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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BizHawk – multi-system emulator
BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. It also has recording/playback and debugging tools.
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Nekobox – GUI proxy utility
Nekobox is a cross-platform GUI proxy utility powered by Sing-box. It supports Linux and Windows.
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Golazo – follow football games
Golazo is a minimalist terminal user interface (TUI) for following football matches in real-time.
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nak – nostr army knife
nak is the nostr army knife command-line tool. This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
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PixelTerm-C – terminal image viewer
PixelTerm-C is a high-performance terminal image browser written in C, based on the Chafa library.
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fuss – quick staging dirty git files
fuss is an interactive tree utility for complete git workflows, written in modern Fortran.
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dirmap – tool for generating a directory map
dirmap is a tool for generating a directory map.
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lux – package manager for Lua
lux is a luxurious package manager for Lua.
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Dove – configuration and modifications for Mozilla Thunderbird
Dove is a suite of configurations & advanced modifications for Mozilla Thunderbird, designed to put the user first
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kirill – JSON validator
kirill scans projects large and small for JSON correctness.
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xLights – sequencer for lights
xLights is a sequencer to design, create and play lighting displays through the use of DMX controllers, E1.31 Ethernet controllers and more.
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Redress – tool for analyzing stripped binaries
The redress software is a tool for analyzing stripped Go binaries compiled with the Go compiler.
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Stryde – application launcher
Stryde is an application launcher that’s in an early stage of development.
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ck – semantic code search
ck (seek) finds code by meaning, not just keywords. It’s grep that understands what you’re looking for
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Prog8 – structured programming language
Prog8 is a structured programming language for the 8-bit 6502/6510/65c02 microprocessor from the late 1970’s and 1980’s
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termframe – terminal output SVG screenshot tool
This tool is a non-interactive terminal emulator that executes a single command, renders its output in an internal virtual session, and exports a screenshot as an SVG file.
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buf – flash ISOs to create bootable USB drives
buf is a command-line utility for flashing ISOs to create bootable USB drives.
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demongrep – fast, local semantic code search
Search your codebase using natural language queries like “where do we handle authentication?” — all running locally with no API calls.
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