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Bochs – IA-32 (x86) PC emulator

February 8, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Internet

Bochs is a highly portable IA-32 (x86) PC emulato, that runs on most popular platforms.

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Melt – backup and restore SSH private keys using memorable seed phrases

February 8, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Melt is a utility that lets you backup and restore SSH private keys using memorable seed phrases.

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Cassowary – run Windows virtual machine on Linux

February 8, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Cassowary lets you run a Windows virtual machine and use Windows applications on Linux as if they were native applications.

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Quickemu – run Linux, macOS, and Windows virtual machines

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Quickemu is a wrapper for QEMU that automatically “does the right thing” when creating virtual machines.

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Snip – simple snippet manager

February 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Snip is a simple snippet manager for your predefined Ultisnips Snippet Directory.

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Coding

Freeze – generate images of code and terminal output

February 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Utilities

Freeze generates PNGs, SVGs, and WebPs of code and terminal output alike.

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Linux Distributions

Tucana – Linux distribution built for customization

February 5, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

Tucana is an ultra customizable distro built entirely from scratch. Essentially Tucana is a Build-Kit where you can share you customizations.

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Encrypted Files

PGPTool – encrypt and decrypt files

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms Security

PGPTool is a Java-based desktop GUI application for easy and regular PGP decryption/encryption.

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Images of shells by the sea

Gum – tool for glamorous shell scripts

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Gum lets you leverage the power of Bubbles and Lip Gloss in your scripts and aliases without writing any Go code.

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Sign files

Minisign – sign files and verify signatures

February 3, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Minisign is a very simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures.

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The Way – code snippets manager

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

the-way is a terminal-based code snippets manager.Record and retrieve snippets you use every day, or occasionally, without starting a browser.

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Files

Docfd – TUI multiline fuzzy document finder

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Docfd is a text user interface multiline fuzzy document finder written in OCaml.

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Black – Python code formatter

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Black is an uncompromising PEP 8 compliant opinionated formatter.

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massCode – code snippets manager for developers

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Utilities

massCode is a code snippets manager. It helps you create and organize your own personal snippet collection and have quick access to it.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2025 Updates

February 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

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

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Encryption software

Kleopatra – KDE tool for managing X.509 and OpenPGP certificates

February 1, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Kleopatra is the KDE tool for managing X.509 and OpenPGP certificates in the GpgSM and GPG keyboxes and for retrieving certificates.

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Gisto – code snippet manager

January 31, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Gisto is a code snippet manager that runs on GitHub Gists and adds additional features such as searching, tagging and sharing gists

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mlterm – multi lingual terminal emulator

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Mlterm is a multilingual terminal emulator on X11. It’s written in C.

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ScriptHaus – organize scripts and bash one-liners

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ScriptHaus lets you run bash, Python, and JS snippets from your Markdown files directly from the command-line.

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Carapace – multi-shell multi-command argument completer

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Carapace is a shell completion library (carapace-sh/carapace) as well as a binary containing a collection of shell completers.

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