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podliner – terminal-based podcast player

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

podliner is a terminal-based podcast player. It’s cross-platform software that runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Linux Candy: ascii_moon – displays the moon phase

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, TUI

ascii_moon is a small TUI program that displays the moon phase in ASCII art. It’s a small single native binary.

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BOSGAME M6

BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux – BIOS

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the BOSGAME M6 Plus.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: December 2025 Updates

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms Software

December 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2025

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms Blog

I’ve trawled through our statistics and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2025.

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LinuxLinks.com reaches epic milestone

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms News

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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LinuxLinks – The Home of Linux

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Software

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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sqruff – SQL linter and formatter

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

sqruff is a fast SQL formatter/linter.

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Documents

xls – ls utility

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xls is a utility program for listing files.

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VHS – write terminal GIFs as code

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

vhs lets you write terminal GIFs as code for integration testing and demoing your CLI tools.

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ebook reader

6 Best Free and Open Source eBook Tools

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

An electronic book (commonly abbreviated e-book) is a text and image-based publication which can be read on a computer or other digital devices such as an e-book reader.

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98kalculator – scientific calculator

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

98kalculator is a fast, lightweight, and well-designed calculator built with Python and PyQt6.

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Clipboard

Waypin – sleek clipboard viewer

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Waypin is a sleek clipboard viewer for Wayland/X11 with GTK3.

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Coding

Seer – GUI frontend to GDB

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Seer aims to provide a simple yet attractive GUI frontend to GDB.

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Maths

CGSuite – computer algebra system

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

CGSuite is a computer algebra system for research in combinatorial game theory.

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Network

Nomad Network – mesh communication

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Nomad Network is off-grid, resilient mesh communication with strong encryption, forward secrecy and extreme privacy.

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Data Science

PsychoPy – create experiments in behavioural science

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

PsychoPy is an open-source package for creating experiments in behavioural science.

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Files

iris – config-driven file organizer

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iris helps you sort and organize your messy folders automatically using defined rules. It’s written in Rust.

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Best Free and Open Source Documentation Generators

Brief – browse command-line cheatsheets

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI

Brief is an app for browsing command-line cheatsheets written in Python, using GTK4 and Libadwaita.

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Find Duplicates

trxsh – trash manager

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trxsh is a simple and efficient command-line trash manager written in Go.

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Selection of utilities

prox – process manager

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

prox is a modern, powerful process manager with a beautiful Terminal User Interface (TUI). Inspired by pm2, built with Go and Bubbletea.

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PaaS

10 Best Free and Open Source PaaS Cloud Computing Stacks

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Along with Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), PaaS is a service model of cloud computing.

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Tools that help you

Outfieldr – TLDR client

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Outfieldr is a TLDR client written in Zig. TLDR offers an alternative to man pages.

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PaaS

Kubero – self-hosted PaaS

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Kubero is a self-hosted Platform as a Service that allows a developer to deploy their application on Kubernetes without specialized knowledge.

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Stacking Window Managers

24 Best Free and Open Source Stacking Window Managers

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

Stacking window managers (also known as floating window managers) draw all windows in a specific order, allowing them to overlap.

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