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Tuntox – tunnel TCP connections over the Tox protocol

April 9, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Tuntox is a program which forwards TCP connections over the Tox protocol.

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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Gaming

April 8, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this part in the series, we investigate the gaming performance of the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC under Ubuntu.

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Thorium Reader – EPUB reading application

April 4, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Reviews

Thorium Reader is a cross platform desktop reading app, based on the Readium Desktop toolkit.

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Fontconfig – library for configuring and customizing font access

April 3, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Fontconfig is a library designed to provide system-wide font configuration, customization and application access.

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ruptime – poor man’s ruptime

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ruptime is a program that reports uptime to a server, making the information remotely accessible using the ruptime client.

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uptimed – uptime record daemon

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

uptimed is an uptime record daemon keeping track of the highest uptimes a computer system ever had.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: March 2024 Updates

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms Software

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

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Trinity – Qt5 QML Matrix client

March 28, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Trinity is a Qt5 QML Matrix client. It supports end-to-end encryption (WIP) and has a Discord-like interface.

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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Introduction

March 25, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC is an extremely cheap computer. This is a multi-article series looking at this computer running Linux.

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Music

Quimup – client for the Music Player Daemon

March 22, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Quimup is a client for the music player daemon (MPD). The software is written in C++ and Qt 6.

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Google Chrome Alternatives

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Chrome

March 22, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Google Chrome is the most popular web browser. We recommend open source alternatives that help you break away from Google.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Edge

March 18, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Microsoft Edge is a proprietary cross-platform web browser. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Nyxt - Web Browser

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Safari

March 15, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Safari is a freeware graphical web browser that’s not available for Linux. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Log Analyzers

angle-grinder – slice and dice logs

March 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

angle-grinder is a command-line tool which lets you slice and dice log files. This is free and open source software written in Rust.

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Files

Sigma File Manager – modern file manager

March 8, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews

Sigma File Manager is billed as a quickly evolving, modern file manager (explorer / browser) app.

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Files

Cutefish File Manager – simple file manager

March 7, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Cutefish File Manager is billed as a simple to use, beautiful file manager which retains the classic PC interactive design.

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Files

CoreFM – simple lightweight easy to use file manager

March 7, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

CoreFM is a simple, lightweight, and easy to use file manager.

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Files

PCManFM-Qt – Qt-based file manager

March 7, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

PCManFM-Qt is a Qt-based file manager which uses GLib for file management. It was started as the Qt port of PCManFM, the file manager of LXDE.

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Files

Deepin File Manager – file manager for deepin desktop environment

March 7, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Deepin File Manager is a file manager developed for the Deepin desktop environment.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: February 2024 Updates

March 1, 2024 Steve Emms Software

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

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