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Chess Engines

Berserk is a UCI compliant chess engine

June 6, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Berserk is a strong open source chess engine. It’s an unusual chess engine with a unique style of play.

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Bomb

KMines is the KDE minesweeper

June 6, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

KMines is a very classical minesweeper written from scratch with three predefined levels and custom levels.

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Video Games

Tux Fishing is a 3D fishing game

June 5, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Tux Fishing is the first FOSS Linux Fishing game in 3D.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Process Explorer

June 4, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, Utilities

Process Explorer is a task manager and system monitor It provides the functionality of Windows Task Manager along with additional features.

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Data Science

Xnec2c – graphical NEC2 antenna simulation

June 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Xnec2c is a high-performance multi-threaded electromagnetic simulation package to model antenna near- and far-field radiation patterns.

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Screenwriting

Cinecred creates film credits without the pain

June 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Cinecred is a free and open source program to create credits without the pain.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Kibi is a tiny text editor

June 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

Kibi is a configurable text editor with UTF-8 support, incremental search, syntax highlighting, line numbers and more

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Pins creates and edits app shortcuts

June 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Pins allows you to customize your app menu by editing .desktop files. It’s written in C.

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Video-Emulators

dgb-n64 is an experimental low-level N64 emulator

June 2, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

dgb-n64 is a experimental low-level N64 emulator written in C and a bit of C++. It’s under heavy development and not ready for prime time.

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Security

Bouncer chooses the correct firewall zone for wireless connections

June 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Security

When you connect to a new network, Bouncer will open a window prompting you for what kind of network (e.g. home, public, work) it is.

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Stream Overlay provides browser overlays on your screen

June 1, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Stream Overlay provides borderless, transparent, click-through browser windows for streaming.

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Role-Play Games

FaFa Runner is a RPG game with a seamless gaming experience

June 1, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Developed using Flutter and the Flame engine, this RPG delivers a seamless gaming experience with stunning visual effects.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: May 2025 Updates

June 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

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

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Video-Emulators

Supermodel emulates Sega’s Model 3 arcade platform

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Supermodel emulates Sega’s Model 3 arcade platform, allowing you to play a number of ground-breaking arcade classics on your PC.

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Manage creative assets

Gradia lets you quickly edit images for social media

May 30, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Gradia allows you to quickly modify screenshots of application windows to put them better in context.

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GCompris

Flood It is a simple puzzle game

May 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Flood It is a game with the simple premise of flooding the entire board with one color in the least amount of moves possible.

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Notes

Plover is a stenography engine

May 29, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Plover is software intended to bring realtime stenographic technology not just to stenographers.

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education

Spelling Bee helps you learn new words

May 29, 2025 Steve Emms Education

Use Spelling Bee to enhance your English vocabulary while having fun.

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yeTTY views logs from serial ports

May 28, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

yeTTY is an application for embedded developers to view logs from a serial port.

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Alaska

Amsam – image cropping tool

May 28, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Amsam is a program exclusively for cropping photos based on aspect ratios. Change the aspect ratio of a photo without opening a calculator.

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