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Log Analyzers

Logmaster – log viewer for Linux built with GTK and D

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Logmaster is a simple graphical log viewer. Logmaster is still alpha software and may be buggy and optimized in certain places.

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Log Analyzers

swatch – the “simple watchdog”

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Swatch is designed to monitor system activity. Swatch started out as the “simple watchdog” for actively monitoring log files.

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Configuration Management

Zenoss Core – based on the Zope application server

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Zenoss (Zenoss Core) is an open source application, server and network management platform based on the Zope application server.

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plotting-software

GLE – graphics layout engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

GLE (Graphics Layout Engine) is a high quality graphics package for scientists, combining a user friendly interface with a full range of facilities.

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Chess Engines

Combusken – UCI-compliant chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Combusken is a UCI-compliant open source chess engine using Alpha-beta algorithm. The software saw its first release in 2020.

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Chess Engines

Halogen – analysing and playing chess

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Halogen is a powerful, world-class program capable of analysing and playing chess.

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Chess Engines

Arasan – cross-platform chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Arasan is a chess engine, that is, a console-based program that plays the game of chess.

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Chess Engines

Defenchess – UCI chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Defenchess is a free, open source UCI chess engine written in C++. It needs a UCI compatible chess graphical user interface.

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Chess Engines

Laser – UCI-compliant chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Laser is a UCI-compliant chess engine. This is a command-line engine only.

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Chess Engines

Xiphos – UCI chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Xiphos is a UCI chess engine. The project is inspired by Garry Kasparov’s “Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins.”

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Chess Engines

Igel – UCI chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Igel is a free UCI chess engine forked from GreKo 2018.01.

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Chess Engines

Nemorino – UCI chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Nemorino is a UCI chess engine. This is one of the strongest free and open source engines.

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Chess Engines

RubiChess – chess engine written in C++

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

RubiChess is a very strong UCI-compliant chess engine. RubiChess is free and open source software which plays a very strong game.

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Chess Engines

Lc0 – Leela Chess Zero – neural network based chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Leela Chess Zero (Lc0) is a neural network based chess engine. It needs a chess GUI to use beside it.

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Chess Engines

Stockfish – strong open source chess engine

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Stockfish is an open source chess engine derived from Glaurung 2.1. It is not a complete chess program.

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FICS Internet Chess Clients

Raptor – chess interface for FICS

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Raptor is an open source, multi-platform chess interface for the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS).

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FICS Internet Chess Clients

Jin – graphical client for chess servers

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Jin is an open source, cross platform, graphical client for chess servers, written in Java.

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Find Duplicates

rmlint – fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

rmlint finds space waste and other broken things on your filesystem and offers to remove it.

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Find Duplicates

jdupes – powerful duplicate file finder and enhanced fork of fdupes

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

jdupes is a powerful duplicate file finder and an enhanced fork of ‘fdupes’.

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Find Duplicates

FSlint – duplicate file finder

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

FSlint is a utility to find and clean various forms of unwanted extraneous files on a computer file system.

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