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Karaoke

Karapulse – karaoke player

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Karapulse is a Linux karaoke player supporting CDG/MP3 as well as video files.

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Reference Managers

bibman – CLI and TUI bibliography manager

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, GUI

bibman manages bibliography entries and attached documents as individual files, with a terminal interface and Pandoc-based format support.

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sshtool – simple interactive SSH session manager

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

sshtool is a simple interactive SSH session manager with encrypted configuration storage using GPG.

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Linux Distributions

Alien-OS – Debian-based Linux distribution

October 30, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

Alien-OS is a German Linux distribution based on Debian. The distro uses the Regolith Desktop Environment

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Machine Learning in Linux

Shimmy – lightweight OpenAI API server

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Shimmy is a 4.8MB single-binary that provides 100% OpenAI-compatible endpoints for GGUF models.

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Linux Distributions

d77void – respin of Void Linux with window managers

October 29, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

d77void is a respin of Void Linux, created to demonstrate the capabilities of Void’s tools, such as void-mklive and void-packages.

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Selection of utilities

mtr085 – enhanced terminal network route analyser

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mtr085 extends mtr with Unicode latency histograms, internationalised domain names, translations and additional network address information.

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Linux Distributions

Arkane Linux – immutable, atomic Arch-based distribution

October 29, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

Arkane Linux is an opinionated, immutable, atomic Arch-based distribution that aims to provide a GNOME-centered experience

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Reference Managers

Xapers – personal journal article indexing and management

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, TUI

Xapers indexes academic PDFs and bibliographic metadata for full-text searching, tagging, document retrieval, and BibTeX export.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: Dual Booting Bluetooth Issues

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Having an issue with Bluetooth when dual booting? I look at an easy fix for the Minisforum AI X1 Pro mini PC.

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SSH Manager TUI – terminal-based SSH connection manager

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

SSH Manager TUI is a terminal-based SSH connection manager with a modern color interface, designed to simplify managing multiple SSH profiles.

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zomodoro – simple pomodoro

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

zomodoro is a simple pomodoro made with Qt.

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Reference Managers

BibMan – keyboard-driven TUI bibliography manager

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms Education, TUI

BibMan is a keyboard-driven terminal bibliography manager with BibTeX editing, paper collections, tagging, PDF access, and notes.

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Video-Emulators

Gamepad Mirror – visualize gamepad inputs

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Gamepad Mirror is a simple application to visualize a gamepad’s input. It’s written in JavaScript.

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Smartphone

Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Music Recognition

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, Ubuntu Touch

Music Recognition is a free and open source application for Ubuntu Touch that that provides a similar function to Shazam.

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Selection of utilities

mtr-gtk – graphical network route diagnostics

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

mtr-gtk provides a graphical interface for continuous route tracing, hop-level packet-loss measurements and network latency statistics.

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Speech

Epicenter – speech recognition tool

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Press shortcut → speak → get text. Desktop transcription that cuts out the middleman.

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luha – simple file checksum tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

luha is a simple file checksum command-line interface tool.

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PDF

npdfr – command-line PDF reader

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

npdfr is an ncurses-based PDF reader for Linux, designed for fast document searching, keyboard navigation and viewing multiple PDF files.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

lunas – syncing cli tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lunas is a syncing cli tool that can handle more than two directories locally and remotely.

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