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System Administration

asroot – simpler alternative to sudo and doas

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asroot is a command-line utility to run a process as the root user. It’s written in the C language

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Administrators in action

sudo-rs – memory safe implementation of sudo and su

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sudo-rs is a safety oriented and memory safe implementation of sudo and su written in Rust. It’s an independent implementation.

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Selection of utilities

jet – Just Edit Text

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Jet allows you to replace all the substrings matched by specified regular expressions in one or more files.

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Video Editing

Pineapple Steam Recording Exporter

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Pineapple Steam Recording Exporter is a tool for exporting video recorded by Steam as MP4 files quickly and without losing any quality.

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Video-Emulators

Rosalie’s Mupen GUI – frontend to play Nintendo 64 games

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

Rosalie’s Mupen GUI is an easy to use yet customizable mupen64plus front-end, allowing you to easily play Nintendo 64 games.

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Chat

insomnia – frontend for the hii IRC client

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

insomnia is a collection of small programs and scripts connected using tmux to create a simple irssi-like text-based user interface for hii.

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Selection of utilities

Noctalia – minimal desktop shell for Wayland

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

Noctalia is billed as a beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland that actually gets out of your way.

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Nginx WebDAV

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

The ngx_http_dav_module module is intended for file management automation via the WebDAV protocol.

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Voice Recognition

VoiceGen – text to speech converter

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

VoiceGen is a simple text-to-speech application, with support for multiple offline/online engines such as svox and Amazon Polly.

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Wattage – monitor the health and status of power devices

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Wattage is an application designed for monitoring the health and status of your power devices.

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Groupware

kirc – tiny IRC client

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

kirc is an extremely fast and simple IRC client designed with portability in mind.

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Groupware

Circada – IRC client

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Circada is a console-based IRC client that comes with two modes, normal chat mode and the navigation mode.

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Book

mod_dav – Apache Module for WebDAV

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

mod_dav provides class 1 and class 2 WebDAV (‘Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning’) functionality for Apache.

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mbake – Makefile formatter and linter

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

mbake is a Makefile formatter and linter that offers smart formatting: Tabs for recipes, consistent spacing, line continuation cleanup.

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Reference Managers

coBib – console bibliography

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

coBib is a simple, console-based bibliography management tool.

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SSHM – transforms how you manage and connect to SSH hosts

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

SSHM is a command-line tool that transforms how you manage and connect to your SSH hosts.

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OCR Tools

Document Scanner – GNOME based tool

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Document Scanner lets you capture images using image scanners (e.g. flatbed scanners) that have suitable SANE drivers installed.

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Stockmarket

Merkato – monitor stocks and currencies

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Financial, GUI

Merkato is a modern financial data tracker that brings market information directly to your desktop.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: October 2025 Updates

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Software

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

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System Administration

Easy Flatpak – manage flatpaks with a simple GUI

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Easy Flatpak helps you install Flatpak apps in a user-friendly way. The tool has recipes for some of them to install them even better.

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