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Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer running Linux: Power Consumption

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Orange Pi 6 Plus comparing it to other machines.

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Podcast

podliner – terminal-based podcast player

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

podliner is a terminal-based podcast player. It’s cross-platform software that runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Linux Candy: ascii_moon – displays the moon phase

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, TUI

ascii_moon is a small TUI program that displays the moon phase in ASCII art. It’s a small single native binary.

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BOSGAME M6

BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux – BIOS

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the BOSGAME M6 Plus.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: December 2025 Updates

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms Software

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

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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2025

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms Blog

I’ve trawled through our statistics and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2025.

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LinuxLinks.com reaches epic milestone

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms News

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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LinuxLinks – The Home of Linux

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Software

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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Groupware

Tithon – IRC client

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Tithon is a modern, cross-platform IRC client that combines the power of IRC with a clean desktop interface.

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Vector Graphics

BinVec – convert raster graphics into vector graphics

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

BinVec is a graphical program that converts raster graphics into vector graphics with real-time previews.

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Image of Files

TBDel – manage files for deletion

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

TBDel is a simple command-line tool for managing a list of files and directories marked for deletion.

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Network

SSLyze – SSL/TLS scanning tool and Python library

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

SSLyze is a fast and powerful SSL/TLS scanning tool and Python library.

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Cloud

Az-TUI – manage Azure Container Apps

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Az-TUI is a terminal-based user interface (TUI) for managing Azure Container Apps, inspired by tools like K9s.

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Linux Distributions

Ubuntu Sway – Ubuntu with Sway Wayland compositor

January 9, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

Ubuntu Sway aims to provide a user-friendly desktop based on Sway – a popular tiling window manager using the modern Wayland graphics stack.

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Painting tools

Brushshe – painting app

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Brushshe is a simple and user-friendly raster graphics editor. This is cross-platform software running under Linux and Windows.

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Ecommerce

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux eCommerce Software

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Web Apps

This feature focuses on shopping cart software, which is software used in eCommerce to enable consumers to purchase goods and services online.

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Server

Casdoor – IAM and SSO

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Casdoor is a UI-first Identity and Access Management (IAM) / Single-Sign-On (SSO) platform

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DHV – dive into Python code

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

DHV is a terminal-based tool for diving into Python code, giving easy visual access to bytecode disassembly and the abstract syntax tree.

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Backup software

GoBackup – backup your databases

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

GoBackup is a backup tool design for application servers, to backup your databases, files to cloud storage.

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SQLFluff – dialect-flexible SQL linter

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

SQLFluff is an open source, dialect-flexible and configurable SQL linter. It’s written in the Python language.

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Monitor System

bb – process viewer

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

bb is a simple process viewer that’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Stopwatch

Dayplan – plan and track your time

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, TUI

Dayplan is a utility to plan and track your time. This is free and open source software that’s written in Go.

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Desktop

Orbitiny Desktop – modern looking desktop environment

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Orbitiny Desktop is a portable, innovative and traditional but modern looking desktop environment for Linux.

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Linux

Zashterminal – modern terminal emulator

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Zashterminal is a modern, intuitive, and innovative terminal built with GTK4 and Adwaita. It’s written in Python.

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powerstat – measures the power consumption of a laptop

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Powerstat measures the power consumption of a laptop using the ACPI battery information.

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Bayesian SSH – SSH session manager

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Bayesian SSH is billed as an ultra-fast and intelligent SSH session manager with Bayesian-ranked search, fuzzy matching, Kerberos support

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Stopwatch

Tock – simple timetracker

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Tock is a powerful time tracking tool for the command line.

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