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LACT configures and monitors AMD, NVIDIA and Intel GPUs

April 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

LACT lets you configure and monitor your AMD, Nvidia or Intel GPU on Linux.

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Find Duplicates

grex generates regular expressions from user-provided test cases

April 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

grex is a library and a command-line utility to simplify the often complicated and tedious task of creating regular expressions.

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Dictionary Tools

EasyDict-GTK is a simple translator

April 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

EasyDict-GTK is a translator which is completely open with dictionary data too.

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Quick Lookup is a dictionary application powered by Wiktionary

April 16, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Utilities

Quick Lookup is a simple GTK dictionary application powered by Wiktionary (only the English version is supported).

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Documentation

File Shredder permanently deletes files

April 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

File Shredder is a file deletion program designed to permanently remove sensitive files from your computer, enhancing data privacy.

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Arcade Games

Pixelpusher is a drone-based team combat game

April 16, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Pixelpusher is a drone-based team combat game that emphasizes positioning and momentum above all else.

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Hard disk

Duplicati – store encrypted backups online

April 15, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Duplicati is a backup client that stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on local storage, cloud storage services and remote file servers.

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Database

DB Browser for SQLite – create, design, and edit database files

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Documents

DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) is a high quality, visual, open source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite.

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Game Engines

Defold is a cross-platform game engine

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games.

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Web Browsers

Tangram is an interesting Linux web browser

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

Tangram is a different type of browser. This software is designed to organise and run web applications.

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Best Free and Open Source Python Data Analysis

Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape, analyze and explore it, and publish it

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

autoenv provides directory based environments

April 10, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

If a directory contains an .env file, it will automatically be executed when you cd into it.

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Netsleuth calculates and analyzes IP subnet values

April 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Netsleuth is a simple utility for calculating and analyzing IP subnet values. It’s written in the Python language.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

mise manages installations of programming language runtimes

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mise is a tool that manages installations of programming language runtimes and other tools for local development.

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Podcast

Cardo is a GUI podcast client written in TypeScript

April 8, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Internet, Multimedia, Reviews

Cardo is a Linux podcast client for desktop, seeking inspiration from Antennapod, a podcast aggregator for Android.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

direnv unclutters your .profile

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

direnv is an extension for your shell that manages your environment.

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Selection of utilities

quickenv is an unobtrusive environment manager

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

quickenv is a replacement for direnv. It works with existing .envrcs, and as such is a drop-in replacement.

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Video-Emulators

melonDS is an Nintendo DS and DSi emulator

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

melonDS aims at providing fast and accurate Nintendo DS emulation .While it is still a work in progress, it has a good set of features.

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Selection of utilities

Shadowenv performs a set of manipulations to the process environment

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Shadowenv provides a way to perform a set of manipulations to the process environment upon entering a directory in a shell.

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Video-Emulators

DuckStation is a PlayStation emulator

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, GUI

DuckStation is a simulator/emulator of the Sony PlayStation 1 console, focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability.

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