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Manga

Houdoki – manga reader and library manager

July 25, 2024 Steve Emms Other

Houdoku is a manga reader for the desktop. Read manga or webtoons with a configurable reader, including vertical and two-page reading modes.

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DreamQuest with Ubuntu

DreamQuest N95 Mini PC Running Linux: Introduction

July 24, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

DreamQuest N95 Mini PC is a well specified computer. This is a multi-article looking at this computer from a Linux perspective.

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Utility Software

Xterm.js – build terminals in the browser

July 23, 2024 Steve Emms Programming, Utilities

Xterm.js is a front-end component that lets applications bring fully-featured terminals to their users in the browser.

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Linux

Wave Terminal – AI-native terminal built for seamless workflows

July 22, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews

Wave Terminal is an AI-native terminal built for seamless workflows. It’s free and open source software.

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Albania

lsix – ls for images

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Utilities

lsix is like the ls command but for images.The tool shows thumbnails in a terminal using sixel graphics. It’s written in Bash.

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socat – multipurpose relay (SOcket CAT)

July 7, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Security

socat is a flexible, multi-purpose relay tool. Its purpose is to establish a relationship between two data sources,

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Security

flawfinder – lexically find potential security flaws (“hits”) in source code

July 7, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Flawfinder searches through C/C++ source code looking for potential security flaws.

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Find Duplicates

Heatseeker – general-purpose fuzzy selector

July 7, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Heatseeker is a rewrite of selecta, a general-purpose fuzzy selector.

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Security

Hydra – fast network logon cracker

July 7, 2024 Steve Emms Security

Hydra is a parallelized login cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack.

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Music

Wora – music player targeted at audiophiles

July 4, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Wora is billed as a beautiful player for audiophiles. It’s written in TypeScript and published under an open source license.

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Find Duplicates

SeaGOAT – semantic-code search engine

July 3, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

SeaGOAT is a local search tool that leverages vector embeddings to enable you to search your codebase semantically.

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Files

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft File Explorer

July 1, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

File Explorer is a file manager and default desktop environment. It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: June 2024 Updates

July 1, 2024 Steve Emms Software

June 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Files

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Finder

June 23, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

The Finder is the default file manager and graphical user interface shell for OS X. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Search

TinySPARQL – low-footprint RDF triple store library

June 22, 2024 Erik Karlsson Productivity

The TinySPARQL library offers a complete RDF triplestore with SPARQL 1.1 interface and a minimal footprint.

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Music player

Tambourine Music Player Review

June 21, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Tambourine Music Player is described as a music player for your local music library. It’s written in Kotlin.

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Backup software

rdiff-backup – reverse differential backup tool

June 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

rdiff-backup is a command-line reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally. This is free and open source software written in Python.

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File Managers

UPDATED: Samba Permissions and HiFile

June 18, 2024 Steve Emms Tutorials

We’ve received many queries in our mailbox about HiFile and problems with PDFs.

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Backup software

syncBackup – backup and mirror your drives

June 12, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

syncBackup is software which lets you backup and mirror your drives. It’s a front-end for the hugely popular rsync utility.

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Intrusion Prevention - SSH

CrowdSec – modern and collaborative behavior detection engine

June 6, 2024 Steve Emms Security

CrowdSec is a modern and collaborative behavior detection engine, coupled with a global IP reputation network.

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