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Manuals – read developer documentation

July 27, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Manuals indexes your developer manuals and provides robust browsing and searching capabilities.

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cgmnlm – colorful Gemini line mode client

July 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

cgmnlm is a colorful Gemini line mode client which includes a CLI utility (gmni) and a line-mode browser (cgmnlm).

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Configuring music

Elektroid – sample and MIDI device manager

July 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

Elektroid is a sample and MIDI device manager. It includes the elektroid GUI application and the elektroid-cli CLI application.

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mpv-mpris – plugin for mpv

July 22, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

mpv-mpris is a plugin for mpv which allows control of the player using standard media keys.

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opencu – minimalistic serial terminal emulator

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

opencu is serial terminal emulator. It’s a port of OpenBSD’s serial terminal emulator cu to Linux.

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Chess

minnow – simple and fairly weak chess engine

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

minnow is a chess engine with partial UCI compatibility, a 10×12 board representation with piece lists.

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ttysterm is a simple serial terminal

July 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ttysterm is a minimalist terminal program like *minicom* or *cu*.

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Network Security

md5 – generate / check MD5 message digest

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

md5 is a command line utility which generates and verifies message digests (digital signatures) using the MD5 algorithm.

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System network administration

NetworkManager – networking that just works

July 7, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at all times.

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Space Nerds – cooperative multiplayer starship simulator

July 6, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Space Nerds In Space allows you to man the various bridge controls of a starship. You can play Space Nerds In Space alone or with friends

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Network Security

xxHash – non-cryptographic hash algorithm

July 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

xxHash is an extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm, working at RAM speed limit.

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Monitor Calibration

lcms2 – color management engine

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Little CMS Color Engine (lcms2) is a small-footprint color management engine, with special focus on accuracy and performance.

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Hashrat – hashing tool

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Hashrat is a hash-generation utility that supports the md5, sha1, sha256, sha512, whirlpool, jh-22, and more.

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GTKTerm – serial port communication software

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

GTKTerm is a simple, graphical serial port terminal emulator for Linux and possibly other POSIX-compliant operating systems.

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Network Security

hashdir – checksum directories and files

July 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

hashdir aims to be the easiest way to hash a file/directory. This is useful when transferring files, archiving data, or detecting duplicates.

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Hash Calculator – calculates around 50 cryptographic hashes of strings and files

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Hash Calculator is a console tool that can calculate about 50 cryptographic hashes of strings and files.

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vmstat – reports virtual memory statistics

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, traps, disks and cpu activity.

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Bomb

cgames – collection of three ncurses games

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, TUI

The programs in this distribution are re-implementations of games for the Linux console.

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Chat

Srain is a modern IRC client written in GTK

June 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Srain is a multi-platform IRC client which acts like a modern IM client. It also offers partial IRCv3 support.

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Bomb

terminal-mines is a minesweeper game for terminals

June 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

terminal-mines is an implementation of Minesweeper with an adventure mode. It is played using the keyboard instead of a mouse.

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