Soul Player is a modern desktop music player focused on local-first playback and user privacy.
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PaddleOCR – OCR and document-parsing toolkit
PaddleOCR is an open-source OCR and document-parsing toolkit. It’s used to extract text and document structure from images and PDFs.
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Developer of the Week: Lennart Poettering
Lennart Poettering is one of the most consequential, polarizing, and prolific open source developers of the Linux era.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Linux Screen Capture Tools for Hyprland
Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor popular with Linux users wanting a desktop focused on speed, flexibility, and visual polish.
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Receiver continues to go from strength to strength
This internet radio app is definitely worth a download.
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Daphne – audio player and music library manager for Linux
Daphne Music Player is a modern Linux music player that gets most of the fundamentals right.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: March 2026 Updates
March 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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fooyin’s release 0.10.x adds important improvements
Many users consider fooyin to be the best open source music player available for Linux. Its worth checking out the new release!
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Radiotrope – AI agent-enabled internet radio player
Radiotrope is a GUI and TUI internet radio player for Linux. It’s an AI agent-enabled player built with Rust, Slint, and MCP.
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BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC running Linux: BIOS
In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC.
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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Configuring Ubuntu 25.10
In this article in this series I look at configuring one of the most widely used Linux distributions on the Chuwi laptop.
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11 Best Free and Open Source OCR Tools
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into searchable, editable documents.
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ANoise – ambient noise player
ANoise is an ambient noise player for Ubuntu designed to play looping environmental sounds from a lightweight desktop application.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux FTP Servers
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a time-honored method of transferring files to and from a remote network site.
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Nocturne – Navidrome / Jellyfin client
Nocturne is a Navidrome / Jellyfin client that brings all your music together in one place
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Astra – observatory control system
Astra is an observatory control system developed to automate and manage robotic telescope operations, originally created for the SPECULOOS observatory.
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dnsx – fast and multi-purpose DNS toolkit
dnsx is a fast and multi-purpose DNS toolkit designed for running various probes through the retryabledns library.
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claws – terminal user interface for managing AWS resources
claws is a terminal UI for AWS resource management.
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OWASP Amass- attack surface mapping and asset discovery framework
Amass is an attack surface mapping and asset discovery framework. It performs network mapping of attack surfaces and external asset discovery.
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onsen – rain sounds and white noise
onsen is a small Python command line utility that brings a relaxing hot-springs theme to the terminal.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: awk
This article spotlights alternative tools to awk, software specialized for textual data manipulation.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Audio Grabbers
CD audio grabbers are designed to extract (“rip”) the raw digital audio (in a format commonly called CDDA) from a compact disc.
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mplay – command-line music player inspired by cplay
mplay is a command-line music player inspired by cplay, but with a richer terminal interface and a strong emphasis on customization.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Crafting Tools
Handicraft is a term that describes many different types of work where practical and decorative objects are made by hand or by using only simple tools. Depending on your location, the phrase ‘arts and crafts’ may be more commonly used.
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GNOME Cam Overlay – webcam preview as a borderless overlay
Cam Overlay is a lightweight utility designed to add graphical overlays to video streams, for use with camera feeds and live video processing.
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Hideout – file encryption and decryption
Hideout is a minimal desktop application designed to simplify file encryption and decryption using GnuPG.
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bpftop – dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs
bpftop is a command-line monitoring tool developed by Netflix that provides a real-time, top-like interface for observing running eBPF programs
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S3ry – AWS S3 interactive terminal client
S3ry is an interactive terminal application for managing Amazon S3 buckets and objects.
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Noisedash – self-hostable web tool to generate ambient noises
Noisedash is a self-hostable web application for building ambient soundscapes in the browser.
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