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trizen – lightweight AUR package manager

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trizen is a lightweight AUR package manager that’s written in the Perl programming language.

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Musical instruments

GrandOrgue – pipe organ simulator

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

GrandOrgue is a virtual pipe organ sample player application supporting a HW1 compatible file format.

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pikaur – AUR helper with minimal dependencies

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pikaur is an AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.

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Google Drawings

Project Graph – next generation node graph drawing tool

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Project Graph is a simple but powerful tool for drawing graphs. Unleash creativity and streamline workflows with AI-powered graph design.

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Selection of utilities

chsrc – change source

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

chsrc is a command-line utility to change source everywhere for every software.

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Pakku – pacman wrapper with additional features

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pakku is a pacman wrapper with additional features, such as AUR support. It’s written in Nim.

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Shufflecake – create multiple hidden volumes

September 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Shufflecake is a tool for Linux that allows to create multiple hidden volumes on a storage devic

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Aura – package manager for Arch Linux

September 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Aura is a package manager for Arch Linux. Its original purpose was in supplementing Pacman to support the building of AUR packages

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Elephant – general purpose datasource and executor

September 7, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Elephant acts as a unified backend service that aggregates data from various sources.

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Notes

Notorious – keyboard centric notes

September 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Notorious is a keyboard centric notes app made for power users.

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System administration

Relax-and-Recover – Linux Disaster Recovery

September 5, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) is a setup-and-forget Linux bare metal disaster recovery solution.

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ntpd-rs – synchronizing your computer’s clock

September 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

ntpd-rs is a tool for synchronizing your computer’s clock, implementing the NTP and NTS protocols. It is written in Rust.

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OnTheSpot – GUI music downloader

September 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

OnTheSpot is an easy to use music downloader. It’s written in Python.

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Video Conversion

Gyroflow – video stabilization using gyroscope data

September 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Gyroflow is an application that can stabilize your video by using motion data from a gyroscope and optionally an accelerometer.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: August 2025 Updates

August 31, 2025 Steve Emms Software

August 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Tetris

Quadrapassel – falling-block game

August 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Quadrapassel is a derivative of a classic falling-block game.

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lyrus – cmus lyric player

August 30, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

lyrus is a fully fledged cmus, mpd lyric player automatic lyrics fetcher.

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Video Games

DuckRun – chrome dino game clone

August 29, 2025 Steve Emms Games

DuckRun is a little game about a duck who loves to hop and wants to collect some coins. It’s made with the Godot game engine.

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Fedinspect – analyse Fediverse servers

August 29, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Fedinspect is a GNOME application to enable developers to inspect and analyse fediverse server configurations.

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Color Palette – look up GNOME colors

August 28, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Color Palette is a tool for viewing the GNOME color palette as defined by the design guidelines.

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