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bc-gh – implementation of dc and bc

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bc-gh is an implementation of Unix dc and POSIX bc with GNU and BSD extensions. It’s free and open source software.

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cpc – text calculator

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cpc is a text calculator with support for units and conversion. cpc parses and evaluates strings of math. It’s written in Rust.

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eva – simple calculator REPL

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

eva is a simple calculator REPL, similar to bc, with syntax highlighting and persistent history. It’s free and open source software.

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Internet

Best Free and Open Source Software – Internet

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering web browsers, email, anti-spam, mailing list managers, Usenet, VoIP and more.

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Documents

Best Free and Open Source Software – Documents

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering office suites, groupware, project management, databases, PDF tools, and text editors.

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Education

Best Free and Open Source Software – Education

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Education, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering educational software such as e-Learning, typing tutors, bibliography tools, foreign language.

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Graphics

Best Free and Open Source Software – Graphics

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering HDR, renderers, modelers, painting, camera, photo metadata, image viewers, screen capture.

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Productivity

Best Free and Open Source Software – Productivity

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering file managers, desktop search engines, mind mapping, notes, collection managers, diary tools, and more.

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Best Free and Open Source Software – Security

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Security, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering security software, firewalls, web application firewalls, email encryption, port scanners.

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Selection of utilities

Best Free and Open Source Software – Utilities

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering compression tools, system cleaning, password managers, font tools, essential utilities.

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Coding

Best Free and Open Source Software – Development

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Programming, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering IDEs, frameworks, compilers, debuggers, revision control, programming languages.

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Photo Gallery

HomeGallery – self-hosted web gallery

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

HomeGallery is a self-hosted web gallery to browse photos and videos featuring tagging, mobile-friendly, and AI powered image discovery.

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Photo Gallery

Lutim – Let’s Upload That Image

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Lutim stores images and allows you to see them, download them or share them on social networks. It’s written in JavaScript.

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Photo Gallery

Photoview – photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Photoview is a simple and user-friendly photo gallery that’s made for photographers and provides an easy and fast way to navigate directories.

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Photo Gallery

LibrePhotos – self-hosted photo management service

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

LibrePhotos keeps all your photos and metadata on your local machine. Your data is never sent to or stored on a 3rd party server.

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skim – fuzzy finder

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

skim is a fuzzy finder. It can be used as a general filter (like grep) or as an interactive interface for invoking commands.

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Administrators in action

please – polite regex-first sudo alternative

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

please is a small utility to delegate accurate least privilege access with ease. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Documentation

Fast Unix Commands – provides alternatives for rm and cp

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Fast Unix Commands provides modern UNIX commands.The goals of the project are to provide performance, efficiency, and usability.

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Sed-Go – an implementation of sed in Go

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Sed-Go is an implementation of sed in Go. This sed engine can be embedded in your program.

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Documentation

sd – find and replace CLI

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sd is an intuitive find and replace CLI. sd uses regex syntax that you already know from JavaScript and Python.

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