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7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Crafting Tools

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms Other, Roundup

Handicraft is a term that describes many different types of work where practical and decorative objects are made by hand or by using only simple tools. Depending on your location, the phrase ‘arts and crafts’ may be more commonly used.

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Mind Mapping

markmap – build mindmaps with plain text

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

markmap lets you visualize your Markdown as mindmaps. It parses Markdown content and extracts its intrinsic hierarchical structure

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Mailing List Managers

12 Best Free and Open Source Mailing List Managers

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

We recommend the best FOSS mailing list tools.

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OrangePi SBC - RISC-V

Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Installing to the eMMC

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article I document transferring my Ubuntu distribution from the microSD card to the eMMC. It makes the distro much snappier on the RV2.

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Selection of utilities

Dotfiles Installer – install dotfiles with the minimum of fuss

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Take control of your dotfiles configurations with Dotfiles Installer, designed to make dotfile management seamless.

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WhatSie – WhatsApp web client

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

WhatSie is billed as a feature rich WhatsApp web client based on Qt WebEngine for Linux Desktop.

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Inventory Management

InvenTree – inventory management system

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

InvenTree is an inventory management system which provides intuitive parts management and stock control.

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CAD Software

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk Fusion

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Autodesk Fusion is a CAD, CAM, and PCB design software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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opencu – minimalistic serial terminal emulator

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

opencu is serial terminal emulator. It’s a port of OpenBSD’s serial terminal emulator cu to Linux.

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Education

Kana – learn Japanese characters

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Kana helps you hone your Japanese skills by matching romanized characters to their correct hiragana and katakana counterparts.

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