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Text Editor

Orbiton – configuration-free text editor and IDE

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Orbiton is a configuration-free little text editor and IDE for the terminal.

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Monitoring

btail – interactive file tail viewer

March 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

btail is a command-line utility for viewing the tail of files with an interactive terminal user interface.

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Game Engines

ct.js – 2D game engine and IDE

March 2, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

ct.js is a 2D game engine and IDE that aims to be powerful and flexible while still being easy to use and learn.

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Database

tarug – minimal Postgres SQL client

March 2, 2025 Steve Emms Database, GUI

tarug is a modern, yet another Postgres SQL client, build with GTK 4 and Libadwaita.

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Comic Books

oyomu – CLI comic collection manager and reader

March 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

oyomu is a command line comic collection manager and also a comic reader.

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Hypervisors

VirtualBox – powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization software

March 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

VirtualBox is a family of virtual machine products targeting desktop computers, enterprise servers and embedded systems.

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Utility

which – show the full path of commands

March 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

which is a utility that is used to find which executable (or alias or shell function) is executed when entered on the shell prompt.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: February 2025 Updates

February 28, 2025 Steve Emms Software

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

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Crosswords

GNOME Crosswords – crossword player and editor

February 28, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

GNOME Crosswords is a crossword player and editor.

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Encrypted Files

Vaults – keep files safe

February 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Security

Vaults lets you create encrypted vaults in which you can safely store files. It currently uses gocryptfs and CryFS for encryption.

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Gaming

xTactics – risk like turn-based strategy game

February 27, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

xTactics is a highly configurable turn-based strategy game inspired by mechanics of the Risk board game.

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Encrypted Files

Volaris for Desktop – wrapper for Volaris

February 27, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Volaris GUI is a sleek and modern application designed to streamline the process of file encryption and decryption using key files.

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Encrypted Files

Qccrypt – frontend for ccrypt

February 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Security

Qccrypt is a Qt cross-platform frontend for the ccrypt command-line tool.

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Card Games

TriPeaks – solitaire game

February 26, 2025 Steve Emms Games

TriPeaks is a simple tri peaks solitaire game using libGDX.

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Game Engines

Armory – 3D game engine

February 25, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Armory is a 3D game engine focused on portability, minimal footprint and performance. The renderer is fully scriptable with deferred and forward paths supported.

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Google Firebase

Supabase – real-time databases, authentication services, and file storage

February 25, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Supabase is an open-source alternative to Firebase, offering real-time databases, authentication services, and file storage.

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Warble

cwordle – Wordle clone

February 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

cwordle is a free and open source clone of the popular web-based word game Wordle.

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Warble

Wordle CLI – play Wordle in your command line

February 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Wordle CLI is a command-line program that lets you play the famous Wordle puzzle game.

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Game Engines

Fibbo – web-based game engine

February 22, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Fibbo is a web-based game engine that allows you to create interactive experiences using JavaScript, right in your browser.

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Files

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Files

February 22, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Files is a file management app developed by Google for file browsing, media consumption, storage clean-up and offline file transfer. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

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