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Radxa Rock 5T

Radxa ROCK 5T Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption

August 26, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Radxa ROCK 5T single-board computer.

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August 25, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Software

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Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch: Introduction to the Series

August 25, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Phone, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch. This phone sports a powerful Mediatek Dimensity 7050 with 8 cores and 8GB of RAM.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: OpenVINO AI Plugins for Audacity

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Multimedia, Reviews

The plugins provide AI-enabled effects, generators and analyzers. I can run them on the NUC Box-255H with no internet connection needed.

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K100

Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS running Linux: Introduction to the Series

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, NAS, Reviews

The Aiffro K100 is an All-SSD NAS with an Intel N100 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 4 M.2 2280 NVMe slots. The machine retails for around £227.

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fooyin

fooyin v0.9.1 is released – the best open source music player gets better

August 19, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

fooyin is a customisable music player that strongly resembles foobar2000. The new release adds some neat features and improvements.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Stable Diffusion

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In the series I’m going to explore the GPU capabilities of the machine covering AI and gaming. Let’s start with deep learning.

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15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Serial Terminals

August 17, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

A serial terminal is software that allows communication with devices through a serial port, often used for debugging embedded systems.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Power Consumption

August 15, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series I’m looking at the power consumption of the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H.

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Firefly AIBOX 3588S

Firefly AIBOX 3588S – Set up Flatpak to use external disk

August 14, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews, Tutorials

In this article I explain how to install Flatpaks to my microSD card. This is useful given the small size of the eMMC.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

Benchmarking the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H

August 13, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article I’ll benchmark the machine. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite, unless otherwise stated.

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Radxa Rock 5T

Benchmarking the Radxa ROCK 5T Single Board Computer

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article I run a series of benchmarks on the Radxa ROCK 5T single board computer and compare it to its peers.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Introduction to the series

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is a series of articles looking at the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H. In this series, I examine every aspect of this Mini PC in detail.

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Monitoring

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tree

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to tree, a utility that lists the contents of directories in a tree-like format.

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Chat

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical IRC Clients

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. We recommend the best free and open source graphical IRC clients.

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WebRTC

14 Best Free and Open Source Linux WebRTC Tools

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup

WebRTC is real-time communication for the web, enabling video, voice, and data transfer between peers using an open standard.

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Security

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Digital Forensics Tools

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Security, System Software

Digital forensics is a specialist art. It allows investigations to be undertaken without modifying the media.

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fanxiang S880 2TB NVMe SSD Review

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

This is a capsule review of the fanxiang S880 2TB NVMe SSD. It’s available in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities.

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Firefly AIBOX 3588S

Firefly AIBOX-3588S Running Linux: Access Remote File Systems Over SSH with SSHFS

August 7, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

SSHFS is a file system in user space (FUSE) that uses the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to mount a remote file system.

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Radxa Rock 5T

Radxa ROCK 5T Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction

August 5, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the Radxa ROCK 5T single board computer. It’s billed as an elegant computer with 8K + 4K dual display.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: July 2025 Updates

August 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

July 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Firefly AIBOX 3588S

Firefly AIBOX-3588S Embedded Fanless PC: Power Consumption

July 31, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Firefly AIBOX-358SS fanless PC.

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TEAMGROUP X1 Max Flash Drive

TEAMGROUP X1 MAX 512GB USB 3.2 Gen 2 Flash Drive Review

July 30, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

The TEAMGROUP X1 MAX flash drive is available in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB capacities with 1000 MB/s reads and 900 MB/s write speeds.

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WiFi

BrosTrend AX3000 WiFi Range Extender & Wi-Fi to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Review

July 29, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Internet, Reviews

The BrosTrend AX3000 is a 2 in 1 device. First, it’s a dual band Wi-Fi range extender. It also provides a Wi-Fi to Gigabit ethernet adapter.

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Firefly AIBOX 3588S

Benchmarking the Firefly AIBOX-3588S Embedded Fanless PC

July 28, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I benchmark the Firefly AIBOX-3588S and compare it to single board computers (both ARM and RISC-V) as well as an Intel N100 Mini PC.

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OrangePi SBC - RISC-V

Orange Pi R2S Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption

July 24, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I’ll see how the Orange Pi R2S compares to a few other single board computers and mini PCs which cost considerably more.

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Image of the Raspberry Pi 5

Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Good value compared to an Intel N100 Mini PC?

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

A question I get asked a fair bit is whether the Raspberry Pi 5 represents good value to purchase as a desktop PC.

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Firefly AIBOX 3588S

Firefly AIBOX-3588S Embedded Fanless PC Running Linux – Introduction

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is the first in a series of articles looking at the Firefly AIBOX 3588S embedded fanless ARM-based mini PC.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk FBX Review

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

FBX Review is a lightweight, standalone software tool for viewing 3D assets and baked animations quickly and efficiently.

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OrangePi SBC - RISC-V

Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Installing to the eMMC

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article I document transferring my Ubuntu distribution from the microSD card to the eMMC. It makes the distro much snappier on the RV2.

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CAD Software

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk Fusion

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Autodesk Fusion is a CAD, CAM, and PCB design software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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WiFi

Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Improve Wi-Fi

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Let’s try to improve the Raspberry Pi 5’s Wi-Fi performance (transfer speed and latency) with a USB 3.0 adapter from BrosTrend.

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OrangePi SBC - RISC-V

Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Building a Program

July 14, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Options for installing software are a bit more limited with the RV2 compared with ARM-based single board computers. Let’s build a piece of open source software.

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Digital Asset Management

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk Motion FX

July 11, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Multimedia

Autodesk Motion FX is software to create real-time video effects using your computer’s camera. It’s also a video editor.

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2TB SSD

Kioxia Exceria Plus G2 Portable SSD 2TB Review

July 10, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

For this review, I’ve evaluating the Kioxia Exceria Plus G2 Portable SSD. It’s available in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities. I’m reviewing the 2TB version.

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OrangePi SBC ARM

Orange Pi 5 Max Single Board Computer: Power Consumption

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article in the series, I look at the power consumption of the Orange Pi 5 Max and compare it to some other computers.

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Wi-Fi

BrosTrend AX1800 USB WiFi 6 Adapter AX4L Linux Compatible

July 8, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

This is a review of the BrosTrend USB WiFi 6 Adapter. It supports Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Ubuntu Mate, and other distributions.

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OrangePi SBC - RISC-V

Benchmarking the Orange Pi R2S Single Board Computer

July 7, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The Orange Pi R2S features a RISC-V processor, four wired network ports (two 2.5G ethernet ports and two 1G ethernet ports).

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OrangePi SBC - RISC-V

Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: orangepi-config

July 4, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

My RV2 board is running Ubuntu 24.04. Included is a configuration tool called orangepi-config. Let’s see what it offers.

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TEAMGROUP PD20 Mini External SSD

TEAMGROUP PD20 Mini External SSD Review

July 1, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

I’m testing the 2TB PD20 Mini External SSD which provides plenty of capacity for backing up a computer or holding a good chunk of data.

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OrangePi SBC - RISC-V

Orange Pi R2S Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is a series of articles looking at the Orange Pi R2S, the latest addition to the range of single board computers from Orange Pi.

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Ethernet

Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: 2.5Gbps Networking

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article I explore a simple upgrade to improve the Raspberry Pi 5’s network speed.

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OrangePi SBC - RISC-V

Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption

June 24, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article in the series, I look at the power consumption of the Orange Pi RV2 and compare it to some other computers.

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Banana Pi BPI-F3

Benchmarking the Banana Pi BPI-F3 Single Board Computer

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article I benchmark the Banana Pi BPI-F3 and compare it to other single board computers as well as an N100 Mini PC.

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ARM v RISC-V

Benchmarking the Orange Pi 5 Ultra, Orange Pi 5 Max and Orange Pi RV2

June 20, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I benchmark the Orange Pi 5 Ultra, Orange Pi 5 Max, Orange Pi RV2 against a Raspberry Pi 5 and a DreamQuest N100 Mini PC.

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Linux Distributions

Besgnulinux – Debian-based Linux distribution

August 26, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

Besgnulinux is a computer operating system based on Debian stable and developed to revive old computers.

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Coding

Staticcheck – advanced Go linter

August 26, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Using static analysis, Staticcheck finds bugs and performance issues, offers simplifications, and enforces style rules.

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PDF

22 Best Free and Open Source Linux PDF Viewers

August 26, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Office, Roundup

The PDF file format is one of the most common file formats in use today. This article recommends the best open source PDF viewers.

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FeedFlow – minimalistic RSS Reader

August 25, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Internet

FeedFlow is a minimalistic RSS Reader available on Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows.

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Monitor System

Updo – website monitoring tool

August 25, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Updo is a command-line tool for monitoring website uptime and performance. It provides real-time metrics on website status, response time…

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Vet examines Go source code and reports suspicious constructs

August 25, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Vet examines Go source code and reports suspicious constructs, such as Printf calls whose arguments do not align with the format string.

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texel – Command line interface for reading spreadsheets

August 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Office

Texel is a useful CLI for quickly reading spreadsheets and copying their contents to clipboard in CSV format.

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