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NoctaVox – TUI music player for local music

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

NoctaVox recently caught my attention. It’s billed as a lightweight, plug and play TUI music player for local music.

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Framework

3 Useful Free and Open Source Haskell TUI Frameworks

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

The software featured in this roundup helps developers create TUI programs. All the software featured is written in Haskell.

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Coding

3 Useful Free and Open Source YAML Code Formatters

February 8, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

This roundup selects some useful code formatters for YAML developers.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: sigye – terminal clock

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, TUI

sigye is a terminal clock with ASCII art fonts. The name “sigye” (시계) means “clock” in Korean. It also offers Pomodoro functionality

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Ampere – lightweight music player

February 5, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Ampere is a GUI-based playlist-based audio player written in Python and Qt. It’s free and open source software.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: BIOS

February 4, 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 ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H.

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Pipeline – watch YouTube and PeerTube videos

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Access YouTube content without using a web browser. Pipeline goes one step further by letting you also view PeerTube content.

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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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Framework

5 Useful Free and Open Source Rust TUI frameworks

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, TUI

The software featured in this roundup helps developers create TUI programs. All the software featured is written in Rust.

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Linux Candy: asciify – turn images into attractive ASCII art

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

asciify is a CLI tool that converts images into ASCII art. It’s part of our Linux Candy series.

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Volla Phone Quintus running Volla OS: Introduction to the Series

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Phone, Reviews

This series looks at Volla OS, an Android operating system which has been de-googled. All your data is yours.

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Music

Hummingbird – modern music player

January 28, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Hummingbird is a cross-platform Rust-based music player with basic functionality already implemented. It’s worth checking out!

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: BIOS

January 27, 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 Minisforum AI X1 Pro.

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Site Updates: Our Plans

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Software

I’m delighted to discuss our updated plans with the Linux community!

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blaeckfetch – minimalist system fetch

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

blaeckfetch is a fast, minimalist system fetch for your terminal. It’s powered by blaeck for rendering.

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fdir – search language for your filesystem

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fdir aims to offer a fast, intuitive way to find, filter, and act on files using human-friendly commands

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ziglint – code analysis tool

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

ziglint is a configurable code analysis tool for Zig codebases.

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Deblinux – lightweight operating system based on Debian

February 10, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

Deblinux is a lightweight operating system based on Debian, designed to provide a fast and stable experience even on older hardware.

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Static Site Generator

5 Best Free and Open Source Nim Static Site Generators

February 10, 2026 Eilidih Parris Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

We have compiled a list of 5 best Nim static site generators. All of these tools are released under a freely distributable license.

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NetSonar – network diagnostics tool

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

NetSonar is a network diagnostics tool for pinging hosts, managing network interfaces, and discovering local devices/services.

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Inkcut – control 2D plotters, cutters, engravers and CNC machines

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Inkcut is an application for controlling 2D plotters, cutters, engravers, and CNC machines.

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Book

6 Best Free and Open Source Address Book Managers

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup

We recommend the best free and open source address book managers.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

ghorg – clone or backup entire repositories

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Use ghorg to quickly clone all of an orgs, or users repos into a single directory.

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Static Site Generators

6 Best Free and Open Source OCaml Static Site Generators

February 10, 2026 Eilidih Parris Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

We have compiled a list of 5 best OCaml static site generators. All of these tools are released under a freely distributable license.

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CRM

JiraTUI – Atlassian Jira from your shell

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms Office, TUI

JiraTUI is a Text User Interface (TUI) for interacting with Atlassian Jira directly from your shell.

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Selection of utilities

preset – save and run command presets

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

preset is a program for managing and running command sequences at once, so you don’t have to manually type your commands.

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YouTube

tuitube – TUI to download videos

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

tuitube is a TUI to download videos from YouTube, 𝕏, Twitch, Instagram, Bilibili and more using yt-dlp CLI.

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Selection of utilities

cmdperf – interactive command performance benchmarking

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cmdperf is a terminal tool designed to quickly measure, compare, and understand the performance characteristics of shell commands.

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Static Site Generator

YOCaml – build systems in OCaml

February 9, 2026 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

YOCaml is a framework used to describe build systems in OCaml with an API suited for creating static site generators.

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Development Tools

7 Top Free and Open Source Groovy Web Frameworks

February 9, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

We explore the best free and open source web frameworks for Groovy.

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Game Engines

TuxTuner – Wayland-native performance control for ASUS gaming laptops

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

TuxTuner is a Wayland-native performance control for ASUS gaming laptops on Linux.

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Linux Distributions

GNOME OS – immutable Linux-based operating system

February 9, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

GNOME OS is an experimental, immutable Linux-based operating system designed by the GNOME project specifically for testing and developing.

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