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NPBackup – secure and efficient file backup solution

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Reviews, System Software

NPBackup adds a GUI, scheduling, monitoring and multi-repository management to restic’s encrypted, deduplicated backup engine.

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Lumalarm – smart alarm clock that wakes your computer from sleep

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Lumalarm is a Qt alarm clock that can suspend and wake your PC, with anti-oversleep challenges, timers, stopwatch and custom sounds.

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System administration

9 Best Free and Open Source Recursive DNS Resolvers

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Discover the best free and open source recursive DNS resolvers for secure, private and reliable domain name lookups.

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Security

Talisman – detect sensitive data before Git commits

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Talisman scans Git changesets for passwords, tokens, private keys and other sensitive data before they are committed or pushed.

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EDA

Kactus2 – graphical EDA tool based on the IP-XACT standard

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Kactus2 is a graphical EDA tool for designing SoCs, packaging reusable IP, creating hardware hierarchies, and integrating hardware and software.

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Linux Distributions

Fedora Asahi Remix – Fedora Linux for Apple Silicon Macs

September 9, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

Fedora Asahi Remix brings Fedora Linux to Apple Silicon Macs with KDE Plasma, Wayland, hardware acceleration and integrated audio support.

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Clocks

clock-rs – modern digital clock for your terminal

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, TUI

clock-rs is a configurable terminal clock with timer and stopwatch modes, flexible positioning, colours, date formatting and UTC support.

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Database

17 Useful Free and Open Source Linux Column-Oriented Databases

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms Database, Documents, Roundup

A column-oriented database is a type of database management system that stores data on disk in columns rather than rows.

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Typing

typa – minimal terminal typing speed test

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms Education, TUI

typa is a lightweight terminal typing test offering timed, word, quote, and code modes with detailed statistics and custom themes.

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Music

10 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based MPD Clients

September 9, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup, Web Apps

MPD is a powerful server-side application for playing music. Here’s our verdict on the finest web-based MPD clients.

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WiFi 7

WHAD Client – Wireless Protocol Exploration Framework

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

WHAD Client is a command-line framework for capturing, analysing, replaying and experimenting with traffic from supported wireless devices and protocols.

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Security

detect-secrets – detect and prevent secrets in source code

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

detect-secrets helps teams detect and prevent credentials from entering source code using baselines, plugins, filters and Git hooks.

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Electronic circuit

XicTools – electronic design and circuit simulation suite

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

XicTools is an electronic design suite featuring the Xic IC layout editor, WRspice circuit simulator, extraction tools, and more.

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Wi-Fi image

Fluxion – Wireless Security Auditing Tool

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms Security

Fluxion is a terminal-based security auditing tool for evaluating WPA and WPA2 network exposure through controlled captive-portal testing.

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Security

Gitleaks – detect secrets in Git repositories and files

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Gitleaks scans Git repositories, files and standard input for passwords, API keys, tokens and other hard-coded secrets in source code.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google reCAPTCHA

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Discover the best free and open source alternatives to Google reCAPTCHA for protecting websites from bots, spam and automated abuse.

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Planet Earth

5 Best Free and Open Source Earth Observation and Ocean Science Tools

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Discover the best free and open source tools for Earth observation, remote sensing, ocean science, satellite data and simulation.

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Music

hympd – simple responsive web interface for MPD

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

hympd is a lightweight responsive web interface for MPD with queue management, search, playback controls, themes and Vim-style navigation.

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Podcast

15 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Podcast Tools

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 16 high quality open source GUI podcast tools. They offer an excellent way to manage and download podcasts.

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tenki – terminal clock with animated weather effects

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity

tenki is a Rust terminal clock with animated rain, snow and meteor effects, configurable wind, colours and animation speed.

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