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6 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Emulators Built With Web Technologies

July 28, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

This article recommends terminal emulators built with web technologies – JavaScript, HTML, CSS.

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Fotema – simple photo gallery software

July 23, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews

Fotema is photo gallery software that’s written in Rust.

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rdiff-backup – reverse differential backup tool

June 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

rdiff-backup is a command-line reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally. This is free and open source software written in Python.

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vv – image viewer for sixel terminals

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

vv is different from the vast majority of image viewers. It’s a small command-line program to view images from the terminal.

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Gazebo Sim – robot simulation made easy

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Gazebo Sim offers the ability to accurately and efficiently simulate populations of robots in complex indoor and outdoor environments.

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8 Best Free and Open Source Hard Disk Utilities for System Tweakers

September 20, 2023 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

We showcase the finest open source tools to diagnose the health of a hard disk and improve its performance.

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Blue Recorder – simple screen recorder written in Rust

February 9, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Blue Recorder is billed as a simple desktop recorder for Linux systems. It’s built using GTK4 and FFmpeg.

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Panda3D – game engine

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Panda3D is a free and open source 3D game engine originally developed and actively maintained by the Walt Disney VR Studio.

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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2023

December 24, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, Software

We’ve trawled through our statistics and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2023.

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Excellent System Utilities: Fail2ban – ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors

March 1, 2021 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Software, System Software

Fail2ban is a daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors. Fail2ban is free and open source software.

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