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PageEdit – visual XHTML editor for EPUB books

June 23, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

PageEdit provides visual editing of EPUB XHTML files, with OPF spine handling, an inspector, spell checking and integration with Sigil.

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Database

YugabyteDB – distributed SQL database

June 23, 2026 Steve Emms Database, Documents

YugabyteDB is a PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database with strong transactions, automatic sharding and Raft replication.

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Text Editor

Hako – lightweight terminal-based modal text environment

June 23, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Hako is a lightweight terminal-based modal text environment written primarily in C.

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DocumentDB – MongoDB-compatible document database engine

June 22, 2026 Steve Emms Database, Documents

DocumentDB adds BSON document storage and MongoDB-compatible querying to PostgreSQL, with aggregation, indexing, and search features.

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tio – serial device I/O tool

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tio is a serial device I/O tool for Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like systems.

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Search

PGroonga – Groonga-powered full-text indexing for PostgreSQL

June 16, 2026 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet

PGroonga adds Groonga-backed indexing to PostgreSQL for multilingual full-text search, JSON document queries and phrase matching.

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Search

RediSearch – search and indexing engine for Redis

June 16, 2026 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet

RediSearch adds full-text, vector, numeric and geospatial querying to Redis data, with secondary indexes and aggregation support.

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Basilisk – adaptive mesh numerical simulation

June 16, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Basilisk simulates fluid dynamics and partial differential equations on adaptive meshes, with interface tracking and multiphase solvers.

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Security

PCILeech – physical memory acquisition and security research tool

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms Security

PCILeech uses DMA hardware and software memory sources to acquire, inspect and analyse physical memory for forensic and security research.

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Security

LeechCore – physical memory acquisition library

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms Security

LeechCore provides C, Python and C# APIs for acquiring physical memory from dump files, virtual machines and supported DMA devices.

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Security

LEMON – eBPF-based memory acquisition utility

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Security

LEMON uses eBPF to acquire physical memory on Linux and Android, producing LiME images for forensic analysis without kernel modules.

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Selection of utilities

Fnf – interactive fuzzy finder for the terminal

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Fnf is a fork of fzy, adding features such as 256 and 24-bit color support, configurable padding, and multi-selection.

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TV

Sonarr – TV series monitoring and download automation

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

Sonarr automates TV series with episode monitoring, quality upgrades, release searches, download client support and library organisation.

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Hard disk image

nwipe – secure storage device erasure utility

June 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

nwipe securely erases Linux storage devices using configurable overwrite methods, parallel operations and detailed PDF audit certificates.

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Personal Finance

OpenBudgeteer – bucket budgeting application

June 2, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Web Apps

OpenBudgeteer is a self-hosted budgeting app with buckets, scheduled expenses, transaction imports, spending reports and account tracking.

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Mixer

alsamixer – terminal-based mixer for the ALSA sound system

June 1, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

alsamixer is an ncurses mixer for ALSA with keyboard-driven playback and capture controls, multiple sound cards, and customisable keys.

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Essential System Utils

Smemstat – reports the physical memory usage

May 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

smemstat is a command-line tool for examining Linux process memory usage with shared memory divided proportionally.

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GNOME Extensions

nsxiv – fork of sxiv

May 27, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

nsxiv is a minimalist X11 image viewer written in C. It began as a fork of the now-unmaintained sxiv

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VoIP

OpenSIPS – mature SIP server

May 27, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

OpenSIPS is a mature SIP server designed for professional VoIP and real-time communications platforms.

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Clipboard

ClipShare Server – share clipboard and files

May 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

ClipShare Server exchanges text, images and files between Linux computers and mobile clients using a background network service.

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