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RAW Tools

14 Best Free and Open Source RAW Processing Tools

October 22, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

There is a good range of open source Linux software that processes RAW files. Here’s our verdict. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who has a passion for digital photography.

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Food and Drink Software

13 Best Free and Open Source Food and Drink Software

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 13 high quality food and drink software.

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Camera Tools

14 Best Free and Open Source Linux Camera Tools

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Linux offers excellent software for dealing with RAW files, for remotely operating cameras, importing and processing raw data, as well as software to read, write and edit camera metadata.

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5 Best Free and Open Source Graphical SSH Frontends

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

This article focuses on GUIs that help you manage and create SSH connections. Only awesome open source software is included.

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Linux Chess Apps

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Chess Apps

October 16, 2025 Steve Emms Games, Roundup

Chess is a recreational and competitive board game played between two players. It’s a very popular game, played by millions across the world.

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15 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Image Viewers

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup

Want to view 24-bit high definition images in your terminal? We recommend our favourite terminal-based image viewers.

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8 Best Free and Open Source Self-Hosted News Aggregators

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

A news aggregator is software which collect news, weblog posts, and other information. We recommend the best self-hosted news aggregators.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: df

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to df, a utility that reports file system space usage in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.

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ebook reader

3 Free and Open Source CLI ebook Readers

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Productivity, Roundup, Software

This article showcases CLI ebook readers for Linux. We only feature free and open source software here.

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Email

5 Best Free and Open Source Lightweight GUI Email Clients

October 12, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Email remains the killer information and communications technology. Email volume shows no sign of diminishing, despite the increasing popularity of collaborative messaging tools.

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