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Streaming Music

Blarock – simple music player

December 11, 2025 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Linux offers a huge array of open source music players. And many of them are high quality. Blarock is a new addition.

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ebook reader

Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Sturm Reader

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Reviews, Software, Ubuntu Touch

Sturm Reader is an ebook reader for Linux tailored for Ubuntu Touch and portable devices.

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BOSGAME M6

BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux – Introduction to the Series

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux. It’s a very capable mini PC at a competitive price point.

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Music

TUISIC – simple TUI online music streaming software

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

TUISIC is a simple TUI online music streaming application written in C++ with vim keybindings.

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OrangePi SBC ARM

Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer running Linux: 3 Types of Cores

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

The 12-core processor has a quad-core Cortex-A720 large core, quad-core Cortex-A720 medium core, and quad-core Cortex-A520 small core.

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Minisforum UM890 Pro

Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: cTDP

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Delving into the UM890 Pro’s BIOS reveals an option not available in the other mini PC’s I’ve been writing about. The BIOS setting lets you set the AMD Configurable TDP (cTDP).

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OrangePi SBC ARM

Benchmarking the Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I put the Orange Pi 6 Plus through a series of benchmarks and compare its results to a variety of its competitors.

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Minisforum UM890 Pro

Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption

November 27, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I subject the Minisforum M890 Pro to a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.

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Minisforum UM890 Pro

Benchmarking the Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC

November 26, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The Minisforum UM890 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS processor. I put it through various benchmark tests

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Laptop serie

Benchmarking the HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop in Linux

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

I put a refurbished HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop through a series of benchmarks comparing it to other machines.

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Minisforum UM890 Pro

Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux – Introduction to the Series

November 24, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The Minisforum UM890 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen 9 Pro 8945HS processor with integrated Radeon 780M graphics.

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Music player

Nova Music – new music player for Linux

November 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Nova Music is a new music player written with the libcosmic toolkit. It’s written in Rust.

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Laptop serie

HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Specifications in detail

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

Let’s look at the specifications of the laptop in more detail. I’ll use a popular system profiler, inxi, to help delve into the laptop’s specs.

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OrangePi SBC ARM

Orange Pi 6 Plus Running Linux: Introduction to the Series

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is the first article in a new series looking at the latest piece of kit from Orange Pi. It’s the Orange Pi 6 Plus development board.

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Laptop serie

HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Introduction to the Series

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

This is a new series looking at running Linux on a refurbished HP laptop.

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Foreign Languages

Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Translate

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, Ubuntu Touch, Utilities

Translate for Ubuntu Touch is an app that offers good translations with more privacy than with Google Translate.

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Radxa Cubie A7Z

Radxa Cubie A7Z Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Radxa Cubie A7Z.

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Podcast

Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – PodCat

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, Ubuntu Touch

PodCat is a podcast player for Ubuntu Touch. It’s free and open source software.

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Linux Candy: shuffle – ASCII art with a cool shuffle effect

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

The shuffle command prints an ASCII art picture with a cool shuffle effect.

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Radxa Cubie A7Z

Radxa Cubie A7Z Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction to the Series

November 6, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

The Radxa Cubie A7Z is a tiny single-board computer designed for seamless integration into various applications.

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