I test FastFlowLM on the BOSGAME VTA-439, running local LLMs on the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470’s 55 TOPS XDNA 2 NPU.
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5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Honeypot Tools
Explore free and open source honeypot tools for detecting attacks, analysing malware, capturing credentials, and monitoring threats.
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Best Free and Open Source CAPTCHA Tools
Discover the best free and open source CAPTCHA tools for privacy-friendly bot protection, including proof-of-work and self-hosted options.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Cloud Run
Explore the best free and open source alternatives to Google Cloud Run for deploying scalable serverless container workloads.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple iCloud Photos
Explore the best free and open source alternatives to Apple iCloud Photos, including Immich and Ente Photos.
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If AI Wrote Your Code, Just Say So
If AI plays a major role in developing open source software, users and contributors deserve to know. Transparency should include AI use.
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MINISFORUM M2 – Does Linux Schedule Panther Lake Correctly?
See how Linux schedules the MINISFORUM M2’s Panther Lake P-, E- and LP E-cores across single-threaded, bursty, FFmpeg and full-load tests.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Entra ID
Best free and open source alternatives to Microsoft Entra ID for identity management, SSO, authentication, access control and federation.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Substance 3D Designer
Best free and open source alternatives to Adobe Substance 3D Designer for procedural materials, textures and node-based authoring.
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NPBackup – secure and efficient file backup solution
NPBackup adds a GUI, scheduling, monitoring and multi-repository management to restic’s encrypted, deduplicated backup engine.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Recursive DNS Resolvers
Discover the best free and open source recursive DNS resolvers for secure, private and reliable domain name lookups.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google reCAPTCHA
Discover the best free and open source alternatives to Google reCAPTCHA for protecting websites from bots, spam and automated abuse.
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5 Best Free and Open Source Earth Observation and Ocean Science Tools
Discover the best free and open source tools for Earth observation, remote sensing, ocean science, satellite data and simulation.
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Beelink EQi 304 Mini PC – NPU and Llama
I test the Beelink EQi Core 3 304’s 15-TOPS Intel NPU with OpenVINO and Llama 3.2 1B to see how useful modest NPUs really are.
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Revisited: SparkPlayer – visually appealing media player now with gapless playback
SparkPlayer adds gapless playback for seamless album listening, alongside visualizers, album art, video support and broad format compatibility.
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WyrmRSS – RSS and Atom feed reader
WyrmRSS is a free and open source RSS and Atom feed reader with desktop and self-hosted options, feed filtering and YouTube support.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Internet Information Services
Discover the best free and open source alternatives to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), including Apache, nginx and Caddy.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Linux Web-Based Discord Tools
Discover the best free and open source Discord clients and modifications for Linux, offering plugins, themes, privacy features and more.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Climate, Weather and Earth-Science Data Analysis Tools
Explore the best free and open source tools for climate, weather and Earth-science data analysis, visualisation and scientific workflows.
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Linux: Software, Distros & Hardware
Explore Linux software, distributions, hardware, games, guides and open source alternatives, curated and reviewed by LinuxLinks.
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50 Excellent GNOME Shell Extensions for GNOME 50
Discover 50 excellent open source GNOME Shell extensions compatible with GNOME 50, covering docks, tiling, monitoring and customization.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: August 2026 Updates
August 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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12 Best Free and Open Source Wireless Security Tools
Wireless security is the prevention of unauthorized access or damage to computers or data using wireless networks, which include Wi-Fi networks.
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GDownloader – GUI for yt-dlp, gallery-dl and spotDL
GDownloader is a graphical frontend for yt-dlp, gallery-dl and spotDL with batch downloads, playlists, hardware transcoding, and automatic updates.
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Aprelendo – learn vocabulary from real content
Aprelendo is a self-hosted language-learning platform for reading and watching real content, building contextual vocabulary, and reviewing words.
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TRIP – self-hosted POI map tracker and trip planner
TRIP is a self-hosted travel planner for mapping points of interest, building itineraries, sharing trips, and managing travel details.
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WartRemover – flexible Scala code linter
WartRemover is a flexible Scala linter that uses compiler plugins and configurable warts to reject unsafe, surprising or undesirable code.
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Piccolo – modern GTK color picker
Piccolo is a GTK and Libadwaita color picker with screen sampling, flexible color formats, history, keyboard navigation, and an adaptive interface.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Linux GIS Software
A Geographic Information System (GIS) is software designed to capture, manage, analyse, and visualise geographically referenced data.
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SafeBucket – on-premises file sharing platform
SafeBucket is a self-hosted file sharing platform with direct storage transfers, public links, RBAC, OIDC, MFA, auditing and pluggable infrastructure.
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5 Best Free and Open Source Character Map Tools
A character map allows you to view and access the characters in a particular font. We select the best ones for Linux.
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perl-lsp – language server for Perl
perl-lsp is a Perl language server with type inference, completion, navigation, refactoring, diagnostics and command-line analysis tools.
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4 Useful Free and Open Source systemd GUI Configuration Tools
systemd is a Linux init system and system manager that’s used by most modern Linux distributions. We pick our favourite GUI tools.
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Scapegoat – static code analysis for Scala
Scapegoat is a Scala static code analyser that flags bugs, questionable constructs and style problems through configurable compiler inspections.
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OpenCTI Community Edition – cyber threat intelligence knowledge platform
OpenCTI Community Edition structures and visualises cyber threat intelligence with STIX, a knowledge graph, connectors and a GraphQL API.
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Directory Checksum – recursively hash directory contents
Directory Checksum recursively hashes directory contents to identify changes and help diagnose Docker, BuildKit, and other OCI build-cache issues.
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Scalafix – refactoring and linting tool for Scala
Scalafix is a Scala refactoring and linting tool with syntactic and semantic rules for checking, rewriting and modernising source code.
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20 Best Free and Open Source Linux Astronomical Data Analysis Tools
Astronomy is a branch of science that deals with the study of celestial objects (including stars, planets, moons, comets, asteroids…).
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elbencho – distributed storage benchmark
elbencho is a distributed storage benchmark measuring latency, throughput and IOPS across file systems, object stores, block devices and GPUs.
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Zarn – static security analysis for Perl applications
Zarn is a lightweight Perl static security analysis tool using AST inspection and taint tracking to identify possible vulnerabilities.
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Kazeta – cartridge-based gaming Linux distribution
Kazeta is an immutable Linux gaming distribution that turns DRM-free games on removable media into physical-style cartridges.
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