Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at LinuxLinks. We hope you have a lovely time over the festive season.
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9 Best Free and Open Source IDEs for Kubernetes
Kubernetes is a powerful open-source platform designed to streamline the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Java Linter Tools
This article picks some useful tools to help you fix Java code.
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8 Useful Free and Open Source Linux Forensics Memory Tools
This roundup focuses on memory tools that help with forensics. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here.
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4 Useful Free and Open Source Code Formatters for Clojure
This roundup selects some useful code formatters for Clojure developers.
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Linux Candy: cutieascii displays random ASCII art emojis
cutieascii is a simple and cute command-line tool that displays random ASCII art emojis.
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BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux – Power Consumption
For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC.
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HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Setting up Ubuntu 25.10
Installing and configuring Ubuntu 25.10 on the HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop.
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Benchmarking the BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI Mini PC
The BOSGAME M6 is a very powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor. I put it through various benchmark tests.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Clojure Linter Tools
This article picks some useful tools to help you fix Clojure code.
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LinuxLinks.com reaches epic milestone
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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Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Sturm Reader
Sturm Reader is an ebook reader for Linux tailored for Ubuntu Touch and portable devices.
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LinuxLinks – The Home of Linux
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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BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux – Introduction to the Series
This is a new series looking at the BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux. It’s a very capable mini PC at a competitive price point.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: stow
Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem.
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Useful Free and Open Source Security Testing Software
Here’s some useful software for performing security testing. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here.
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Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer running Linux: 3 Types of Cores
The 12-core processor has a quad-core Cortex-A720 large core, quad-core Cortex-A720 medium core, and quad-core Cortex-A520 small core.
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ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.2 released: AI grammar and spell check, customizable hotkeys, macro recording, improved PDF redaction and forms
The latest version of ONLYOFFICE Docs is already available, bringing an AI-powered grammar and spelling checker that can be enabled through the built-in AI plugin. However, the 9.2 release also brings more customization (custom keyboard shortcuts), automation (macro recording), improved PDF redaction, and clearer form-building tools, all the small changes that add up to a smoother editing workflow.
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Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: cTDP
Delving into the UM890 Pro’s BIOS reveals an option not available in the other mini PC’s I’ve been writing about. The BIOS setting lets you set the AMD Configurable TDP (cTDP).
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Best Free and Open Source Software: November 2025 Updates
November 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Process Memory Tools
In this roundup we focus on useful tools that help you work out the amount of memory used by programs.
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Benchmarking the Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer
I put the Orange Pi 6 Plus through a series of benchmarks and compare its results to a variety of its competitors.
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Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption
I subject the Minisforum M890 Pro to a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.
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Benchmarking the Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC
The Minisforum UM890 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS processor. I put it through various benchmark tests
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Benchmarking the HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop in Linux
I put a refurbished HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop through a series of benchmarks comparing it to other machines.
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Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux – Introduction to the Series
The Minisforum UM890 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen 9 Pro 8945HS processor with integrated Radeon 780M graphics.
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HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Specifications in detail
Let’s look at the specifications of the laptop in more detail. I’ll use a popular system profiler, inxi, to help delve into the laptop’s specs.
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Orange Pi 6 Plus Running Linux: Introduction to the Series
This is the first article in a new series looking at the latest piece of kit from Orange Pi. It’s the Orange Pi 6 Plus development board.
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HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Introduction to the Series
This is a new series looking at running Linux on a refurbished HP laptop.
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16 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls
When invoked without any arguments, ls lists the files in the current working directory. We recommend some great replacements.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Ruby-Based Web Content Management Systems
Here’s our favorite Ruby-based web content management systems.
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fortty – terminal emulator
fortty is a new GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Biology Tools
Biologists will be eager to use this biology software for research. We pick the finest free and open source biology tools for Linux.
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7 Best Free and Open Source MongoDB GUIs
MongoDB is a high performance, open source, non-relational NoSQL database written in C++. It’s at the forefront of the NoSQL database management system movement.
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lla – fast ls replacement with superpowers
lla is a modern ls replacement that transforms how developers interact with their filesystem.
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19 Best Free and Open Source Linux Physics Tools
This article focuses on selecting the best open source software for physics and physics education. Hopefully there will be something for interest here for all budding physicists.
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Mago – extremely fast PHP linter, formatter, and static analyzer
Mago is a comprehensive toolchain for PHP that helps developers write better code. Inspired by the Rust ecosystem.
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e2c – AWS EC2 Terminal UI Manager
e2c is a terminal-based UI application for managing AWS EC2 instances, inspired by k9s for Kubernetes and e1s for ECS.
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ktfmt – pretty-prints (formats) Kotlin code
ktfmt is a program that pretty-prints (formats) Kotlin code, based on google-java-format.
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SpeedyNote – simple note app
SpeedyNote is a lightweight, fast, and stylus-optimized note-taking app built for classic tablet PCs, low-resolution screens, and old hardware
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Kotlinter Gradle – plugin for linting and formatting
Painless Gradle plugin for linting and formatting Kotlin source files using the awesome ktlint engine.
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Konsist – static code analyzer tailored for Kotlin
Konsist is a linter that guards the consistency of Kotlin projects by enforcing a cohesive code structure and unified architecture.
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mdfried – Markdown viewer
mdfried is a markdown viewer for the terminal that renders headers as Bigger Text than the rest.
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Bookokrat – terminal-based EPUB reader
Bookokrat is a terminal-based EPUB reader with a split-view library and reader, full MathML and image rendering
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WinBoat – Windows for penguins
WinBoat is an Electron app which allows you to run Windows apps on Linux using a containerized approach.
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TimeMap – personal knowledge tool
TimeMap is a terminal-based personal knowledge management tool that combines a Calendar, Diary, Todo List, Quick Note, File Manager
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Blip – MySQL monitor
Blip is a MySQL monitor: it collects and reports metrics from MySQL to monitoring platforms like Datadog.
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Gitmal – static page generator for Git repositories
Gitmal is a static page generator for Git repositories. Gitmal generates static HTML pages with files, commits, code highlighting, and markdown rendering.
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liskvork – modern multi-platform gomoku game server
liskvork is a modern multi-platform gomoku game server that runs under Linux, *BSD, macOS, and Windows.
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