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Linux Distributions

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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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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Command Schedulers

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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Podcast

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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Selection of utilities

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 provides a terminal PulseAudio mixer with per-channel levels, device profiles, mute controls and configurable keyboard navigation.

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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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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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Fractals

Fractorium – Qt-based fractal flame editor and animator

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Fractorium is a Qt fractal flame editor and animator with CPU and OpenCL rendering, flame editing, animation and Linux support.

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Chat

Grumpy – advanced IRC client

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Grumpy is billed as a very advanced IRC client. It aims to take the best out of every major IRC client and leave out the bad.

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Astrology

Asteria – astrological chart calculator and analyzer

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Asteria is a Qt astrology application for Linux with natal and relationship charts, transits, returns, eclipses and flexible export.

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Audio Analyzers

Cable – tool to dynamically modify Pipewire and Wireplumber settings

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Cable is a PyQT GUI application to dynamically modify Pipewire and Wireplumber settings at runtime.

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FTP Client

lssh – terminal-native remote access suite

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

lssh is a terminal-native remote access suite with SSH host selection, parallel commands, file transfer, forwarding and provider support.

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