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Category: Internet

tcpulse – load generator

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

tcpulse is a concurrent TCP/UDP load generator with fine-grained, flow-level control over connection establishment and data transfer.

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Kafka – distributed event streaming platform

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration.

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XMPP

7 Best Free and Open Source Console Based XMPP Clients

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Here’s our verdict on the best console-based XMPP clients. They are free and open source goodness.

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AWSM – AWS manager

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

AWSM is billed as a powerful CLI tool to simplify working with AWS profiles, credentials, and sessions.

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Frolic – modified F-Chat client

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Frolic is an F-Chat client developed for simplicity and stability. It’s based on the feature set of the legacy client Rising

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XMPP

6 Best Free and Open Source XMPP Servers

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

XMPP (also known as Jabber) is an open and free alternative to commercial messaging and chat providers. We select the best servers.

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trzsz-ssh – drop-in replacement for openssh

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

trzsz-ssh ( tssh ) is an ssh client designed as a drop-in replacement for the openssh client.

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Flying robot

Surge – terminal-based download manager

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Surge is a terminal (TUI) download manager. Designed for power users who prefer a keyboard-driven workflow.

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Cloud storage

kubefwd – port forward pods within a Kubernetes namespace

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

kubefwd is a command-line utility that bulk port forwards Kubernetes services to your local workstation.

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Best Free IRC

senpai – modern terminal IRC client

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

senpai is an IRC client that works best with bouncers.

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Chihaya – BitTorrent tracker

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Chihaya is built for developers looking to integrate BitTorrent into a preexisting production environment.

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XMPP

3 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based XMPP Clients

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

XMPP (also known as Jabber) is an open and free alternative to commercial messaging and chat providers. Web-based clients are featured.

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Intrusion Prevention - SSH

6 Best Free and Open Source Tools for SSH Intrusion Prevention

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

This article recommends open source software that employ different techniques to make it harder for a server running SSH to be compromised.

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Intrusion Prevention - SSH

ConfigServer Security & Firewall – front-end to iptables or nftables

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Security

ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF) is a Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall and Login/Intrusion Detection and Security application.

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VoIP

5 Best Free and Open Source Tox Clients

January 22, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup

Tox is a peer-to-peer instant-messaging and video-calling protocol that offers end-to-end encryption. We recommend the finest Tox clients.

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Static Site Generators

6 Best Free and Open Source Haskell Static Site Generators

January 21, 2026 Eilidih Parris Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

We have compiled a list of 5 best Haskell static site generators. All of these tools are released under a freely distributable license.

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Network

Realm – simple relay server

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Realm is a simple, high performance relay server.

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ETR – ECMP traceroute

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ETR is a MTR-like tool for discovering and analyzing ECMP (Equal-Cost Multi-Path) network routes.

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Internet Radio

Transistor – GUI internet radio player

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Reviews

Transistor is a GUI internet radio player for Linux written in C++. It’s impressive to say the least!

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Flying robot

aria2tui – download manager

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

aria2TUI is a download management tool. It acts as a TUI client for the aria2c download utility.

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