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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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Annobin – binary annotation and examination package

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Annobin is a binary annotation and examination package. It consists of two main parts: plugins and annocheck.

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Famous Landmarks

Image Normalizer – batch-processing tool that resizes and compresses images

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Image Normalizer is a cross-platform command-line batch-processing tool that resizes and compresses images.

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LibCSS – CSS parser and selection engine

December 19, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

LibCSS is a CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) parser and selection engine, written in C. It was developed as part of the NetSurf project.

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Music player

Lidarr – music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Lidarr is a music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new tracks

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SQL

Musoq – SQL Swiss Army Knife

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database

Stop writing throwaway scripts. Use SQL instead.

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Circuit board

Ångströmfetch – system fetch tool

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Ångströmfetch is billed as the fast(est) system fetch tool for Linux with a low footprint.

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Dire Wolf – AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Other

Dire Wolf is a software “soundcard” AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder. It can be used stand-alone to observe APRS traffic, and more.

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Documentation

mping – simple multicast ping

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mping aspires to be an easy to use and script friendly program with support for both IPv4 and IPv6.

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Circuit board

albafetch – displays system information

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

albafetch is a simple and fast program to display a lot of system information.

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Video-Emulators

Gearcoleco – cross-platform ColecoVision emulator

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Gearcoleco is a very accurate cross-platform ColecoVision emulator written in C++ that runs on Linux, BSD, RetroArch, macOS, and Windows.

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Document viewer

hostman – simple tool for managing file uploads to hosting services

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Hostman is a robust, cross-platform command-line application for uploading files (primarily images) to various hosting services.

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Documentation Generators

ROBODoc – automating the software documentation process

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

ROBODoc is a program documentation tool. Every function or procedure includes a standard header containing all sorts of information.

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Real-Time Strategy Games

Ballerburg SDL – classical castle combat game

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Ballerburg SDL is a classical castle combat game for Linux and other systems that are supported by the SDL library.

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Clipboard

clipsim – simple and fast X clipboard manager

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

clipsim is a clipboard manager. It retrieves clipboard text when the window owning it is closed, and keeps a clipboard history.

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