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Security

InterceptSuite – network traffic interception tool

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Security

InterceptSuite is a network traffic interception tool engineered for comprehensive TLS/SSL inspection, analysis, and manipulation.

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Mixer

PAMix – audio mixer

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

PAMix is an ncurses/curses pulseaudio mixer written in C similar to pavucontrol.

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Coding

CGDB – lightweight console frontend to the GNU debugger

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

CGDB is a very lightweight console frontend to the GNU debugger. It provides a split screen interface showing the GDB session below and the program’s source code above. The interface is modelled after vim’s, so vim users should feel right

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Audio Analyzers

Parlatype – media player for transcription

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Parlatype is a minimal audio player for manual speech transcription, written for the GNOME desktop environment.

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cwal – generates dynamic color schemes from images

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

cwal extracts dominant colors from your chosen image and applies them to your terminal, applications, and other system components.

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Chameleon Ultra GUI – frontend for the Chameleon Ultra/Chameleon Lite

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Chameleon Ultra GUI is a GUI for the Chameleon Ultra/Chameleon Lite written in Flutter for cross platform operation.

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Terminal Multiplexer

Decker – multimedia sketchpad

September 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior.

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Game Tools

OpenOMF – remake of One Must Fall 2097

September 24, 2025 Steve Emms Games

OpenOMF is an open-source remake of the 1994 DOS fighting classic One Must Fall 2097.

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Photo collection

PicPlanner – plan your next photo locations

September 23, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Utilities

PicPlanner calculates the position of the sun, moon, and milky way to plan the perfect time to take a picture.

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Mixer

xfce4-mixer – audio mixer

September 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

xfce4-mixer is a volume control application based on GStreamer.

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Hex Editor

hx – hex editor for the terminal

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

hx is a hex editor using plain C and POSIX libs. The project’s code is somewhat influenced by the kilo project.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Janus – simple notepad

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Janus is a simple native Linux notepad meant for text editing. It supports UTF-8 and binary data.

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Archive Manager

Simple Archiver – alternative to tar

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Simple Archiver is an alternative to tar. Despite its name, this open source tool has a fairly wide range of features.

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Selection of utilities

chsrc – change source

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

chsrc is a command-line utility to change source everywhere for every software.

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Encryption

Shufflecake – create multiple hidden volumes

September 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Shufflecake is a tool for Linux that allows to create multiple hidden volumes on a storage devic

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Notes

Bookup – streamline notes with Markdown

September 8, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Bookup is a simple and efficient note-taking application designed as a clone of Notes-up.

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Science

Webots – robot simulator

September 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Webots provides a complete development environment to model, program, and simulate robots, vehicles, and mechanical systems.

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Archive Manager

Bcachefs – advanced filesystem for Linux

September 1, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Bcachefs is an advanced filesystem for Linux, with an emphasis on reliability and robustness

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Uncrustify – source code beautifer

August 26, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Uncrustify is a source code beautifier for C, C++, C#, Objective-C, D, Java, Pawn and Vala.

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Encrypted Files

Xecrets Cli – AxCrypt compatible encryption tool

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Xecrets Cli is a command line file (Cli) file encryption toolbox, runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

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