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Reference Managers

Citations – graphical BibTeX bibliography manager

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Citations is a streamlined GNOME bibliography editor for working with BibTeX files and managing research references in a simple interface.

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Chat

rirc – lightweight terminal IRC client

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

rirc is a compact IRC client for terminals with multiple server connections, TLS encryption, SASL authentication and IRCv3 support.

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SSD

dut – disk usage calculator

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

By default, dut will output a tree of the biggest directories it finds under your current directory.

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Database

vkCommander – GUI application for monitoring and analyzing Valkey databases

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms Database, GUI

vkCommander is a Desktop Manager for Valkey databases with an intuitive interface for connecting to Valkey instances.

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1TB microSD card

TEAMGROUP ULTRA Micro SDXC A2 V30 Memory Card 1TB Review

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

For this review I’m evaluating the TEAMGROUP ULTRA Micro SDXC A2 V30 Memory Card 1TB. Yes, a whopping 1TB card.

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SSD

Bonsai – TUI remake of GNOME Baobab

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Bonsai is a terminal user interface (TUI) remake of the GNOME Baobab disk usage analyzer.

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Task Manager

taskfinder – extracts and displays tasks from plain text files

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Keep your project-related tasks where they belong. taskfinder, a terminal user interface (TUI), will extract and display them.

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Linux Distributions

Calam Arch Installer – Arch-based Linux distribution

November 5, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

Calam Arch Installer is an Arch-based Linux distribution designed to help install an Arch Linux system. It’s also a full-featured live Linux system.

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Laser cutting

Rayforge – control laser cutters and engravers

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Rayforge is a modern laser control application with 2D design tools, simulation, camera support and broad hardware compatibility.

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Task Manager

TowDow – tasks and process management

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

TowDow is a task and process manager that helps individuals and teams plan work, track progress, and collaborate on structured flows.

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File Managers

jafff – just another f* fast file manager

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

jafff is just another fast file manager. It’s inspired by the now abandoned fff file manager.

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Game Tools

Ball2Box – casual ball game

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Ball2Box is a causal ball game. Swipe to shoot the ball into the box in over 100 levels with only one finger.

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Groupware

hii – lightweight filesystem-based IRC client

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

hii is a file-based IRC client inspired by ii, with IRCv3 monitoring, TLS authentication, IPv6 and recording of nickname mentions.

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Linux Distributions

NebiOS – Ubuntu-based Linux distribution

November 4, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

NebiOS is an Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution with a custom Wayland compositor called NebiDE (based on Wayfire).

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Machine Learning in Linux

Machine Learning in Linux: Dia – 1.6B parameter text to speech model

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific

Dia is a text to speech model capable of generating ultra-realistic dialogue in a single pass.

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Network

pingstat – multi-server ping statistics and logging

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pingstat logs connectivity measurements for multiple servers in SQLite databases, providing historical latency and packet-loss statistics.

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myping – monitor multiple network hosts simultaneously

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

myping monitors the reachability of several hosts simultaneously, showing connection failures and successes in a compact terminal display.

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System Administration

asroot – simpler alternative to sudo and doas

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asroot is a command-line utility to run a process as the root user. It’s written in the C language

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Administrators in action

sudo-rs – memory safe implementation of sudo and su

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sudo-rs is a safety oriented and memory safe implementation of sudo and su written in Rust. It’s an independent implementation.

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Linux Distributions

ZimaOS – simplified, focused and Open NAS operating system

November 4, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

ZimaOS is a full personal cloud OS developed by the team based on CasaOS (which despite its name is not an operating system).

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