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Author: Steve Emms

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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SerialTest – test tool for serial port, Bluetooth, TCP and UDP

July 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SerialTest is a cross-platform test tool for serial port, Bluetooth, TCP and UDP.

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Manga

Kindle Comic Converter – transform images to ebooks

July 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

KCC (a.k.a. Kindle Comic Converter) is a comic and manga converter for ebook readers.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: June 2025 Updates

July 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

June 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Education

Japachar – learn Japanese characters

July 1, 2025 Steve Emms Education

Japachar is an application helps you to learn Japanese characters using a gradual learning algorithm which makes you test-like questions.

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TEAMGROUP PD20 Mini External SSD

TEAMGROUP PD20 Mini External SSD Review

July 1, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

I’m testing the 2TB PD20 Mini External SSD which provides plenty of capacity for backing up a computer or holding a good chunk of data.

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Pulp – skim excessive feeds

July 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Pulp provides a workflow focused on reading through an excessive number of RSS feeds

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Music image

mpvc – mpc-like CLI tool for mpv

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mpvc is a music player in POSIX-sh interfacing mpv from the shell and extras/goodies.

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Speech

sherpa-onnx is speech-to-text and text-to-speech software

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

sherpa-onnx is software for Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speaker diarization, and VAD using next-gen Kaldi with onnxruntime

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Milky Way

19 Best Free and Open Source Linux Astronomy Apps

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

This article focuses on selecting the best free astronomy software available for Linux.

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Millennium – low-code modding framework

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Millennium is a low-code modding framework to create, manage and use themes/plugins for the desktop Steam Client.

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OrangePi SBC - RISC-V

Orange Pi R2S Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is a series of articles looking at the Orange Pi R2S, the latest addition to the range of single board computers from Orange Pi.

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Music

16 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Music Players

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Roundup

All music libraries are different, and the right open source music player can make a world of difference – especially if you’ve a large collection. We recommend the best terminal-based music players.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

vmstat – reports virtual memory statistics

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, traps, disks and cpu activity.

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Bomb

cgames – collection of three ncurses games

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, TUI

The programs in this distribution are re-implementations of games for the Linux console.

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