Mellow is an open source Linux music player with adaptive colours, gapless playback, queue editing, and removable-drive support.
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Beelink EQi 304 Mini PC Review – Noise
How quiet is the Beelink EQi Core 3 304 under Linux? We assess idle, load and fan noise, plus its unusually flexible BIOS fan controls.
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Review: MusiQt – simple music player
MusiQt is a lightweight Qt audio player with gapless playback, directory browsing, compact views and broad format support.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Process Managers
Process management software helps users launch, supervise and control long-running applications and background services.
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MinisCloud OS Review – customised Linux NAS operating system
MinisCloud OS is a customised Linux NAS operating system developed for Minisforum. I take a detailed look at the OS.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: July 2026 Updates
July 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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fooyin v0.12.0 adds audio conversion and new visualisations
fooyin v0.12.0 adds audio conversion, new visualisations and playback improvements.
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gopdf – Go library for generating PDF documents
gopdf is a Go library for generating PDF documents. It provides tools for creating pages, adding text and images, drawing graphics
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Renamer – rename files and folders in bulk
Renamer is a command-line utility for renaming files and folders in bulk. It is flexible and extensible through plugins.
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8 Best Free GUI Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files
We feature free and open source software that lets you find and remove the duplicate files.
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Lyrion Music Server – streaming audio server
Lyrion Music Server is a streaming audio server that manages and delivers music to networked audio players.
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Top 16 Web Server Performance Testing Tools
Web server benchmarking is a way of determining the performance of a web server. Here’s our recommended open source solutions.
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anstyle – collection of Rust libraries
anstyle is a collection of Rust libraries for defining, parsing, converting and applying ANSI terminal styles.
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Blades – minimal CSS framework
Blades is a minimal CSS framework designed for semantic HTML. It is a fully compatible successor to Pico CSS.
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Top 12 Programming Tools for Kids
The art of programming is often perceived as being a difficult activity. Here are great free and open source tools to help kids start coding.
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Nighthawk – Layer 7 performance-characterisation and load-testing tool
Nighthawk is a Layer 7 performance-characterisation and load-testing tool built on Envoy.
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Q22 – cross-platform binary file editor
Q22 is a cross-platform binary file editor and the successor to Catch22 HexEdit.
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Xilem – cross-platform Rust UI framework
Xilem is an experimental, next-generation cross-platform Rust UI framework. It provides a high-level reactive architecture.
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fpdf2 – PDF creation library written in Python
fpdf2 is a PDF creation library. It’s designed to be fast, versatile and easy to learn, while minimising external dependencies.
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Ansis – small and fast JavaScript library
Ansis is a small and fast JavaScript library for adding ANSI colours and text styles to terminal output.
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HoopoeLinux – billed as a light distribution
HoopoeLinux is a privacy-focused Linux distribution based on Ubuntu Cinnamon Crest.
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Worf – fast and configurable application launcher
Worf is a fast and configurable application launcher designed for Wayland. Written in Rust with GTK4.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Linux TUI Application Launchers
Application launchers play an integral part in making the Linux desktop a more productive environment to work and play.
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Carmenta – minimal, fast emoji picker
Carmenta is a minimal, fast emoji picker for Linux desktops built with Rust, GTK4 and libadwaita.
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13 Best Free and Open Source CSS Front-End Frameworks
This article recommends the finest free and open source software that lets you dive into responsive design using CSS.
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hey – command-line load generator
hey is a command-line load generator for benchmarking web applications and HTTP services.
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