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Updo – website monitoring tool

August 25, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Updo is a command-line tool for monitoring website uptime and performance. It provides real-time metrics on website status, response time…

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LinuxLinks – The Home of Linux

August 25, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Software

Our popular series on the best free and open source Linux software, hardware, programming, Android, and much more.

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texel – Command line interface for reading spreadsheets

August 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Office

Texel is a useful CLI for quickly reading spreadsheets and copying their contents to clipboard in CSV format.

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Smartphone

Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch: Introduction to the Series

August 25, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Phone, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch. This phone sports a powerful Mediatek Dimensity 7050 with 8 cores and 8GB of RAM.

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Encrypted Files

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux CLI File Encryption Tools

August 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Security

This roundup explores the finest CLI-based file encryption tools.

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Chemistry

Cantera – chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport tool suite

August 24, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Cantera is a collection of object-oriented software tools for problems involving chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport processes.

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Gamer Utilities

Spelloff – multiplayer first-person shooter

August 24, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Spelloff is a (kinda bare-bones) multiplayer first-person shooter in the tradition of arena-shooters such as Quake.

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Ruffle – Adobe Flash Player emulator

August 24, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

Ruffle is an Adobe Flash Player emulator written in the Rust programming language.

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Image Viewers

40 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Image Viewers

August 24, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Images are part of every day internet usage. We recommend the finest free and open source graphical image viewers available for Linux.

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Selene – Tor-based p2p chat and file sharing manager

August 24, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Selene is a comprehensive peer-to-peer chat and file sharing application built on the Tor network.

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