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Category: Internet

8 Best Free and Open Source SSH Servers

November 22, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

SSH or Secure Shell is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network

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WiFi

Gazelle – minimal NetworkManager TUI

November 22, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Gazelle is a minimal NetworkManager TUI for Linux with complete 802.1X enterprise WiFi support.

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Network

netcheck – checks network connectivity

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

netcheck is designed to be run periodically, saving results to files from which netcheck-plot can be used to create plots.

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WiFi

connex – modern Wi-Fi manager

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Internet

connex is a modern Wi-Fi manager designed for Hyprland and Arch Linux, built with GTK3 and NetworkManager.

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Email

6 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based Email Clients

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Email clients offer a variety of features. Many email clients offer a slew of features, some stick with just the basics.

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VoIP

4 Best Free and Open Source Matrix Servers

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication over IP. We pick the finest Matrix servers.

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File Managers

Sendworm – send files securely

November 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Sendworm is software for sending files quickly and securely using the magic-wormhole protocol, which makes it compatible with other tools.

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LAN

6 Useful Free and Open Source Wake-on-LAN Tools

November 14, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Wake-on-LAN is an ethernet networking standard that lets a computer to be turned on or awakened from a low-power state by a network message.

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Wi-Fi

iwinfo – provides wifi information about capabilities and network(s)

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

iwinfo shows information about existing wireless connections along with the result of an optional scan for wireless devices.

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Groupware

Halloy – IRC client

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Halloy is an IRC client written in the Rust language, with the Iced GUI library.

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Chat

Grumpy – advanced IRC client

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Grumpy is billed as a very advanced IRC client. It aims to take the best out of every major IRC client and leave out the bad.

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FTP Client

lssh – list-based ssh, scp, sftp client

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

This CLI utility can read a prepared list in advance and connect ssh/scp/sftp the selected host.

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Groupware

ii – minimalist FIFO and filesystem-based IRC client

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ii creates an irc directory tree with server, channel and nick name directories.

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Email

Cypht – webmail aggregator

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

Cypht is like a news reader, but for E-mail. Cypht does not replace your existing accounts – it combines them into one.

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VoIP

Calls – make phone and SIP calls

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Calls is a simple, elegant phone dialer and call handler for GNOME.

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Chat

Xaric – IRC client

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Xaric is a UNIX irc client similar to (and forked from) BitchX and ircII.

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Network

Meshtastic – decentralized mesh networking ecosystem

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Meshtastic is a project that lets you use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communicator for areas without reliable cellular service.

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Remote Display

wolfSSH – small, fast, portable SSH implementation

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

wolfSSH is a small, fast, portable SSH implementation, including support for SCP and SFTP.

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Groupware

Swirc – console based ICB and IRC client

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Swirc is a BSD licensed, console based and lightweight ICB and IRC client written in C/C++, whose goals are to be portable and secure.

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Remote Display

Dropbear – lightweight SSH server

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Dropbear is a smallish SSH server and client that’s written in the C language.

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