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GNOME Extensions

42 Excellent GNOME Shell Extensions

March 17, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Roundup

Add additional functionality to a GNOME desktop with these great GNOME extensions. This roundup showcases 42 cool GNOME extensions.

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SciPy – Scientific Computing Tools for Python

October 16, 2023 Eilidih Parris Scientific

SciPy (pronounced “Sigh Pie”) is a Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.

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Best Poker Tools and Software

June 12, 2023 John O'Donnell Stories

We’ll discuss the poker tools that will help you improve your hand while playing this favorite game of chance.

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Duplicati – store encrypted backups online

April 15, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Duplicati is a backup client that stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on local storage, cloud storage services and remote file servers.

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Noise

Awesome Linux Game Tools: NoiseTorch-ng

July 19, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Software, Utilities

NoiseTorch-ng is billed as an “easy to use open source application for Linux with PulseAudio or PipeWire”.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: Unison – Excellent Console and Graphical File Synchronization Software

April 3, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

Unison is a file-synchronization tool that allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.

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Best Free and Open Source Music Players

RustPlayer is a local audio player and m3u8 radio player

September 2, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

RustPlayer is an audio player that plays locally hosted files. It’s also a radio player.

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Data

DataMelt – scientific computation, data analysis and data visualization

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

DataMelt is an environment for scientific computation, data analysis and data visualization.

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Backup

cronopete – graphical backup utility based on Apple Time Machine

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Cronopete is a backup utility for Linux, modeled after Apple’s Time Machine. It aims to simplify the creation of periodic backups.

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Files

Xplorer is a modern file explorer written in TypeScript

October 4, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Xplorer is a modern take on the navigational file manager. It’s free and open source software written in TypeScript and Rust.

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