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Fresh – next-gen web framework

August 23, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Fresh is a next generation web framework, built for speed, reliability, and simplicity. It’s free and open source software.

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Aurelia – modern, front-end JavaScript framework

August 23, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Aurelia is a modern, front-end JavaScript framework for building browser, mobile, and desktop applications.

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Gambling Blockers for Linux Devices Explained

August 23, 2023 John O'Donnell Reviews

Reputable gambling operators expand their influence on users of this open-source OS and provide numerous benefits.

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10 Top Free and Open Source Console Based IRC Clients

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. We recommend the finest console-based IRC clients.

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tiny – terminal IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

tiny is an IRC client for the console written in the Rust programming language. It’s published under the MIT license.

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catgirl – terminal IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

catgirl is a terminal IRC client. It requires ncurses and libtls, provided by either LibreTLS (for OpenSSL) or by LibreSSL.

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ircc – minimal curses IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ircc is a simple IRC client. It’s written in the C programming language and requires the ncurses library to compile.

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glirc – advanced console IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

glirc is built around a philosophy that the client maintains a model of the IRC connection state and provides various views of that model.

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Merkuro – calendar application

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Merkuro is a calendar application that allows you to manage your tasks and events.

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percol – interactive grep tool in your terminal

August 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

percol is an interactive grep tool in your terminal. This tool is written in the Python programming language and is open source software.

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Spedread – GTK speed reading software

August 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Shows one word at a time rapidly to allow focusing on the general idea rather than single words along with less eye movements.

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Manticore Search – easy-to-use fast database for search

August 20, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Manticore Search is an easy to use open source fast database for search. It bills itself as a good alternative for Elasticsearch.

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OpenPGP – email encryption

August 19, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Security

OpenPGP is the most widely used email encryption standard. It’s also used encrypted messaging and other use cases such as password managers.

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ptpython – better Python REPL

August 18, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

ptpython is an advanced Python Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL). It’s an alternative to IPython and bpython. Free and open source software.

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Google Calendar Alternatives

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Calendar

August 17, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Software

Google Calendar is a time-management and scheduling calendar service developed by Google. We recommend open source alternatives.

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sabre/dav – CardDAV, CalDAV and WebDAV server

August 17, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

sabre/dav is a popular WebDAV framework for PHP. Use it to create WebDAV, CalDAV and CardDAV servers. Free and open source software.

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Hestia Control Panel – lightweight and powerful control panel

August 15, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Hestia Control Panel is designed to provide administrators an easy to use web and command line interface.

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Ajenti – modular server admin panel

August 15, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Ajenti 2 is a modular server admin panel with a nice interface and a better architecture, developed with Python3 and AngularJS.

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YTalk – multi-user chat program

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

YTalk is in essence a multi-user chat program supporting both talk and ntalk protocols.

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utalk – UDP-based talk

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

utalk is a one-to-one text chat program alternative to the Unix ‘talk’ client, which uses a more responsive protocol built over UDP (instead of TCP).

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