batch installation, font information recognition, etc

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DevOps

iaito – official graphical interface for radare2

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

iaito is the official graphical interface for radare2, a libre reverse engineering framework.

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ddogreen – smart power management

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

ddogreen is a simple service that automatically saves energy by switching your Linux laptop between high-performance and power-saving modes.

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Fonts

fnt – apt for fonts

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fnt is a tool to download and install fonts. It helps you to download vector fonts from Debian side, and Google Web Fonts.

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Game Tools

ProtonPlus – modern compatibility tools manager

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

ProtonPlus lets you install and manage Wine/Proton based compatibility tools with a graphical user interface.

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Banana Pi BPI-F3

Banana Pi BPI-F3 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article in the series, I look at the power consumption of the Banana Pi BPI-F3 and compare it to some other computers.

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DNA

CutePeaks – cross platform Sanger Trace file viewer

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

CutePeaks is a user-friendly cross platform Sanger Trace file viewer using the framework Qt5. It’s written in C++.

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Ten Forward – control a NAT-PMP gateway

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Ten Forward allows you to request port forwarding to your gateway.

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