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Index – Qt-based file manager

February 27, 2024 Steve Emms Android, Productivity, Reviews

Index is a Qt-based file manager that works on desktops, Android and Plasma Mobile.

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Feishin – modern self-hosted music player

February 26, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Feishin is billed as a modern self-hosted music player. It’s written in TypeScript and published under an open source license.

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13 Excellent Free Books to Learn Ada

February 19, 2024 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, wide-spectrum, multi-paradigm, object-oriented high-level, ALGOL-like programming language, extended from Pascal and other languages. We recommend 13 free books to learn Ada.

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Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks: Server Security from TLS to Tor

February 19, 2024 John O'Donnell Security

This guide explores the approach needed to protect Linux servers including the implementation of Transport Layer Security protocols and Tor.

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hihat – minimalist offline music player

February 19, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

hihat is software that’s billed as a minimalistic offline music player.

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Configuring music

QMidiRoute – MIDI router and filter utility

February 10, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia

QMidiRoute is a versatile MIDI event processor and router for the ALSA sequencer. This is free and open source software.

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Configuring music

mididings – MIDI router/processor based on Python

February 10, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia

mididings is MIDI router/processor based on Python, supporting ALSA and JACK MIDI. It’s written in Python and open source.

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Configuring music

midiconn – virtual hub to connect MIDI hardware through the computer

February 10, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia

midiconn is a virtual hub to connect MIDI hardware through the computer. This is cross-platform software running under Linux and Windows.

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Configuring music

QjackCtl – Qt application to control the JACK sound server daemon

February 10, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia

QjackCtl is a simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server daemon, specific for the Linux Audio Desktop infrastructure.

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Blue Recorder – simple screen recorder written in Rust

February 9, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Blue Recorder is billed as a simple desktop recorder for Linux systems. It’s built using GTK4 and FFmpeg.

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fooyin

fooyin v0.3.7 – customisable music player

February 8, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Here’s our updated review of fooyin. We’re looking at v0.3.7.

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fooyin

fooyin – customisable music player

February 4, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Fooyin is billed as a customisable music player. It’s based on Qt 6.6.1, written in C++ and published under an open source license.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2024 Updates

February 1, 2024 Steve Emms Software

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

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Best Free and Open Source Social Networking Software

Pleroma – microblogging server software

January 31, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Pleroma is a microblogging server software that can federate (= exchange messages with) other servers that support ActivityPub.

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Best Free and Open Source Social Networking Software

GNU social – social communication software used in federated social networks

January 31, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

GNU social is a free social networking platform.

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Best Free and Open Source Social Networking Software

Misskey – decentralized social media platform

January 31, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Misskey is a distributed microblogging software that has been developed since 2014.

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Best Free and Open Source Social Networking Software

Firefish – powerful microblogging server

January 31, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Firefish is a powerful microblogging server on ActivityPub with features such as emoji reactions, a customizable web UI, rich chatting

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Dusk Player

Dusk Player – Electron-based music player

January 29, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Dusk Player is software that’s billed as a minimalistic music player.

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Files

Yazi – terminal file manager

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Yazi is billed as a blazingly fast TUI file manager with asynchronous support. It’s written in Rust.

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YouTube

FreeTube – privacy-based YouTube app

January 24, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

FreeTube is a cross-platform, free and open source YouTube client built around using YouTube more privately.

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