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Benchmarking

LIKWID – performance monitoring and benchmarking suite

September 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

LIKWID is a command-line performance monitoring and benchmarking suite for CPU topology, counters, affinity, energy and microbenchmarks.

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Avahi – service discovery for Linux

September 5, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Avahi uses mDNS/DNS-SD to discover and publish devices and services automatically on Linux networks.

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System administration

Knot Resolver – scalable caching DNS resolver

September 4, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Knot Resolver is a scalable caching DNS resolver with DNSSEC validation, encrypted DNS transports, persistent caching and flexible policy controls.

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Scran – Wayland screen capture utility

September 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Scran is a Wayland screen capture utility for taking screenshots and recording video.

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Monitor Calibration

colord – manage, install and generate colour profiles

September 3, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

colord is a system service for managing, installing and generating colour profiles.

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Astronomy

Gnuastro – manipulate and analyse astronomical data

September 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Gnuastro is a collection of command-line programs and libraries for manipulating and analysing astronomical data.

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dna-medical

Aliza MS – medical imaging and DICOM viewer

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Aliza MS is a free DICOM viewer with 2D and 3D imaging, volume rendering, MPR, RTSTRUCT support, de-identification, and metadata tools.

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Voice Recognition

whisper.cpp – implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech recognition model

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

whisper.cpp is a high-performance C/C++ implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech recognition model.

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Voice Recognition

FunASR – end-to-end speech recognition toolkit

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia

FunASR is an end-to-end speech recognition toolkit. It provides tools for building, training and deploying speech-processing systems

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Screen Capture

xfce4-screenshooter – take screenshots

August 31, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

xfce4-screenshooter is an application for taking screenshots.

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3D Illustration

ArmorPaint – GPU-accelerated 3D texture painting application

August 29, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

ArmorPaint is a GPU-accelerated 3D texture painting application with PBR materials, layers, masks, baking tools and node-based workflows.

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Images of shells by the sea

cjsh – POSIX-oriented shell

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

cjsh is a POSIX-oriented shell that combines a standards-focused scripting engine with a modern interactive environment.

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Images of shells by the sea

loksh – Linux port of the Korn shell

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

loksh is a Linux port of the Korn shell supplied by OpenBSD. It follows the OpenBSD source closely

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IRC Servers

Edbrowse – command-line text editor, web browser, email client, IRC client and database interface

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Edbrowse is modelled on the ed text editor and presents web content through a command-response interface

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Planet Earth

osgEarth – C++ geospatial SDK

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

osgEarth is a C++ geospatial SDK for adding accurate 3D maps and terrain to applications. It builds on OpenSceneGraph and GDAL

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Bioinformatics

Foldseek – compare large protein structure datasets

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Foldseek is a fast and sensitive command-line tool for comparing large protein structure datasets.

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Desktop

zwm – minimal and opinionated tiling window manager for X11

August 23, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

zwm is a minimal and opinionated tiling window manager for X11. It uses XCB to communicate with the X server.

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Remote Display

KasmVNC – browser-based remote access

August 22, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

KasmVNC provides browser-based remote access to Linux desktops and applications.

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Remote Display

wayvnc – VNC server for wlroots-based Wayland compositors

August 22, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

wayvnc is a VNC server for wlroots-based Wayland compositors.

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Data Science

NCO – manipulate and analyse data stored in netCDF-accessible formats

August 21, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

NCO (netCDF Operators) is a suite of command-line programs for manipulating and analysing data stored in netCDF-accessible formats.

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