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Video-Emulators

Amiberry – optimized Amiga emulator

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms Emulators

Amiberry is an optimized Amiga emulator for Intel/AMD, ARM (32bit and 64bit) and RISC-V platforms.

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Hex Editor

bvi – hex editor

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

The bvi is a display-oriented editor for binary files (hex editor), based on the vi text editor.

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Task Manager

chop – CLI todo manager

January 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

chop is a stream filter for todo lists. Like sed or sort, but for todos.

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SSH

OpenSSH GUI – graphical frontend

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

OpenSSH GUI is a frontend for managing your SSH Keys – on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Wallpaper Setter

gSlapper – wallpaper utility

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gSlapper is a wallpaper utility for Wayland that combines the best of swww and mpvpaper by allowing both static and video wallpapers.

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Selection of utilities

orphanhunter – identify and remove orphaned packages

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

OrphanHunter is a lightweight utility for Arch Linux designed to identify and remove orphaned packages and files that clutter your system

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Text Editor

Dawn – lightweight document drafter

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

Dawn is a distraction-free writing environment with live markdown rendering.

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plotting-article

brplot – better real time plot

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

brplot – [b]etter [r]l[plot] is a small application and library that plots data. It works as a library or as an standalone application.

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Tucnak – ham radio VHF/HF contest logbook

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Tucnak is multiplatform VHF/HF contest logbook. It is executable on Linux and other unix-type systems, Windows, Android and MacOS.

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Network Analyzers

Kyanos – networking analysis tool using eBPF

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Kyanos is an eBPF-based network issue analysis tool that enables you to capture network requests, such as HTTP, Redis, and MySQL requests.

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Selection of utilities

Bongo Cat Wayland Overlay – animated bongo cat reacting to your keyboard input

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI

Bongo Cat Wayland Overlay is a cute Wayland overlay that shows an animated bongo cat reacting to your keyboard input.

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System administration

syca – minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

syca is a minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool for Linux with PAM authentication and system-wide secure password caching.

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hcxdumptool – capture packets from wlan devices

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

hcxdumptool captures packets from WLAN devices and to discover potential weak points within own WiFi networks.

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Video-Emulators

BizHawk – multi-system emulator

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. It also has recording/playback and debugging tools.

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Albania

PixelTerm-C – terminal image viewer

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

PixelTerm-C is a high-performance terminal image browser written in C, based on the Chafa library.

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Selection of utilities

xLights – sequencer for lights

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xLights is a sequencer to design, create and play lighting displays through the use of DMX controllers, E1.31 Ethernet controllers and more.

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Flash OS

buf – flash ISOs to create bootable USB drives

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

buf is a command-line utility for flashing ISOs to create bootable USB drives.

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ascii-chat – video chat in your terminal

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

ascii-chat is a client-server application that operates over TCP/IP with color and audio and crypto and compression and multiple clients.

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System administration

gasroot – run a process as the root user

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

gasroot is a utility that lets you run a process as the root user. gasroot asks for the user’s password, using a graphical interface.

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Programming Tools for Kids

Picat – logic-based multi-paradigm programming language

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Picat is a simple, and yet powerful, logic-based multi-paradigm programming language aimed for general-purpose applications.

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