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Benchmarking

hw-monitor – comprehensive hardware monitoring application

September 28, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

hw-monitor is a Linux desktop hardware monitor with live CPU, memory, GPU, disk and network data, sensors, processes and services.

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Hakoniwa – process isolation using Linux security facilities

September 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Hakoniwa provides Linux process isolation with namespaces, cgroups, resource limits, Landlock, seccomp and configurable filesystem access.

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Music image

mpdris2-rs – expose MPD playback through MPRIS2

September 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mpdris2-rs is a lightweight Rust bridge exposing MPD playback and queue information through MPRIS2, with remote cover art support.

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Selection of utilities

pacrank – pick the fastest Arch Linux mirrors

September 27, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

pacrank ranks Arch Linux mirrors using latency and real download throughput, then safely replaces Pacman’s mirrorlist with the fastest choices.

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Syd – configurable application sandbox for Linux

September 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Syd is a Linux application sandbox using seccomp, Landlock and namespaces to control filesystem, network and process behaviour.

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Mixer

wiremix – terminal audio mixer for PipeWire

September 27, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

wiremix is a terminal PipeWire mixer for adjusting volumes, routing audio, selecting devices and profiles, and monitoring peak levels.

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Configuring music

coppwr – low-level graphical control for PipeWire

September 26, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

coppwr provides low-level graphical control of PipeWire with node graph editing, object inspection, metadata editing and profiling tools.

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Sound Systems

Helvum – graphical patchbay for PipeWire

September 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Helvum is a graphical PipeWire patchbay for creating and removing connections between audio, video and MIDI applications and devices.

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Logfile Viewer

fblog – view and filter JSON logs

September 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

fblog is a command-line JSON log viewer with Lua filtering, customizable formatting and colorized log levels.

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Logfile Viewer

Journal Viewer – graphical systemd journal viewer

September 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Journal Viewer is a graphical application for viewing, searching and filtering systemd journal logs with powerful filtering and graphs.

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Security

knife – reverse engineering toolkit for binary analysis

September 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security, TUI

knife is a reverse engineering toolkit for static analysis of PE, ELF and Mach-O binaries, with disassembly, triage and auditing.

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Selection of utilities

handlr-regex – manage default applications with regular expressions

September 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

handlr-regex is a fast Rust CLI for managing default applications, MIME handlers and regex-based rules, with scripting and selector support.

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Selection of utilities

mime-tui – keyboard-driven MIME association manager

September 22, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

mime-tui is a keyboard-driven TUI for managing default applications and MIME associations with fuzzy search, safe writes and XDG-aware handling.

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Guitar

ruxguitar – Guitar Pro tablature player

September 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

ruxguitar is a free and open source Guitar Pro tablature player with MIDI playback, tempo control, track selection and SoundFont support.

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Chaski – modern RSS and Atom feed reader

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Reviews

Chaski is an RSS and Atom feed reader with offline reading, search, filters and feed synchronization support.

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Patinae – programmable molecular visualization toolkit

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Patinae is a GPU-first molecular visualization toolkit for structural analysis, scripting, publication images, notebooks and web embedding.

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Images

Flaca – losslessly compress GIF, JPEG and PNG images

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Flaca is a Rust command-line tool for maximally and losslessly compressing GIF, JPEG and PNG images for production web use.

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Chess

Focalors – offline chess engine and learning application

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Focalors is an offline chess engine and learning app with game reviews, readable explanations, personal puzzles and statistics.

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tuidict – fast FreeDict dictionary TUI

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

tuidict is a fast FreeDict TUI with live prefix search, multiple language pairs, local dictionaries and integrated downloads and management.

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Images

cavif – convert PNG and JPEG images to AVIF

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

cavif is a pure-Rust command-line tool that converts PNG and JPEG images to AVIF with quality, speed and colour controls.

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