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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: catspeak – like cowsay but catty

March 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

catspeak is a command-line tool that generates an ASCII picture with a message. It’s a cowsay like program of a speaking cat.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Power Consumption

March 5, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux.

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Music Player

CLIAMP – retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp

March 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

CLIAMP is billed as a retro-inspired terminal music player influenced by the classic Winamp 2.x era. It’s really cool!

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Internet Radio

Receiver – Linux tool to enjoy 30,000+ verified radio stations

March 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Reviews

Receiver is an excellent program. With a bit more development, it’ll replace Shortwave, Tuner and Transistor as my go to GUI internet radio player.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: BIOS

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux. I take a look at the laptop’s BIOS.

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Linux software

Best Free and Open Source Software: February 2026 Updates

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms Software

February 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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6 Best Free and Open Source Linux Soundboards

February 28, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A soundboard is a useful tool that showcases various sound clips—think effects, jingles, voice snippets, and music—arranged in a grid layout for easy access.

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Linux Candy: tanuki – hourly animal crossing vibes

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

tanuki is a small GUI program that plays the hourly music from Animal Crossing on your computer.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Benchmarks

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

I run a series of benchmarks on the newly released Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus. It’s a very capable laptop.

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Trix Player – Linux music player built with Rust

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

Trix Player (or Trix) is a lightweight, high-performance music player written in Rust. Aimed at Linux users who favor the terminal

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Specifications

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux. I grill the laptop using the inxi tool.

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tmuzika – Terminal music player for Linux

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

tmuzika aims to offer quick and simple music playback directly in the terminal, with full keyboard control.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Hardware Review

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

The Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus positions itself as a lightweight, mid-range productivity machine that blends premium materials with good performance.

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basedpyright – fork of pyright

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Basedpyright is a fork of pyright with various type checking improvements, pylance features and more.

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Video Conversion

Leonardo – media conversion application

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Leonardo is a media conversion application that provides a graphical interface for converting audio and video files using FFmpeg.

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YouTube

Sunder – desktop YouTube music client

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Sunder is a native desktop music player that streams from YouTube without the bloat.

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Development Tools

18 Top Free and Open Source Rust Frontend Web Frameworks

March 8, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

Rust is a systems programming language that runs fast, prevents segmentation faults, and guarantees thread safety. We pick the best free Rust frontend web frameworks.

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SSD

MX Cleanup – GUI for system cleanup and maintenance

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

MX Cleanup is a graphical system maintenance utility that helps users reclaim disk space by removing unnecessary files from the system.

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Find Duplicates

6 Best Free GUI Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

We feature free and open source software that lets you find and remove the duplicate files.

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WiFi

Netpala – Golang based Wi-Fi manager

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Netpala is a lightweight (hopefully) terminal-friendly NetworkManager wrapper written in Go. It’s a clone of Impala.

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Emoji

14 Best Free and Open Source GUI Emoji Pickers

March 8, 2026 Erik Karlsson Other, Roundup, Utilities

An emoji is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages.

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Art

Mezzotone – convert images into ASCII art

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

Mezzotone is a TUI application that converts images and animated GIFs into ASCII or Unicode art directly from the command line.

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Files

23 Best Free and Open Source Linux TUI File Explorers

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup

A terminal UI based (TUI) file explorer is software which lets you explore the file system. We recommend the best open source options.

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SQL

squix – manage and execute SQL queries across multiple databases

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents, TUI

Squix is a minimal command-line database manager that allows users to manage connections and execute SQL queries across multiple databases.

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Programming Tools for Kids

Top 10 Programming Tools for Kids

March 8, 2026 Eilidih Parris Education, Programming, Roundup

The art of programming is often perceived as being a difficult activity. Here’s great free and open source tools to help kids start coding.

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Hard disk

Vykar – fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups in Rust

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, System Software, Web Apps

Vykar is a backup utility that creates encrypted, deduplicated snapshots of data and stores them in local or remote repositories.

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Performance

Top 13 Web Server Performance Testing Tools

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

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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Selection of utilities

xdgctl – TUI to manage XDG default applications

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

xdgctl is a terminal user interface that lets users view and manage XDG default applications and MIME associations on Linux systems.

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Application Launchers

29 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Application Launchers

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

Application launchers play an integral part in making the Linux desktop a more productive environment to work and play.

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WorkTUImer – keyboard-driven TUI for time-tracking

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

WorkTUImer is a simple, keyboard-driven TUI for time-tracking that allows you to quickly add time blocks.

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Music player

GoPlaying – TUI showing what’s playing

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

GoPlaying is a Now Playing TUI written in Go. Display currently playing music with album artwork and auto-extracted colors in your terminal.

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Application Launchers

4 Best Free and Open Source Linux TUI Application Launchers

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, TUI

Application launchers play an integral part in making the Linux desktop a more productive environment to work and play.

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Selection of utilities

RustLock – Wayland screen locker

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

RustLock is a command-line tool written in Rust that allows users to quickly lock their Linux session from the terminal.

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