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Retro

MAME – recreates the hardware of arcade game systems in software

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

MAME is an emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms.

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Security

The Sleuth Kit – disk and file system forensics

Updated November 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

The Sleuth Kit analyses disk images and file systems, recovering deleted files, examining metadata and building forensic timelines.

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Internet Forum Software

Phorum – free message board system written in PHP

November 11, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Phorum is a flat-threaded message board system written in PHP. Phorum uses a database to manage its messages.

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Log Analyzers

KSystemLog – graphical system and service event viewer

Updated October 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

KSystemLog is a KDE utility for examining system messages, viewing multiple sources in tabs, filtering entries and spotting errors.

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Log Analyzers

GNOME Logs – graphical systemd journal viewer

Updated October 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

GNOME Logs provides a simple desktop interface for searching systemd journal events, inspecting details and diagnosing Linux problems.

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Tracker – filesystem indexer, metadata storage system and search tool

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Tracker is a tool designed to extract information and metadata about your personal data so that it can be searched easily and quickly.

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Find Duplicates

rmlint – detect duplicate files and filesystem clutter

Updated November 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rmlint detects duplicate files, empty directories and broken links, then generates reports and scripts for reviewing cleanup actions.

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Find Duplicates

FSlint – find duplicate files and filesystem problems

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

FSlint finds duplicate files, broken symbolic links, empty directories, invalid names and other filesystem problems from the terminal.

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Audio Programming

Csound – sound and music computing system

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Programming

Csound is a domain-specific computer programming language for audio programming. It is called Csound because it is written in C.

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Gamer Utilities

GreenWithEnvy – system utility providing information, control fans and overclock NVIDIA cards

November 2, 2023 Steve Emms Games

GreenWithEnvy is a GTK system utility designed to provide information, control the fans and overclock your NVIDIA video card and graphics processor. The utility’s name derives from the slogan of the GeForce 8 series, that was “Green with envy”. Nvidia

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Gamer Utilities

GameMode – optimizse Linux system performance on demand

November 2, 2023 Steve Emms Games

GameMode is a daemon/lib that allows games to request a set of optimizations be temporarily applied to the host OS and/or a game process.

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PatientOS – healthcare information system for hospitals and clinics

Updated November 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

PatientOS is a clinical information system for small hospitals and clinics, with registration, scheduling, medication orders and billing.

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Monitor System

bottom – cross-platform graphical process/system monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bottom is customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal. The tool is inspired by gtop, gotop, and htop.

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Monitor System

Conky – configurable system monitor

Updated November 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Conky is a configurable system monitor with CPU, memory, network and process widgets, Lua scripting, and X11 and Wayland support.

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Monitor System

Saidar – terminal system statistics viewer

Updated November 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

Saidar displays live CPU, memory, swap, disk and network statistics in a compact terminal dashboard with configurable colours.

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ERP

PostBooks – ERP for sales, accounting, operations and CRM in a single system

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

PostBooks is an open source accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning business (ERP) system targeted at small to medium sized businesses.

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Fastfetch – fetch system information

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Fastfetch is a system information tool written in C. It aims to be a faster alternative to the hugely respected Neofetch tool.

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Circuit board

macchina – customisable system information fetcher

Updated October 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

macchina displays system information in the terminal with configurable themes, visual customisation and diagnostic troubleshooting tools.

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Backup

Cedar Backup – manage system backups for a pool of local and remote machines

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Cedar Backup is a free and open source software package designed to manage system backups for a pool of local and remote machines.

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Backup

rsnapshot – filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

rsnapshot is an rsync-based filesystem snapshot utility. It can take incremental backups of local and remote filesystems for any number of machines.

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