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Category: Internet

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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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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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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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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Chat

rirc – terminal-based IRC client

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

rirc is a minimalistic IRC client written in the C programming language.

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hii – file-based IRC client

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

hii is a file-based IRC client inspired by ii. Backwards compatibility with ii wasn’t a goal.

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Chat

insomnia – frontend for the hii IRC client

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

insomnia is a collection of small programs and scripts connected using tmux to create a simple irssi-like text-based user interface for hii.

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13 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based SSH Frontends

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, TUI

This roundup focuses on terminal-based apps that help you manage and create SSH connections.

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Groupware

kirc – tiny IRC client

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

kirc is an extremely fast and simple IRC client designed with portability in mind.

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Groupware

Circada – IRC client

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Circada is a console-based IRC client that comes with two modes, normal chat mode and the navigation mode.

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System administration

15 Useful Free and Open Source DNS Clients

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

DNS is one of these things many take for granted that is critical to using the internet. Without DNS, the internet breaks.

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SSHM – transforms how you manage and connect to SSH hosts

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

SSHM is a command-line tool that transforms how you manage and connect to your SSH hosts.

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Email

17 Best Free and Open Source Email Servers

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Here’s our verdict on free and open source email servers. We recommend Exim, OpenSMTPD, mox, DBMail, WildDuck, and Stalwart.

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sshtool – simple interactive SSH session manager

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

sshtool is a simple interactive SSH session manager with encrypted configuration storage using GPG.

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SSH Manager TUI – terminal-based SSH connection manager

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

SSH Manager TUI is a terminal-based SSH connection manager with a modern color interface, designed to simplify managing multiple SSH profiles.

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FTP

3 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical FTP Clients

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Utilities

FTP is one of many different file transfer protocols that are used. Here’s our verdict of the best graphical FTP clients.

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Content Control Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Content Control Software

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

Content control software, also commonly known as web filtering software, is software which is designed and optimised to determine what content can be viewed by the user. This software is particularly relevant to information supplied by a web browser.

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Remote Display

16 Best Free and Open Source Remote Desktop Clients

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

This article examines the best free and open source Linux remote desktop clients.

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