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pywal16 – generate and change colour schemes on the fly

September 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

pywal16 generates 16-colour palettes from images and applies them across Linux desktops, terminals and applications using flexible templates.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Jollpi – lightweight GTK 4 text editor with syntax highlighting

September 27, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Jollpi is a lightweight Python and GTK 4 text editor with syntax highlighting, tabs, asynchronous file loading, and a minimap.

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bubblewrap – low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool

September 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

bubblewrap is a low-level Linux sandboxing tool for constructing restricted process environments with namespaces, bind mounts and seccomp.

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Static Site Generators

26 Best Free and Open Source Python Static Site Generators

September 26, 2026 Eilidih Parris Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

Sometimes a full, static HTML website is desirable. Because HTML pages are all prebuilt, they load extremely quickly in web browsers.

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Science

ROSboard – lightweight web dashboard for visualizing ROS topics

September 25, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

ROSboard is a lightweight web dashboard for visualizing ROS topics, sensor data and robot telemetry from desktop and mobile browsers.

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djLint – HTML template formatter and linter

September 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

djLint is an HTML template formatter and linter for Django, Jinja, Twig and other template languages, with accessibility and style checks

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

cockpit-podman – web interface for managing Podman containers

September 24, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

cockpit-podman is a web-based Cockpit interface for creating, controlling and monitoring Podman containers, pods, images and Quadlets.

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sbomnix – generate Software Bills of Materials for Nix

September 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

sbomnix generates CycloneDX and SPDX Software Bills of Materials for Nix flakes and store paths, with dependency and metadata analysis.

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Speech

Kokoro – Open-Weight Text-to-Speech Model

September 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

Kokoro is a lightweight open-weight text-to-speech model offering local speech synthesis, multiple languages, voices, and speed control.

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pyiron_atomistics – atomistic simulation and workflow environment

September 23, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

pyiron_atomistics integrates atomistic simulation, job management, data storage and high-throughput computational materials workflows.

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quacc – automate quantum chemistry and materials science workflows

September 22, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

quacc automates quantum chemistry and materials science workflows across local systems, HPC resources and cloud infrastructure.

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Satellite Tool

Rayfall – map ham radio QSOs on an interactive map

September 22, 2026 Steve Emms Other, Web Apps

Rayfall maps amateur radio QSOs from QRZ or ADIF logs, with filters, multiple QTH support, custom map styling, sharing and export tools.

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Navigation

PyGPSClient – graphical GNSS and GPS testing tool

September 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

PyGPSClient is a graphical GNSS and GPS testing, configuration and diagnostic tool with NTRIP, logging, mapping and receiver support.

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Selection of utilities

Mimic – manage default applications and file associations

September 21, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Mimic is a GTK4 application for managing default applications and MIME file associations through a clean graphical interface on Linux.

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Security

Miasm – reverse engineering framework for binary analysis

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms Security

Miasm is a reverse engineering framework offering binary parsing, assembly, disassembly, emulation, symbolic execution and code analysis.

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Chess

Python Easy Chess GUI – graphical frontend for UCI chess engines

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Python Easy Chess GUI lets you play UCI engines, review PGN games, analyse positions and maintain chess repertoires.

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Anti-Malware Tools

Kunai Sandbox – QEMU-based malware analysis platform

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Kunai Sandbox isolates malware in QEMU virtual machines and records detailed system and network activity for threat analysis and detection engineering.

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ebook reader

6 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based ebook Readers

September 20, 2026 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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ScanCode Toolkit – scan code for licenses and software components

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

ScanCode Toolkit detects licenses, copyrights, packages, dependencies and vulnerabilities in source and binary code with extensive outputs.

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Anti-Malware Tools

Cuckoo3 – automated malware analysis sandbox

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms Security, Web Apps

Cuckoo3 is an automated malware analysis sandbox for testing suspicious files and links in isolated Windows environments from a Linux host.

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