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Hydra – cross-platform software KVM

August 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Hydra is a cross-platform software KVM that lets you control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse.

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moji – search, download, convert and inspect fonts

August 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

moji searches multiple font sources, ranks candidates by family and filename, and downloads the best match.

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Keyboard

Perpetua – cross-platform software KVM

August 5, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Perpetua is a cross-platform software KVM that lets you control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse.

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10 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Process Managers

August 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, TUI, Utilities

Process management software helps users launch, supervise and control long-running applications and background services.

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Batch Renamers

12 Best Free and Open Source GUI Batch Renamers

August 4, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

A batch renamer lets you renames files and folders without having to click on every single file individually. Here’s some open source goodies.

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Emojis

12 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Emoji Tools

August 3, 2026 Erik Karlsson CLI, Other, Roundup, Utilities

An emoji is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. We recommend terminal based emoji tools.

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Rink – unit-aware calculator

August 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities, Web Apps

Rink is a unit-aware calculator for unit conversion and dimensional analysis.

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Shutdown

4 Best Free and Open Source Shutdown Timers

August 2, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Linux is blessed with an abundance of useful utilities. We feature interesting shutdown timers. Open source goodness as you’d expect.

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process

Pueue – command-line task manager

August 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pueue is a command-line task manager for sequential and parallel execution of long-running shell commands.

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gob – command-line process manager

August 1, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

gob is a command-line process manager designed for developers and AI coding agents to run, monitor, and control background processes.

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SSD

diskbloom – terminal-based disk space visualizer

August 1, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

diskbloom is a terminal-based disk space visualizer that displays files and directories as a colourful, nested treemap.

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Batch Renamers

PBRenamer – graphical batch file renaming utility

July 31, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

PBRenamer is a graphical batch file renaming utility built with Python and Qt 6. It offers live previews, flexible pattern matching, and more

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Overitall – terminal UI for process and log management

July 31, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Overitall is a terminal user interface for managing multiple processes and viewing their logs from a single interactive display.

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Overmind – process manager for Procfile-based applications

July 30, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Overmind uses tmux to run multiple application processes in a single terminal while retaining access to each process individually.

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Find Duplicates

9 Best Free and Open Source Tools to Search the Filesystem

July 30, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

Desktop search is a software application which searches the contents of computer files, rather than searching the internet.

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Search

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Desktop Search Engines

July 29, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

Desktop search is a software application which searches the contents of computer files, rather than searching the internet.

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Desktop Environments

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Docks

July 28, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 12 docks that genuinely add to the desktop experience.

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Procman – terminal-based process manager

July 28, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Procman provides a unified dashboard for monitoring, controlling and interacting with multiple development processes.

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PM2 – production process manager

July 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

PM2 is a production process manager designed primarily for Node.js and Bun applications.

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process

Process Compose – process manager, scheduler and orchestrator

July 25, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Process Compose is a process manager, scheduler and orchestrator for running non-containerized applications.

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