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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

TReX – terminal app for RegEx visualization

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

TReX is a terminal-based tool for writing, visualizing, and testing regular expressions.

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Office

4 Best Free and Open Source Office Suites

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms Office, Roundup

An office suite is a collection of productivity software usually containing a word processor, spreadsheet and a presentation program.

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Server

RADIUSdesk – RADIUS management platform

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

RADIUSdesk is a powerful and user-friendly RADIUS management platform to simplify the admin of network authentication and accounting.

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Composing Music

12 Excellent Free and Open Source Scorewriters – Compose, arrange, print, and publish music

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A scorewriter is software used with a computer for creating, editing and printing sheet music. We recommend free and open source software.

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Configuring music

Lichen – multi-headphone audio router for Linux

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Lichen lets you route audio to multiple headphones simultaneously and mix multiple microphones into a single virtual input.

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Digital Audio Workstations

Helio – music sequencer

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Helio aims to be a modern music creation software, featuring linear-based/pattern-based sequencer with clean UI

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Benchmarking the BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI Mini PC

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The BOSGAME M6 is very powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor. I put it through various benchmark tests.

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Albania

mcat – extended cat command

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Utilities

mcat is a terminal image, video and Markdown viewer. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Circuit board

rustffetch – neofetch-like information manager

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

rustffetch is a simple, fast and flexible neofetch-like information manager.

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Lightning CSS – parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier

December 15, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Lightning CSS is an extremely fast CSS parser, transformer, and minifier written in Rust. Use it with Parcel, as a standalone library or CLI

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PostCSS – transform styles with JavaScript plugins

December 15, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

PostCSS is a tool for transforming styles with JS plugins.

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Stylecow – modern CSS to all browsers

December 14, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Stylecow is a Node library to fix your CSS code and make it compatible with all browsers.

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Screen Capture

lqth – screenshot utility

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lqth is a simple but fast screenshot utility inspired by xscreenshot and follows the suckless philosophy. It supports X only (no Wayland support).

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Dire Wolf – AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Other

Dire Wolf is a software “soundcard” AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder. It can be used stand-alone to observe APRS traffic, and more.

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Book

5 Best Free and Open Source CardDAV Servers

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

CardDAV (“Card Distributed Authoring and Versioning”) is a standardized address book client/server protocol.

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Documentation

mping – simple multicast ping

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mping aspires to be an easy to use and script friendly program with support for both IPv4 and IPv6.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: rm

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to rm, a command that removes files or directories.

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Search

11 Best Free and Open Source Search Engines for Big Data

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup

Big Data is an all-inclusive term that refers to data sets so large and complex that they need to be processed by specially designed hardware and software tools.

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Database

sling – slings from a data source to a data target

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database

Sling offers an easy solution to create and maintain small to medium volume data pipelines using the Extract & Load (EL) approach.

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Search

Vespa – AI search platform

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Vespa is an AI Search Platform for developing and operating large-scale applications that combine big data, vector search, machine-learned ranking, and real-time inference.

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