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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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Luckfox 15.6″ Portable Monitor Review

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

This is a review of the Luckfox 15.6″ Portable Monitor. It’s an IPS screen with 1920×1080 resolution, 100% sRGB, and supports HDR.

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Banana Pi BPI-F3

Banana Pi BPI-F3 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article in the series, I look at the power consumption of the Banana Pi BPI-F3 and compare it to some other computers.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: June 2025 Updates

July 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

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

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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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Intehill 16″ 3K Touchscreen U16ZT Portable Monitor Review

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

I’ve been evaluating the Intehill 16″ 3K Touchscreen Portable Monitor U16ZT with a variety of Linux devices. Here are my findings.

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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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Ethernet

BrosTrend 5 Port 2.5GB Switch Review

June 19, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

The BrosTrend 5 Port 2.5GB Switch retails for £38. It’s a very cheap way to upgrade your local network for faster transfers.

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ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.0

ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.0 is here: discover the redesigned interface, diagram viewer, AI tools and more

June 18, 2025 Steve Emms Office

With over 20 new features and nearly 500 improvements.

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System administration

Atomia DNS – multi tenant system

July 14, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Atomia DNS is a multi tenant system for handling large amounts of DNS data through programmatic interfaces.

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Chess

Texel is a free chess engine

July 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Texel applies many of the standard methods for computer chess programs, such as iterative deepening, negascout, aspiration windows…

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Data Science

HDF Compass – experimental viewer program for HDF5

July 14, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

HDF Compass is an experimental viewer program for HDF5 and related formats, designed to complement other more complex applications.

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Trusted-CGI – lightweight self-hosted lambda/applications/cgi/serverless-functions engine

July 13, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Trusted-CGI is a lightweight runner for lambda functions/apps in CGI like mode.

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Gaming

X Minecraft Launcher – modern Minecraft launcher

July 13, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

X Minecraft Launcher is a feature-rich Minecraft launcher to manage resources like modpacks, resource packs, mods, and shader packs.

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ttysterm is a simple serial terminal

July 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ttysterm is a minimalist terminal program like *minicom* or *cu*.

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Inventory Management

Nornir – pluggable multi-threaded framework

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Nornir is a pluggable multi-threaded framework with inventory management to help operate collections of devices.

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education

Hypatia – research tool for the Linux desktop

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Hypatia is a research tool for the Linux desktop. It’s designed to provide at-a-glance information about the topics you’re reading

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Warble

muttum – guess a word in few attempts

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

With muttum, pick a dictionary and try to find the random word.

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