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minicom – serial communication program

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Minicom is a text-based modem control and terminal emulation program modeled after the popular MS-DOS program Telix.

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Chess

zurichess – UCI chess engine

June 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

zurichess is a chess engine and a chess library. Its main goals are to be a relatively strong chess engine and to enable chess tools writing.

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Chess

ShashChess is a free UCI chess engine

June 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

ShashChess is a free UCI chess engine derived from Stockfish family chess engines.

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Data Science

Profex – Rietveld refinement of powder X-ray diffraction (XRD)

June 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Profex is a program for Rietveld refinement of powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) data based on the refinement kernel BGMN.

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Application Launchers

Jasmine – web launcher and session management application

June 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Jasmine is a comprehensive web launcher and session management application that transforms your scattered bookmarks and browser tabs

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Video Editing

Tsukimi is a third-party Emby client

June 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Tsukimi is a simple third-party Emby client written in GTK4-RS, uses MPV as the video player, and GStreamer as the music player.

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Bomb

terminal-mines is a minesweeper game for terminals

June 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

terminal-mines is an implementation of Minesweeper with an adventure mode. It is played using the keyboard instead of a mouse.

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Keyboard

openterfaceQT – app control openterface-Mini-KVM

June 27, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

openterfaceQT serves as a comprehensive control interface for openterface-Mini-KVM devices.

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Anti-Malware Tools

Kapitano – modern, user-friendly malware scanner

June 27, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Kapitano is a modern, user-friendly malware scanner for Linux. It’s a frontend to ClamAV.

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Chess

Fruit – chess engine

June 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Fruit is a cross-platform UCI chess engine.

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Machine Learning

Elelem – versatile LLM client

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Elelem is a simple LLM client that connects seamlessly with OpenAI API compatible services.

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Game Tools

Faugus Launcher is a simple and lightweight app for running games using UMU-Launcher

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Faugus Launcher lets you play native Linux games, play Windows games using Proton, and use lots of useful game tools.

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Bomb

Freesweep is a console minesweeper-style game

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms Games, TUI

Freesweep is a console minesweeper-style game for Unix-like systems. The ncurses library is preferred.

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MuseAmp is an audio normalizer for MP3/FLAC

June 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

MuseAmp is an audio level normalizer/amplifier that makes your audio files play at the same normalized audio level.

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Bomb

minesVIiper is a minesweeper clone with mouse and VT220 support

June 24, 2025 Steve Emms Games, TUI

minesVIiper is a minesweeper clone with multiple character sets, timer and flag counter, and a cheat mode.

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Role-Play Games

Gameeky – create and explore cooperative games

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Gameeky lets young learners and educators create and explore cooperative games and learning experiences.

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Monitoring

lstr – fast, minimalist directory tree viewer

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lstr is a fast, minimalist directory tree viewer. Inspired by the command line program tree, with a powerful interactive mode.

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Monitoring

lstree – ls in tree form

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lstree is a wrapper script around ls to display a nice tree structure.

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Graphics

TeleSculptor – transforms aerial videos and images into Geospatial 3D models

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

TeleSculptor is a cross-platform desktop application for photogrammetry. It was designed specifically with a focus on aerial video processing

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Streaming Music

High Tide is an unofficial TIDAL music client

June 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

High Tide is a third party unofficial TIDAL music client. Listen to your favorite music from your desktop or mobile Linux device

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