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KLayout is a GDS and OASIS file viewer and editor

April 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

KLayout is a GDS and OASIS file viewer and editor. This is a mask layout viewer and editor for the chip design engineer.

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Satellite Tool

OrbVis is a Realtime Satellite Orbit Visualizer

April 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

OrbVis is a tool used to view and propagate the full CelesTrak satellite catalog in realtime.

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Gwyddion – SPM data visualization and analysis

April 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Gwyddion is a modular program for SPM (scanning probe microscopy) data visualization and analysis.

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Painting tools

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel PHOTO-PAINT

April 22, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Corel PHOTO-PAINT is a raster graphics editor, or photo editing software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

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PonyProg is a serial device programmer

April 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

PonyProg is a serial device programmer software with a user friendly GUI (Qt-based) framework.

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Satellite Tool

Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application

April 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. It can track a large number of satellites

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Hard disk image

K4DirStat – small utility program

April 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

K4DirStat is a small open source utility that shows disk usage for directory trees. It displays the disk space used up by a directory tree.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

ShellCheck is a shell script static analysis tool

April 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ShellCheck is a tool that gives warnings and suggestions for bash/sh shell scripts. It’s written in Haskell.

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Television

Media Player Classic Qute Theater is a clone of Media Player Classic

April 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Media Player Classic Qute Theater uses libmpv’s powerful media presentation framework to play video instead of DirectShow.

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Satellite Tool

tracker offers real-time satellite tracks and orbit prediction

April 21, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

tracker is a terminal-based real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. It’s written in Rust.

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Time tracking

KTeaTime is a timer for steeping tea

April 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

KTeaTime is a handy timer for steeping tea. Steeping tea involves infusing tea leaves in hot water to extract flavor and other desirable compounds.

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SSD

crossdirstat is a file and directory statistics tool

April 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

crossdirstat is a cross-platform file and directory statistics written using Electron.

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PDF

plakativ stretches PDF or raster image across multiple pages

April 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Graphics, GUI

plakativ is software to stretch a PDF document or raster image across multiple pages. It’s written in Python.

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Data Science Notebooks

Luigi builds complex pipelines of batch jobs

April 20, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Luigi is a Python package that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs.

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Backup software

8 Best Free and Open Source Restic Wrappers

April 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software

restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. We recommend the best free and open source wrapper tools for restic.

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Remote Desktop - Android

Awake on Lan remotely wakes up computers

April 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Awake on LAN is a simple application that allows you to wake up computers remotely using Wake-on-LAN packets.

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Video-Emulators

Azahar is a Nintendo 3DS emulator based on Citra

April 20, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Azahar is a Nintendo 3DS emulator based on Citra. This is free and open source software written in C++

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Screen Capture

9 Best Free Linux Screen Capture GUI Tools

April 20, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

We recommend the best free and open source GUI software for taking screenshots.

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Password Managers

passage – age-backed password manager

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

passage is a fork of password-store that uses age as a backend instead of GnuPG.

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Small Image Tools

imagineer offers image processing and conversion

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

sic (sic image cli) is a command-line too to convert images and perform image operations.

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