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Proprietary App of the Week

Namida – feature-rich music / video player for Linux, Android, and Windows

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Proprietary, Reviews

Namida is a modern music and video player. The application aims to combine an attractive interface with a powerful local music library

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Astra is billed as an audiophile music player

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Astra is a music player designed for playing local music files, whether your collection consists of FLAC, MP3, or other common audio formats.

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New App of the Week

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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Linux software

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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Music player

hrmp – command line music player for Linux

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia, TUI

hrmp is a command line music player for Linux (ALSA) based systems. hrmp focuses on high-resolution loss-less files (44.1kHz+/16bit+).

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23 Best Free and Open Source Linux System Monitoring Tools

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

System monitoring can help identify problems before they escalate to emergency status.

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Audio Programming

Audimorf – Linux audio file converter

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Audimorf is a straightforward tool for changing the format of your audio files. It is built to feel right at home on the GNOME desktop

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Anti-Spam Tools

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Anti-Spam Tools

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

There are a number of techniques that help fight the tide of spam. These include whitelisting, spam buckets, Bayesian filtering, fuzzy logic techniques, and attachment scanning.

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Terminal Multiplexer

Dimensions – organize your terminal workflows

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Dimensions is a TUI (Terminal User Interface) for managing tmux sessions and windows.

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Coding

13 Best Free and Open Source Command-Line Python Application Development Tools

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Roundup

Python comes with several different libraries that allow you to write a command line interface for your scripts.

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Maestro – end-to-end testing for Mobile and Web apps

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Maestro is an open-source framework that makes UI and end-to-end testing for Android, iOS, and web apps simple and fast.

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Security

PicoForge – configure and manage Pico FIDO security keys

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Security

PicoForge is a modern desktop application for configuring and managing Pico FIDO security keys. Written in Rust and built with GPUI

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Static Site Generator

kewt – minimalist static site generator

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

kewt is a minimalist static site generator implemented using POSIX shell.

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Linux

47 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal Emulators

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

A terminal emulator is computer software which emulates a dumb video terminal. We make our recommendations.

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blogtato – RSS and Atom feed reader

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

blogtato is a minimalist command line RSS and Atom feed reader designed for users who prefer terminal-based workflows.

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Security

9 Best Open Source Firewall Distributions

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms Distro, Roundup, Security, System Software

Security is paramount. Security involves defense in depth. Approaching security one step at a time, with consistency and rigour, you can mitigate threats.

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Linux

CRT’s a ridiculous terminal emulator

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

CRT is a visually expressive terminal emulator written in Rust that focuses on aesthetic customisation and GPU-accelerated rendering.

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Data Science

Datui – data exploration in the terminal

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific, TUI

Datui is an interactive terminal user interface (TUI) for exploring and analyzing data files.

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Project Management

15 Best Free and Open Source Web Project Management Software

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Web Apps

Project management is the application of processes, methods, knowledge, skills and experience to achieve the project objectives. We pick the finest free and open source web project management software.

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lazyreno – terminal user interface dashboard for self-hosted Renovate CE instances

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

LazyReno is a terminal user interface dashboard for self-hosted Renovate CE instances.

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File Managers

11 Best Free and Open Source GTK File Managers

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup

GTK is a very popular toolkit. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK is suitable for projects ranging from small tools to comprehensive application suites.

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oxicop – fast Ruby linter

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

oxicop is billed as an extremely fast Ruby linter, written in Rust.oxicop reads .rubocop.yml from your project root automatically.

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Selection of utilities

shpool – service that enables session persistence

March 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

shpool is a service that enables session persistence by allowing the creation of named shell sessions owned by shpool.

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