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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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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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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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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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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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Groupware

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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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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