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es – extensible shell

August 8, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

es is an extensible shell with higher-order functions. The language was derived from the Plan 9 shell, rc, and functional languages.

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Front-end Frameworks

Elk – tiny embeddable JavaScript engine

August 7, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

Elk is a tiny embeddable JavaScript engine that implements a small but usable subset of ES6.

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Front-end Frameworks

Duktape – embeddable Javascript engine

August 6, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

Duktape is an embeddable Javascript engine, with a focus on portability and compact footprint.

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HDR

vipsdisp – tiny GTK+ image viewer

August 5, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

vipsdisp displays an image with libvips and GTK4. This is supposed to be a slightly useful image viewer.

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Front-end Frameworks

QuickJS – small and embeddable Javascript engine

August 5, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

QuickJS is a small and embeddable Javascript engine. It supports the ES2023 specification

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Albania

swayimg – image viewer for Wayland

August 5, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

swayimg is a lightweight image viewer for Wayland display servers.

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Image Compression Tools

pqiv – powerful image viewer with minimal UI

August 3, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

pqiv is a powerful GTK-based command-line image viewer with a minimal UI. It is highly customizable and can be controlled from scripts.

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Find

rawhide – find files using pretty C expressions

July 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rawhide (rh) lets you search for files on the command line using expressions and user-defined functions.

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Photo Metadata

ImageFan Reloaded – tab-based image viewer

July 28, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

ImageFan Reloaded is a cross-platform, light-weight, tab-based image viewer, supporting multi-core processing.

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Painting tools

Vara – minimalist digital painting tool

July 24, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Vara is a drawing and digital painting application with pressure-sensitive brushes.

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System Administration

malcontent – implements parental controls support

July 21, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

malcontent implements support for restricting the type of content accessible to non-administrator accounts on a Linux system.

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Email

neatmail – non-interactive email client

July 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

neatmail is a non=interactive mail client. It generates listings of, and executes ex-like commands on messages in mailboxes in mbox format.

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Web

wrk – HTTP benchmarking tool

July 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Web Apps

wrk is a modern HTTP benchmarking tool capable of generating significant load when run on a single multi-core CPU.

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Text Editor

GNOME Text Editor – simple text editor that focuses on session management

July 14, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Text Editor is a simple text editor that focuses on session management.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Pluma – text editor for the MATE desktop environment

July 13, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Pluma is a small and lightweight UTF-8 text editor for the MATE environment. It started as a fork of Gedit.

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Text Editor

gedit – GNOME text editor

July 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

gedit is a small and lightweight text editor for the GNOME environment. gedit supports most standard editing features.

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Text Editor

xed – small and lightweight text editor

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

xed is a small and lightweight text editor. xed supports most standard editing features, plus several not found in your typical text editor.

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Text Editing

Mousepad – simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment

July 9, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Mousepad is a simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment.

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CAD

Dune 3D – parametric 3D CAD

July 7, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

Dune 3D is a parametric 3D CAD application in an early stage of development.

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Security

Hydra – fast network logon cracker

July 7, 2024 Steve Emms Security

Hydra is a parallelized login cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack.

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