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Linux Candy: tanuki – hourly animal crossing vibes

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

tanuki is a small GUI program that plays the hourly music from Animal Crossing on your computer.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Benchmarks

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

I run a series of benchmarks on the newly released Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus. It’s a very capable laptop.

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Trix Player – Linux music player built with Rust

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

Trix Player (or Trix) is a lightweight, high-performance music player written in Rust. Aimed at Linux users who favor the terminal

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Specifications

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux. I grill the laptop using the inxi tool.

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tmuzika – Terminal music player for Linux

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

tmuzika aims to offer quick and simple music playback directly in the terminal, with full keyboard control.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Hardware Review

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

The Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus positions itself as a lightweight, mid-range productivity machine that blends premium materials with good performance.

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Linux software

Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2026 Updates

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Software

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

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Search

dsearch – filesystem search service

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

dsearch is a native file system search tool with configurable indexes and a CLI + REST API for searching files with various parameters.

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FiTui – small terminal-based personal finance tracker

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

FiTui is a small terminal-based personal finance tracker. It lets you record transactions, view totals, and see spending breakdowns by tag.

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Development Tools

10 Top Free and Open Source Elixir Web Frameworks

February 27, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

One of the types of software that’s important for a web developer is the web framework. We explore the best Elixir web frameworks.

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Encrypted Files

nacrypt – file encryption program

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Nacrypt is designed to be safe by design, using secure defaults for all cryptographic operations.

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11 Meritorious Free and Open Source Modelers

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

This article identifies 11 modelers that stand out from the others. We only feature free and open source software here.

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SPM – simple package manager

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

SPM is a TUI wrapper for pacman and yay that makes package management visual and interactive.

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Noorfetch – minimalist system fetch

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Noorfetch is a minimalistic and fast summary of information about your computer, written in Rust.

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Database

sabiql – browse, query, and edit PostgreSQL databases

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms Database, Documents, TUI

sabiql is a driver-less TUI to browse, query, and edit PostgreSQL databases.

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Docker

dtop – Docker TUI

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

dtop is a terminal UI for Docker container management with real-time monitoring, advanced log viewing, and comprehensive container operations.

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Cloudlog – web-based amateur radio logging application

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Other, Web Apps

Cloudlog is a web-based amateur radio logging application built with PHP and MySQL. It supports a wide range of station logging activities.

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Network Analyzers

babyshark – flows-first packet capture TUI

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Security, TUI

Babyshark is a PCAP TUI that helps you answer: What’s using the network? What looks broken/weird? What should I select next?

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DevOps

BuildStream – powerful software integration tool

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

BuildStream is a powerful software integration tool that allows developers to automate the integration of software components

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Coding

5 Best Free and Open Source JavaScript Object-Relational Mapping Software

February 26, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

Object–relational mapping (ORM) is a programming technique for converting data between incompatible type systems using object-oriented languages.

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WiFi

Adwaita Network – modern network manager for GNOME

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Adwaita Network offers clean WiFi and hotspot management with an Adwaita-native UI.

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Security

12 Best Free and Open Source Firewall Tools

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Security, System Software

We recommend free and open source firewall tools.

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Email

matcha – terminal-based email client

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

matcha is a powerful, feature-rich email client for your terminal. Built with Go and the Bubble Tea TUI framework.

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Web Content Management Systems

26 Best Free and Open Source PHP Web Content Management Systems

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

Manage a website with these free and open source PHP-based web content management systems.

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Monitor System

Anteon – eBPF-based Kubernetes Monitoring and Performance Testing platform

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Anteon (formerly Ddosify) is an eBPF-based Kubernetes Monitoring and Performance Testing platform.

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