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Image Viewers

feh – lightweight X11 image viewer and cataloguer

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms Software

feh is a lightweight X11 image viewer with configurable slideshows, thumbnail browsing, image sorting, custom actions and wallpaper tools.

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Security

OPNsense – FreeBSD-based firewall and routing software

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Software

OPNsense is an open source, easy-to-use and easy-to-build HardenedBSD based firewall and routing platform.

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Photo Management

KPhotoAlbum – image software

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

KPhotoAlbum is software for viewing and organising images. It lets you index, search, group and view images by keywords, date, locations and persons.

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Grunge paint background

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Digital Color Meter

November 3, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Digital Color Meter lets you find the color value of a color on your screen. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software October 2023 Updates

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms Software

October 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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ERP

iDempiere – Business Suite ERP/CRM/SCM

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Besides ERP, CRM and SCM functionality, iDempiere also offers financial performance analysis, integrated Point of sale (POS) solution, and an integrated web store.

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Static Site Generators

Kotao – simple static site generator

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Kotao is a simple static site generator built in Kotlin.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: eza – replacement for ls

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

eza is a modern, maintained replacement for ls, built on exa. It has some new features such as hyperlink support.

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CPU

Machine Learning in Linux: Terminal GPT – ChatGPT 3.5 with no API keys

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, Software

Terminal GPT (tgpt) is a cross-platform command-line interface (CLI) tool that allows you to use ChatGPT 3.5 in your terminal without needing API keys.

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Adobe llustrator

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Software

This series recommends free and open source Linux alternatives to products included in Adobe Creative Cloud.

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Video Conversion

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Media Encoder

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Software

Adobe Media Encoder is an encoding engine for Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Character Animator.

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Music

spectrum is a terminal-based music player

October 19, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

spectrum says its a simple and intuitive terminal-based music player for tech enthusiasts. It comes with a visualizer, equalizer, and lyrics support.

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Diff Tools

Wdiff – wordwise implementation of diff

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Software

wdiff is a front end to diff for comparing files on a word per word basis. A word is anything between whitespace.

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ONLYOFFICE v7.5

Meet ONLYOFFICE Docs v7.5: a built-in PDF editor, automatic hyphenation, Morph transitions and more

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms Office, Software

The newest version of the open-source office suite developed by the ONLYOFFICE team is available.

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Network

OpenLDAP – mature LDAP directory services

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Software

OpenLDAP is a mature LDAP implementation offering slapd, lloadd, LMDB-backed storage, replication, overlays and comprehensive client tools.

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Latest News

goread is a terminal-based RSS/Atom feed reader

October 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Reviews, Software

goread is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the terminal. It’s written in Go.

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Manage creative assets

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Bridge

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Adobe Bridge is a creative asset manager that lets you preview, organise, edit and publish multiple creative assets quickly and easily.

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Files

Xplorer is a modern file explorer written in TypeScript

October 4, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Xplorer is a modern take on the navigational file manager. It’s free and open source software written in TypeScript and Rust.

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software September 2023 Updates

October 1, 2023 Steve Emms Software

September 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Painting tools

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Fresco

September 29, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Adobe Fresco is a vector and raster drawing and painting app. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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