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Video-Emulators

xemu emulates the original Microsoft Xbox game console

April 9, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, GUI

xemu emulates the original Microsoft Xbox game console. Play your original Xbox games on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems.

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EDA

FidoCadJ is a graphical editor for electronics

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

FidoCadJ is a simple vector graphic editor which comes with a large library of symbols related to the electrical and electronic engineering.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

mise manages installations of programming language runtimes

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mise is a tool that manages installations of programming language runtimes and other tools for local development.

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Database

Druid is a column-oriented distributed data store

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Documents

Druid is a high performance, real-time analytics database that delivers sub-second queries on streaming and batch data.

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Data Science

OpenRefine – desktop program for data cleanup and transformation

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

OpenRefine is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another

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20 Best Free and Open Source Shells

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

The shell is a program that takes commands from the keyboard and gives them to the operating system to perform. We recommend the finest free and open source shells.

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EDA

Ringdove is an EDA suite of multiple software components

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

Ringdove is an Electronic Design Automation suite that offers a schematics editor, a PCB editor, and a gerber/excellon viewer.

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plotting-software

Kst is a real-time large dataset viewing and plotting tool

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

Kst is a plotting tool written in C++ that provides both a command-line interface and a graphical user interface.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

direnv unclutters your .profile

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

direnv is an extension for your shell that manages your environment.

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Selection of utilities

quickenv is an unobtrusive environment manager

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

quickenv is a replacement for direnv. It works with existing .envrcs, and as such is a drop-in replacement.

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Synthesizer

synthv1 is an old-school polyphonic synthesizer

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

synthv1 is an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with stereo fx.

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Video-Emulators

melonDS is an Nintendo DS and DSi emulator

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

melonDS aims at providing fast and accurate Nintendo DS emulation .While it is still a work in progress, it has a good set of features.

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plotting-software

AlphaPlot generates 2D and 3D plots

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

AlphaPlot is a computer program for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis. It can generate different types of 2D and 3D plots.

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Selection of utilities

Shadowenv performs a set of manipulations to the process environment

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Shadowenv provides a way to perform a set of manipulations to the process environment upon entering a directory in a shell.

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Synthesizer

Qsynth is a Qt GUI interface for FluidSynth

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

This software aims to bring a simple but effective software synthesizer front end to the Linux desktop.

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FTP

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Progress MOVEit

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

MOVEit is managed file transfer software. The software encrypts files and uses file transfer protocols such as FTP(S) or SFTP to transfer data.

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Site Update – An Apology and a Brighter Future

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms Blog

We’ve spent time optimizing the site including migrating to the latest server technology. This provides enhanced performance.

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Hypervisors

8 Useful Free and Open Source Virtualization Tools

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

A type 2 hypervisor, or hosted hypervisor, interacts with the underlying host machine hardware through the host machine’s operating system.

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Video-Emulators

DuckStation is a PlayStation emulator

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, GUI

DuckStation is a simulator/emulator of the Sony PlayStation 1 console, focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability.

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CAD

Design is 2D CAD software for GNOME

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Design is a 2D computer aided design application (CAD), created to meet the needs of makers and designers, hobbyists and professionals

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