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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 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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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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Sidekiq – simple efficient background jobs for Ruby

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Sidekiq is a popular, high-performance background job processing framework for Ruby, commonly used in Ruby on Rails applications

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MapWizard – tool for osu! beatmap editing

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

MapWizard is a modern tool for osu! beatmap editing, designed to streamline your workflow with features like hitsound transfer.

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MARKTerm – render Markdown in a terminal

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Markterm is a library and program to render Markdown to a terminal. It’s inspired by Glow and implemented using Markd.

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HelixNotes – local-first Markdown note-taking app

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

HelixNotes is a local-first markdown note-taking app built with Tauri, SvelteKit, and Rust.

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Tiny RDM – Redis desktop manager

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Tiny RDM is a modern lightweight cross-platform Redis desktop manager available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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RVVM – RISC-V virtual machine

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

RVVM is a virtual machine / emulator for RISC-V guests, which emphasizes on performance, security, lean code and portability.

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Chatuino – Twitch chat client for the terminal

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Chatuino is a Twitch chat client gives you a native experience without the browser overhead.

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Impala – TUI for managing wifi on Linux

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Impala is TUI software for managing WiFi. Written in Rust.

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5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Flickr Tools

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Internet, Roundup

This article focuses on selecting the best small Linux utilities that support Flickr integration. These tools help users to edit, tag, download and upload images to and from a Linux computer and the Flickr service.

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File Managers

ffsend – securely share files from the command line

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ffsend lets you easily and securely share files and directories from the command line.

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Development Tools

10 Top Free and Open Source Lisp Web Frameworks

February 25, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

A web framework offers the developer a choice about how to solve a specific problem. Here’s our recommended Lisp frameworks.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cloc

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative free and open source tools to cloc, a tool which counts lines of source code and comments.

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9 Best Free and Open Source Tools to Search the Filesystem

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

Desktop search is a software application which searches the contents of computer files, rather than searching the internet.

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Batch Renamers

renux – terminal-based bulk file renamer

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

renux is a tool with a text-based (terminal) user interface (TUI) that automates file renaming.

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CLOCTUI – TUI for CLOC

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

CLOCTUI is a terminal user interface (TUI) for the CLOC code analysis tool, built using the Textual framework.

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FLI – simplifies AWS VPC Flow Logs analysis

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

FLI is a powerful command-line tool that simplifies AWS VPC Flow Logs analysis with intuitive commands, smart filtering, and more.

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babi – text editor

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

babi is a console-based text editor that’s written in the Python language.

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Application Launchers

AppManager – install and uninstall AppImages

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

AppManager is a GTK/Libadwaita developed desktop utility in Vala that makes installing and uninstalling AppImages on Linux desktop painless.

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