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Encrypted Files

nacrypt – file encryption program

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Nacrypt is designed to be safe by design, using secure defaults for all cryptographic operations.

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Magical Potions

Bforartists – complete 3D suite to create 3D content

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Bforartists is a complete 3D suite to create 3D content. It offers you the full 3D art pipeline to create game graphics, prerendered movies and stills.

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Security

nftables – in-kernel packet classification framework

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Security

nftables replaces the popular {ip,ip6,arp,eb}tables. This software also provides libnftables.

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Security

Vuurmuur – powerful firewall manager built on top of ​iptables

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Security

Vuurmuur is a powerful firewall manager built on top of iptables on Linux. It has a simple and easy to learn configuration that allows simple and complex configurations.

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Blender – 3D creation suite

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Blender is a free and open source 3D content creation suite available for many operating systems including Linux.

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LibreSprite – create 2D animations for videogames

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

LibreSprite is software to create and animate sprites. LibreSprite originated as a fork of Aseprite, developed by David Capello.

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Selection of utilities

MapWizard – tool for osu! beatmap editing

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

MapWizard is a modern tool for osu! beatmap editing, designed to streamline your workflow with features like hitsound transfer.

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Hypervisors

RVVM – RISC-V virtual machine

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

RVVM is a virtual machine / emulator for RISC-V guests, which emphasizes on performance, security, lean code and portability.

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Photo collection

Photos – access, organize and share your photos on GNOME

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics

Access, organize and share your photos on GNOME. A simple and elegant replacement for using a file manager to deal with photos.

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Flickr

Frogr – manage accounts in the Flickr image hosting website

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics

Flickr Remote Organizer (Frogr) is a small open source application for the GNOME desktop that allows users to manage their accounts in Flickr.

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Find Duplicates

FSearch – inspired by Everything Search Engine

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

FSearch is a fast file search open source utility for Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine, a desktop search utility.

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tmuzika – Terminal music player for Linux

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

tmuzika aims to offer quick and simple music playback directly in the terminal, with full keyboard control.

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Coding

Venflow – fast and lightweight ORM for PostgreSQL

February 24, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming

Venflow is an ORM, written from the ground up to try and provide an alternative to EF-Core and many other ORMs.

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Coding

NHibernate – mature, open source object-relational mapper for the .NET framework

February 24, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming

NHibernate is a mature object-relational mapper for the .NET framework.

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Coding

RepoDB – hybrid ORM library for .NET

February 24, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming

RepoDB is an open-source .NET ORM library that bridges the gaps of micro-ORMs and full-ORMs.

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Coding

Dapper – a simple object mapper for .NET

February 24, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming

Dapper is an object–relational mapping (ORM) product for the Microsoft .NET platform.

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Coding

Entity Framework Core – modern object-database mapper for .NET

February 24, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming

EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations.

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Desktop Environments

Docky – full fledged dock application

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Docky is a fully fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker.

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Desktop Environments

Cairo-Dock – desktop interface

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Cairo-Dock is an attractive, lightweight eye-candy dock. It has a family-likeness with the OS X dock, but with more options.

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Luminance – control brightness of displays

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Luminance is a simple GTK application to control brightness of displays including external displays supporting DDC/CI.

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