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osgrep – natural-language search that works like grep

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

osgrep is a tool for natural-language search that works like grep. Fast, local, and built for coding agents.

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Monitor System

Xosview2 – X11 system monitor

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI

Xosview2 is a lightweight program that gathers information from your operating system and displays it in graphical form.

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Keyboard

CrossMacro – modern mouse macro recording and playback

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

CrossMacro is a modern mouse macro recording and playback application for Linux Wayland compositors.

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Compression

rapidgzip – parallelized decompression of gzip files

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rapidgzip can be used for parallel decompression of almost any gzip file.

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YouTube

ytsurf – YouTube in your terminal

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

ytsurf lets you watch YouTube in your terminal. Clean and distraction-free.

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Data Science

binjr – time series browser

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

binjr is a time series browser; it renders time series data produced by other applications as dynamically editable representations

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SQL

DoltgreSQL – Postgres-compatible version of Dolt

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms Database

DoltgreSQL, or Doltgres for short, is a Postgres-compatible version of Dolt.

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File Managers

e2ecp – transfer files

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

e2ecp lets you transfer files between machines through the web, through a CLI, or both.

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Linux

Kerminal – modern terminal emulator and SSH manager

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Kerminal is a graphical SSH manager and terminal application with saved hosts, tabs, file transfer, tunnelling, and connection tools.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: November 2025 Updates

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

November 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Keyboard

wl-kbptr – move the mouse pointer with the keyboard

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wl-kbptr — short for Wayland Keyboard Pointer — is a utility to help move the mouse pointer with the keyboard.

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USB

CapacityTester – checks for fake USB flash drives

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

CapacityTester is a tool to test your new USB flash drive to find out if its full capacity can be used or if it’s fake.

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rong – Material You and Base16 colour generator

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

rong generates Material You and Base16 colour schemes from images and video, then applies them through configurable templates.

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Natural Language Processing

text – R-package for analyzing natural language with transformers-based large language models

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

text is an R package for analyzing natural language with transformers-based large language models.

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YAPF – Python formatter based on clang-format

December 1, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

The ultimate goal is that the code YAPF produces is as good as the code that a programmer would write if they were following the style guide.

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JBang – write and run Java scripts

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

JBang makes it easy to write and run Java scripts without traditional project setup.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

facsimile – terminal text editor

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

facsimile is a terminal text editor written in Fortran. It offers VSCode-style keybindings.

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Stopwatch

MatteriaTrack – mystical Final Fantasy-themed CLI time tracker

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

MatteriaTrack is a mystical Final Fantasy-themed CLI time tracker for power users.

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Flash OS

MajUSB Bootable Creator – USB bootable drives

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI

MajUSB Bootable Creator is a modern, cross-platform USB bootable drive creator written in Rust with a GTK4 GUI.

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Manga

venera – comic app

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

venera is a cross-platform comic reader for local and network sources with downloads, favourites, source extensions, ratings, and comments.

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