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5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Font Renderers

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on font renderers for Linux. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.

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Network

Gurren – SSH tunnel manager

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

Gurren is a fast, terminal-based SSH tunnel manager with a TUI and background service.

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Compression

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Parallel Lossless Compression Tools

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

This roundup focuses on lossless compression tools which use multiple cores. Only free and open source software is included here.

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LinNote – keyboard-driven scratchpad

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

LinNote is a fast, keyboard-driven scratchpad for Linux. It’s built for KDE Plasma with Qt6.

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Static Site Generator

4 Best Free and Open Source Clojure Static Site Generators

January 27, 2026 Eilidih Parris Roundup, Web Apps

Sometimes a full, static HTML website is desirable. Because HTML pages are all prebuilt, they load extremely quickly in web browsers.

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Arsse – Advanced RSS Environment

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

The Arsse is a news aggregator server, written in PHP, which implements multiple synchronization protocols.

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Stopwatch

pomoru – minimalist Pomodoro TUI

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

pomoru is a keyboard-driven TUI application for focused work. It’s written in Rust.

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Wiki Engines

Wiki-Go – flat-file wiki platform

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Wiki-Go is a modern, feature-rich, databaseless flat-file wiki platform built with Go.

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CPU

pfetch – system information tool

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

pfetch is a pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh.

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Bookmark manager

bkmr – CLI knowledge management system

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

bkmr is a fast, feature-rich command-line tool that extends bookmark management, snippet handling, markdown rendering, script execution and more.

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tcpulse – load generator

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

tcpulse is a concurrent TCP/UDP load generator with fine-grained, flow-level control over connection establishment and data transfer.

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Musical instruments

daph – terminal-based music player

January 26, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

daph is a terminal-based music player for Linux. It’s written in the popular Rust language and published under an open source license.

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Stopwatch

Tomat – Pomodoro timer

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Tomat is a Pomodoro timer for Linux, designed for seamless integration with waybar and other status bars.

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Audio Analyzers

Soundscope – analyzing audio data

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Soundscope is a cross-platform CLI tool for analyzing audio files. It has a TUI interface.

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Recording Studio

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Screen Recorders

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A screen recorder is software which lets you capture a digital recording of computer screen output, typically carrying audio narration.

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Kafka – distributed event streaming platform

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration.

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Database

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graph Databases

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

A graph database stores nodes and relationships instead of tables, or documents. We recommend the best graph databases.

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Coding

BugStalker – Rust debugger

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

BugStalker is a modern debugger for Linux x86-64. Written in Rust for Rust programs.

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XMPP

7 Best Free and Open Source Console Based XMPP Clients

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Here’s our verdict on the best console-based XMPP clients. They are free and open source goodness.

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Network

AWSM – AWS manager

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

AWSM is billed as a powerful CLI tool to simplify working with AWS profiles, credentials, and sessions.

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