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HTTPDirFS – HTTP Directory Filesystem

October 18, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

HTTPDirFS is a filesystem which allows you to mount HTTP directory listings or a single file, with a permanent cache.

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TinySSH – minimalistic SSH server

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

tinysshd is a minimalistic SSH server which implements only a subset of SSHv2 features.

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Desktop

Mending Wall – fixes common problems when using more than one desktop environment

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, GUI, Utilities

Mending Wall is a Linux application to fix issues when hopping between multiple desktop environments.

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SSD

colordf – colored and configurable version of df

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

colordf is a colored and configurable version of df, forked from cdf.

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di – disk information tool

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

di is a disk information utility, displaying everything (and more) that your df command does.

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System administration

In-a-dyn – small and simple Dynamic DNS, DDNS, client

October 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

In-a-dyn is a small and simple Dynamic DNS, DDNS, client with HTTPS support.

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PixiEditor – universal 2D editor

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

PixiEditor is a universal 2D editor that was made to provide you with tools and features for all your 2D needs.

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System administration

wig – simple and lightweight DNS client

October 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

wig is a simple and lightweight DNS client written in the C language.

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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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