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10 Best Free and Open Source Graphical BitTorrent Clients

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

BitTorrent, also referred to as simply torrent, is an internet transfer protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P).

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Documents

17 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

When invoked without any arguments, ls lists the files in the current working directory. We recommend some great replacements.

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PikaTorrent – pick a torrent, stream and download

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

PikaTorrent is billed as a next-generation torrent client offering a beautiful, lightweight, and cross-platform app

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File Managers

FTS – fast local-network file transfers and communication

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

FTS is a lightweight CLI tool and TUI application for fast local-network file transfers and communication.

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Musicat – desktop music player

January 12, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Musicat is billed as a sleek music player for your local music library. It supports MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, and OGG formats.

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SeqTUI – Terminal Alignment Viewer and Toolkit

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

SeqTUI is a fast terminal-based viewer and command-line toolkit for sequences. View, translate, convert (to FASTA)

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Text Editor

21 Best Free and Open Source Linux Markdown Editors

January 12, 2026 Luke Baker Documents, Roundup, Utilities

Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber in 2004. We feature our recommended open source Markdown editors.

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mmtui – TUI disk mount manager

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

mmtui is a TUI disk mount manager for TUI file managers for Linux.

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Tools that help you

Mansnip – navigate through man pages

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Mansnip is a command-line tool that makes Linux manual pages (manpages) easier to search and navigate by extracting relevant snippets.

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btdu – sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

btdu is a sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs. It’s written in the D language.

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Circuit board

Footfetch – system profiling tool

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Footfetch is a CLI utility for viewing system information, but with a twist

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SwiftLint – enforce Swift style and conventions

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

SwiftLint is a tool to enforce Swift style and conventions, loosely based on the now archived GitHub Swift Style Guide.

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Software

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Caching Systems

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, System Software

Caches are employed in a variety of different ways. Here’s our recommended free and open source caching systems.

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Circuit board

Katifetch – system information tool

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Katifetch is a cross-platform system information tool (fetch) that displays system details alongside ASCII art.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: man

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

A Linux system comes with a whole collection of system reference manuals (known as man pages). There’s a man page for each command or program.

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Video Conversion

Yamtrack – self hosted media tracker

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Yamtrack is a self hosted media tracker for movies, tv shows, anime, manga, video games and books.

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Coding

3 Useful Free and Open Source R Linters

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

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

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Scrap – block based programming language

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Scrap is a new block based programming language with the aim towards advanced users.

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Data Science

BART – Computational Magnetic Resonance Imaging

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

The Berkeley Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox (BART) toolbox is an image-reconstruction framework for Computational Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

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WebRTC

mux-media – CLI utility for muxing media

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mux-media is a CLI utility for muxing media (e.g. video, audio, subtitles).

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