The BOSGAME M6 is very powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor. I put it through various benchmark tests.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Clojure Linter Tools
This article picks some useful tools to help you fix Clojure code.
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LinuxLinks.com reaches epic milestone
We at LinuxLinks.com are thrilled to announce a remarkable achievement: we’ve just published our 10,000th article on all things Linux!
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Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Sturm Reader
Sturm Reader is an ebook reader for Linux tailored for Ubuntu Touch and portable devices.
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LinuxLinks – The Home of Linux
Our popular series on the best free and open source Linux software, hardware including mini PCs and SBCs, phones, and NAS devices.
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BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux – Introduction to the Series
This is a new series looking at the BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux. It’s a very capable mini PC at a competitive price point.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: stow
Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem.
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Useful Free and Open Source Security Testing Software
Here’s some useful software for performing security testing. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here.
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TUISIC – simple TUI online music streaming software
TUISIC is a simple TUI online music streaming application written in C++ with vim keybindings.
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Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer running Linux: 3 Types of Cores
The 12-core processor has a quad-core Cortex-A720 large core, quad-core Cortex-A720 medium core, and quad-core Cortex-A520 small core.
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ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.2 released: AI grammar and spell check, customizable hotkeys, macro recording, improved PDF redaction and forms
The latest version of ONLYOFFICE Docs is already available, bringing an AI-powered grammar and spelling checker that can be enabled through the built-in AI plugin. However, the 9.2 release also brings more customization (custom keyboard shortcuts), automation (macro recording), improved PDF redaction, and clearer form-building tools, all the small changes that add up to a smoother editing workflow.
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Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: cTDP
Delving into the UM890 Pro’s BIOS reveals an option not available in the other mini PC’s I’ve been writing about. The BIOS setting lets you set the AMD Configurable TDP (cTDP).
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Best Free and Open Source Software: November 2025 Updates
November 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Process Memory Tools
In this roundup we focus on useful tools that help you work out the amount of memory used by programs.
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Benchmarking the Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer
I put the Orange Pi 6 Plus through a series of benchmarks and compare its results to a variety of its competitors.
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Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption
I subject the Minisforum M890 Pro to a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.
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Benchmarking the Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC
The Minisforum UM890 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS processor. I put it through various benchmark tests
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Benchmarking the HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop in Linux
I put a refurbished HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop through a series of benchmarks comparing it to other machines.
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Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux – Introduction to the Series
The Minisforum UM890 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen 9 Pro 8945HS processor with integrated Radeon 780M graphics.
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HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Specifications in detail
Let’s look at the specifications of the laptop in more detail. I’ll use a popular system profiler, inxi, to help delve into the laptop’s specs.
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Orange Pi 6 Plus Running Linux: Introduction to the Series
This is the first article in a new series looking at the latest piece of kit from Orange Pi. It’s the Orange Pi 6 Plus development board.
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HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Introduction to the Series
This is a new series looking at running Linux on a refurbished HP laptop.
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12 Excellent Free and Open Source Scorewriters – Compose, arrange, print, and publish music
A scorewriter is software used with a computer for creating, editing and printing sheet music. We recommend free and open source software.
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Lichen – multi-headphone audio router for Linux
Lichen lets you route audio to multiple headphones simultaneously and mix multiple microphones into a single virtual input.
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Helio – music sequencer
Helio aims to be a modern music creation software, featuring linear-based/pattern-based sequencer with clean UI
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mcat – extended cat command
mcat is a terminal image, video and Markdown viewer. It’s written in the Rust programming language.
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rustffetch – neofetch-like information manager
rustffetch is a simple, fast and flexible neofetch-like information manager.
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Lightning CSS – parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier
Lightning CSS is an extremely fast CSS parser, transformer, and minifier written in Rust. Use it with Parcel, as a standalone library or CLI
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PostCSS – transform styles with JavaScript plugins
PostCSS is a tool for transforming styles with JS plugins.
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Stylecow – modern CSS to all browsers
Stylecow is a Node library to fix your CSS code and make it compatible with all browsers.
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lqth – screenshot utility
lqth is a simple but fast screenshot utility inspired by xscreenshot and follows the suckless philosophy. It supports X only (no Wayland support).
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Dire Wolf – AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder
Dire Wolf is a software “soundcard” AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder. It can be used stand-alone to observe APRS traffic, and more.
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5 Best Free and Open Source CardDAV Servers
CardDAV (“Card Distributed Authoring and Versioning”) is a standardized address book client/server protocol.
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mping – simple multicast ping
mping aspires to be an easy to use and script friendly program with support for both IPv4 and IPv6.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: rm
This article spotlights alternative tools to rm, a command that removes files or directories.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Search Engines for Big Data
Big Data is an all-inclusive term that refers to data sets so large and complex that they need to be processed by specially designed hardware and software tools.
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sling – slings from a data source to a data target
Sling offers an easy solution to create and maintain small to medium volume data pipelines using the Extract & Load (EL) approach.
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Vespa – AI search platform
Vespa is an AI Search Platform for developing and operating large-scale applications that combine big data, vector search, machine-learned ranking, and real-time inference.
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Plakar – scalable backup solution
Plakar provides a powerful, and scalable backup solution. Besides file-level backups it captures application data with its full context.
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7 Best Free and Open Source CLI Command Schedulers
The software utility cron also known as cron job is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. But there are other high quality CLI command schedulers.
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