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firemark – flexible Linux watermarking tool for images and PDFs

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms Applications, CLI, Graphics, News

firemark is a command-line tool that adds watermarks to images and PDF documents before sharing them with third parties.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Battery Life

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the battery life of the laptop in more detail. The 16″ model of the laptop has a 60Wh battery.

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Internet Radio

Receiver – a modern internet radio player progressing rapidly

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Receiver is an awesome open source internet radio player. If you like internet radio, you really should try it today!

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Best Free and Open Source Software: February 2026 Updates

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms Software

February 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Selection of utilities

Archium – wrapper for AUR helpers

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Archium is a CLI tool for managing packages on Arch Linux. It provides a simple and intuitive interface for common package management tasks

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Security

Bao – verified streaming tool

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Bao is an implementation of BLAKE3 verified streaming, as described in Section 6.4 of the BLAKE3 spec.

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Rivulet – terminal RSS reader

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Rivulet is a terminal-based RSS feed reader designed to provide a clean and efficient way to follow news and blog feeds.

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DNA

Cryfa – encryption tool for genomic data

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific, Security

Cryfa is an encryption tool specifically designed for genomic data.

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Terminal Multiplexer

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal Multiplexers

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Utilities

Users that want to exploit the full power of the terminal may benefit from using a terminal multiplexer. We feature the best multiplexers.

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gptop – cross-platform GPU monitor

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, TUI

gptop is a terminal-based GPU monitoring utility designed to provide real-time insights into GPU activity in a text user interface

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Gaming Chat

7 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Discord Clients

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI, Internet, Roundup

Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media.

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Development Tools

18 Top Free and Open Source Rust Web Frameworks

March 11, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

One of the types of software that’s important for a web developer is the web framework. We pick the best Rust web backend frameworks.

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Clipboard

ClusterCut – cross-platform clipboard sync

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

ClusterCut keeps your clipboard in sync across Linux, macOS, and Windows without your data ever leaving your local network.

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RAW Tools

DNGLab – camera RAW utility and DNG converter

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

DNGLab is a command line tool to convert camera RAW files to Digital Negative Format (DNG).

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Television

KokoVP – cross-platform mpv frontend

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

KokoVP aims to reimplement the core functionality of SMPlayer from scratch using a cleaner modular architecture .

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Git Clients

GitY – simple and fast Git repository browser

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

GitY is a simple and fast Git repository browser. View branches, commit diffs, and search through all commit messages.

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Selection of utilities

ripdrag – drag and drop utilty

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

ripdrag is a small utility that enables drag and drop operations directly from the terminal.

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Subtitles

7 Best Free and Open Source Subtitle Downloaders

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A subtitle is a text representation of the dialogue, narration, music, or sound effects in a video file.

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Memerist – simple meme editor designed for Linux desktops

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Memerist offers an easy way to create memes by loading an image and adding captions or graphical elements directly on top.

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fortsh – shell written in Fortran

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fortsh is an experimental POSIX-compatible command shell written in modern Fortran.

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CDROM

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Console Audio Grabbers

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Roundup

CD audio grabbers are designed to extract (“rip”) the raw digital audio (in a format commonly called CDDA) from a compact disc to a file or other output.

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Subtitles

lssub – search and download subtitles

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

lssub is a terminal user interface application written in Rust for searching and downloading subtitles through the OpenSubtitles API.

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Music Education

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Educational Music Software

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Multimedia, Roundup

Music education is a field of study connected with the learning and teaching of music. We recommend the best open source educational apps.

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