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gsh – POSIX-compatible, Generative Shell

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

gsh is a modern, POSIX-compatible, generative shell that’s in an early stage of development.

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SoS – data collection tool

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

SoS is an extensible, portable, support data collection tool primarily aimed at Linux distributions and other UNIX-like operating systems.

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Side – Linux distribution

January 2, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

Side is an independently-developed lightweight Linux distribution featuring the PiSi package manager.

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cpx – CLI for C++ that unifies the fragmented C++ ecosystem

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

cpx provides a cohesive, Cargo-like experience for managing projects, dependencies, and builds, regardless of your underlying build system.

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Laboratory

Increasing Lab Efficiency with an Open Source LIMS

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is a software-based laboratory and information management system that provides streamlined workflow automation and management.

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process

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: stow

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem.

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Text Editor

16 Best Free and Open Source Vim-Like Text Editors

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

Text editors remain a controversial area. Here are our recommended Vim-like text editors. They are all released under an open source license.

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Best Free IRC

zuse – terminal IRC client

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

ZUSE is a sleek, minimal IRC client for your terminal. Built with Go and powered by the elegant Bubble Tea framework.

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Psalm – static analysis tool

January 2, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming

Psalm is a static analysis tool that attempts to dig into your program and find as many type-related bugs as possible.

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Coding

7 Best Free and Open Source PHP Linter Tools

January 2, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

This article picks some useful tools to help you fix PHP code.

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SSH

OpenSSH GUI – graphical frontend

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

OpenSSH GUI is a frontend for managing your SSH Keys – on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Git Clients

Garden – command runner and multi-repo Git configuration tool

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Garden helps you create development workflows over collections of self-contained, loosely-coupled and inter-dependent Git worktrees.

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Game Tools

Robocode – educational programming game

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Robocode is an engaging and educational programming game that allows you to code, test, and improve robot battle tanks.

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Metetch – system information display utility

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Metetch is a fast system information tool with a minimal aesthetic inspired by KDE Plasma and Wayland.

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FTP Client

FTPGrab – grah files from FTP or SFTP servers

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

FTPGrab is a CLI application written in Go and delivered as a single executable (and a Docker image) to grab your files from a remote FTP or SFTP server to your NAS, server or computer. With Go, this can be

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Find Duplicates

mmry – local-first memory system for humans and AI agents

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

mmry is a local-first memory system. Store any text and find it again with multiple search strategies, pipe it anywhere with JSON.

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Clipboard

nocb – nearly optimal clipboard manager

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nocb describes itself as a nearly optimal clipboard manager – fast, compressed, hash-based storage.

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Database

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Document-Oriented Databases

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms Database, Documents, Office, Roundup

We pick databases which can offer better performance in your application as well as quicker development time.

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Backup software

mackup – keeps application settings in sync

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mackup is a tool for backup and keeping your application settings in sync.

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BOSGAME M6

BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux – BIOS

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the BOSGAME M6 Plus.

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