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7 Best Free and Open Source Linux MPRIS Tools

October 4, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

MPRIS is a standard D-Bus interface which aims to provide a common programmatic API for controlling media players.

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System administration

wig – simple and lightweight DNS client

October 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

wig is a simple and lightweight DNS client written in the C language.

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Unyo – anime streaming and manga reader

October 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Unyo is a desktop application (inspired from Dantotsu) where you can watch and read your favourite animes and mangas.

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Book

webdav – simple and standalone WebDAV server

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

webdav is a simple and standalone WebDAV server written in the Go programming language.

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ddclient – update dynamic DNS entries

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ddclient is a Perl client used to update dynamic DNS entries for accounts on many dynamic DNS services. It uses curl for internet access.

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InterceptSuite – network traffic interception tool

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Security

InterceptSuite is a network traffic interception tool engineered for comprehensive TLS/SSL inspection, analysis, and manipulation.

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Principia – sandbox physics game

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Principia is a physics-based sandbox building game. Build and play advanced contraptions, circuiting, minigames, robot adventures and more.

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hns – privacy-focused speech-to-text CLI utility

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Scientific

hns records your voice, transcribes it locally using faster-whisper, and copies the transcription to your clipboard.

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Manga

Korai – manga reader

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Korai is billed as a next generation manga reader.

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Network

7 Best Free and Open Source LDAP Solutions

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is an application protocol for accessing directory services.

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Mixer

PAMix – audio mixer

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

PAMix is an ncurses/curses pulseaudio mixer written in C similar to pavucontrol.

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System administration

awl – DNS lookup tool

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

awl is a command-line DNS lookup tool that supports DNS queries over UDP, TCP, TLS, HTTPS, DNSCrypt, and QUIC.

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JHenTai – cross-platform manga app

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

JHenTai is a manga app for E-Hentai, supporting Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows.

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Text Editor

moe – command-line editor inspired by Vim

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

moe is a command line based editor inspired by Vim written in Nim.

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Radxa Cubie A7A single board computer

Radxa Cubie A7A Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Radxa Cubie A7A.

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Science

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Robotics Software

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Robotics is the branch of artificial intelligence concerned with the study of robots. We recommend the best robotics software for Linux.

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Mixer

ncpamixer – ncurses PulseAudio Mixer

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Software

ncpamixer is an ncurses mixer for PulseAudio inspired by pavucontrol.

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Coding

CGDB – lightweight console frontend to the GNU debugger

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

CGDB is a very lightweight console frontend to the GNU debugger. It provides a split screen interface showing the GDB session below and the program’s source code above. The interface is modelled after vim’s, so vim users should feel right

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Floskell – flexible Haskell source code pretty printer

October 1, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Floskell started as a fork of version 4 of Chris Done’s hindent. The formatting styles present in hindent 4 have been preserved in spirit

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SSH

SSHM – SSH Manager

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

SSHM is a command-line tool that transforms how you manage and connect to your SSH hosts.

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