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Security

LEMON – memory acquisition utility

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Security

LEMON is a memory acquisition utility for Linux and Android systems.

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Selection of utilities

Fnf – interactive fuzzy finder for the terminal

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Fnf is a fork of fzy, adding features such as 256 and 24-bit color support, configurable padding, and multi-selection.

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TV

Sonarr – smart personal video recorder and media management

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Sonarr is a smart personal video recorder and media management application for TV series.

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Personal Finance

OpenBudgeteer – self-hosted budgeting application

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

OpenBudgeteer is a self-hosted budgeting application based on the bucket budgeting principle.

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Mixer

alsamixer – terminal-based mixer for the ALSA sound system

June 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

alsamixer provides an ncurses interface for inspecting and adjusting mixer controls on Linux sound devices.

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Essential System Utils

Smemstat – reports the physical memory usage

May 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

smemstat is a command-line tool for examining Linux process memory usage with shared memory divided proportionally.

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GNOME Extensions

nsxiv – fork of sxiv

May 27, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

nsxiv is a minimalist X11 image viewer written in C. It began as a fork of the now-unmaintained sxiv

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VoIP

OpenSIPS – mature SIP server

May 27, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

OpenSIPS is a mature SIP server designed for professional VoIP and real-time communications platforms.

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Clipboard

ClipShare Server – share clipboard and files

May 27, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity

ClipShare Server is the background service for ClipShare, a cross-platform clipboard sharing tool that lets devices exchange copied content.

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Selection of utilities

dateutils – collection of command line utilities

May 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dateutils is a collection of command line utilities for working with dates, times, and date-time values in the shell.

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Fractals

Fractals Generator – render and explore fractals in real time

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Fractals Generator is a lightweight C/C++ application for rendering and exploring fractals in real time.

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7 Best Free and Open Source C and C++ Linter Tools

May 20, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

This article picks some useful tools to help you fix C and C++ code.

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Manga

Manga Library Manager – cross-platform manga downloader

May 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Other

Manga Library Manager is a cross-platform manga downloader and offline library management application.

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Command Schedulers

runcron – minimal cron alternative for automated and container-friendly environments

May 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

runcron is a minimal cron alternative for automated and container-friendly environments.

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Compression

ZXC – lossless compression library and command-line tool

May 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ZXC is a high-performance lossless compression library and command-line tool written primarily in C.

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crash – Linux kernel crash analysis utility

May 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

crash is a Linux kernel crash analysis utility for examining live systems and kernel dump files.

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Compression

lrzip-next – Long Range ZIP

May 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lrzip-next is a long-range compression utility. The project builds on the original design with a large number of enhancements.

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Eye Care Software

wlsunset – adjusts display color temperature on Wayland compositors

May 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

wlsunset adjusts display color temperature on Wayland compositors that support the wlr-gamma-control-unstable-v1 protocol.

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rr – record-and-replay debugger for Linux

May 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

rr is a record-and-replay debugger for Linux that captures a program’s execution and lets you replay the exact same run later inside gdb.

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Eye Care Software

Gammastep – adjust the color temperature of your screen

May 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Gammastep adjusts the color temperature of your display according to the time of day, your location, or a manually defined schedule.

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