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Terrier – flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Terrier is a highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collections of documents.

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Searchmonkey – Java desktop search engine

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Searchmonkey is billed as a powerful desktop tool for finding files and their content using regular expressions, offering power searching without the pain.

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DocFetcher – desktop search software

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

DocFetcher is a free and open source desktop search application. This software allows users to search the contents of documents.

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Baloo – KDE’s file indexing and search solution

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Baloo is a file indexing and searching framework for KDE Plasma. This is free and open source software written in C++.

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Recoll – desktop full-text search tool

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Recoll is a personal full text search tool. It is a full text search application. Full text search applications let you find your data by content rather than by external attributes (like a file name).

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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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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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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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rdfind – redundant data find

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

rdfind is a program that finds duplicate files. It is useful for compressing backup directories or just finding duplicate files.

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Educational Games

Childsplay – educational activities for young children

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children. It’s written in Python and uses the SDL-libraries to make it more games-like.

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KDE Education Project – educational software for children and adults

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Games

The KDE Education Project develops free Educational Software (GPL licence) within the KDE environment.

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JClic – platform to create, play and evaluate multimedia educational activities

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Games

JClic is a platform for the creation, playing and evaluation of multimedia educational activities.

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TuxMath – arcade-style educational video game

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Tux, of Math Command (known as TuxMath) is an open source arcade-style video game for learning mathematics, initially created for Linux.

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GCompris – high quality educational software suite

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Games

GCompris is an educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10.

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Application Servers

appserver.io – multithreaded application server for PHP

November 7, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

appserver.io is a multithreaded application server for PHP, written in PHP.

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OpenMotics – smart building automation

November 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

OpenMotics is a complete open source home automation platform. This software opens up all aspects of home and building automation.

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Intel NUC

Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Gaming

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this first gaming article about the Intel NUC 13 Pro, I’m going to revisit some of the games I previously tested on the HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini PC.

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Personal Finance

Opale – simple personal finance manager

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms Financial

Opale is a very simple, easy to use, personal bank account manager for KOffice and KDE. The simplicity of the software is its greatest attribute.

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Buddi – personal finance and budgeting software

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms Financial

Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program. The software is targeted at users with little or no financial background.

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Eqonomize! – personal accounting software

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms Financial

Eqonomize! is a personal accounting software for KDE. The application focuses on efficiency and ease of user for the small household.

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