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Document Scanner – GNOME based tool

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Document Scanner lets you capture images using image scanners (e.g. flatbed scanners) that have suitable SANE drivers installed.

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Merkato – monitor stocks and currencies

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Financial, GUI

Merkato is a modern financial data tracker that brings market information directly to your desktop.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: October 2025 Updates

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Software

October 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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System Administration

Easy Flatpak – manage flatpaks with a simple GUI

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Easy Flatpak helps you install Flatpak apps in a user-friendly way. The tool has recipes for some of them to install them even better.

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Linux Distributions

VailuxOS – Debian-based Linux distribution built on Ubuntu

October 31, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

VailuxOS’s main goal is to make the transition from Windows to Linux as seamless as possible by maintaining familiar ways of working.

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Reference Managers

bibiman – TUI for fast and simple interaction with a BibLaTeX database

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Education, TUI

bibiman is a simple terminal user interface for handling your BibLaTeX database as part of a terminal-based scientific workflow.

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Cyrethium – Debian-based Linux distribution focused on privacy and security

October 31, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

Cyrethium is a Debian-based distribution that can route all incoming and outgoing internet traffic through the Tor network.

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Email

17 Best Free and Open Source Email Servers

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Here’s our verdict on free and open source email servers. We recommend Exim, OpenSMTPD, mox, DBMail, WildDuck, and Stalwart.

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SLADE3 – modern editor for Doom-engine based games

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

SLADE3 is a modern editor for Doom-engine based games and source ports. It can view, modify, and write many different game-specific formats.

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Voice Recognition

hyprwhspr – native speech-to-text

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

hyprwhspr is a native speech-to-text designed for Arch / Omarchy. It aims to provide fast, accurate and easy system-wide dictation.

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