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Gooroom Platform – Debian-based open source operating system

November 11, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

Gooroom Platform is a Debian-based Linux distribution designed for cloud computing. It is developed in South Korea.

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Task Manager

13 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Task Managers

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup, TUI

A task manager is software which enables users to compile a list of tasks to be completed. This list is also known as a to-do list.

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Wallpaper Setter

SwayBG+ – advanced multi-monitor background manager for sway

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

SwayBG+ is a powerful, feature-rich background manager specifically designed for Sway window manager.

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ServiceMaster – powerful terminal-based tool for managing systemd units

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

ServiceMaster is a powerful terminal-based tool for managing Systemd units on Linux systems.

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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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liz-desktop – Rust-based shortcut helper

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

liz-desktop is a Rust-based shortcut helper to remember, customize and autorun shortcuts or commands. Developed via Tauri 2.0.

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Phantom Player – simple video player

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Phantom Player offers a range of practical features, making it easy to play, organize, and manage videos from your hard drive.

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Mixer

pacmixer – PulseAudio tool similar to alsamixer

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

pacmixer is an interactive controller for PulseAudio mixers and settings.

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SSD

22 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for du

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

du is a standard program used to estimate file space usage—space used under a particular directory or files on a file system. We recommend alternative commands to du.

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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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Selection of utilities

IsMyArchFree – identify licenses

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

IsMyArchFree is a simple program that analyzes pacman-installed packages’ licenses and flags them as free, permissive, …

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File Managers

sff – simple file finder

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

sff (simple file finder) is a simple, fast, and feature-rich terminal file manager inspired by nnn and guided by the suckless philosophy.

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Calendar

Calcol – wrapper to colorize cal

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Calcol is a wrapper around the cal command from util-linux that allows you to display a colorized calendar.

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Selection of utilities

folsy – folder synchronization script

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

folsy is simple shell script which performs a job similar to other (folder) synchronization tools, but with nearly no resource consumption

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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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SSD

SpaceMan – treemap disk usage analyzer

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SpaceMan is a treemap disk usage analyzer: In search of lost space (a.k.a. wata-analyzer).

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Archive Manager

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal-Based Archive Managers

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Useful terminal-based archive managers.

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Linux Distributions

MAX – Ubuntu-based Linux distribution

November 10, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

MAX (Madrid_Linux) is a live operating system based on Ubuntu. It’s created by the Council of Education of Madrid, Spain.

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Document Management Systems

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Document Management Systems

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Office, Roundup

Here’s our updated verdict.

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Fractals

Fractorium – Qt-based fractal flame editor

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Fractorium is a Qt-based fractal flame editor which uses a C++ re-write of the flam3 algorithm named Ember.

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