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Bitcoin

cryptofetch – cryptocurrency tool

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Financial, Reviews

cryptofetch is a terminal-based tool in the style of neofetch that displays cryptocurrency prices and statistics.

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Internet Radio

Transistor – GUI internet radio player

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Reviews

Transistor is a GUI internet radio player for Linux written in C++. It’s impressive to say the least!

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OrangePi SBC ARM

Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer running Linux: Ubuntu

January 19, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article I explore running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the Orange Pi 6 Plus single board computer.

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Coding

3 Useful Free and Open Source Kotlin Code Formatters

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This roundup selects some useful code formatters for Kotlin developers. Only free and open source software is included.

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4 Useful Free and Open Source Kotlin Linters

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This article picks some useful tools to help you fix Kotlin code. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Fractal Art – desktop wallpaper generator

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

Fractal Art is software which generates colorful wallpapers. It’s free and open source software written in Haskell.

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BOSGAME M6

BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux – Fan Noise

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Fan noise can ruin my enjoyment of using a computer. In this article I report my findings on the BOSGAME M6 Mini PC.

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Internet Radio

goradion – command line radio player

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Reviews, TUI

goradion is a TUI internet radio player for Linux. It uses mpv as its playback engine.

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Minisforum UM890 Pro

Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: BIOS

January 13, 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 Minisforum UM890 Pro.

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Music

Musicat – desktop music player

January 12, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Musicat is billed as a sleek music player for your local music library. It supports MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, and OGG formats.

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Coding

3 Useful Free and Open Source R Linters

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This article picks some useful tools to help you fix R code.

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14 Useful Free and Open Source CSS Parsers

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

A CSS parser is a component of a web browser (or any CSS-processing tool) that reads CSS code and turns it into a structured format.

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OrangePi SBC ARM

Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer running Linux: Power Consumption

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Orange Pi 6 Plus comparing it to other machines.

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Podcast

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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Xmas

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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Coding

Odin – programming language

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Odin is a programming language with distinct typing, built for high performance, modern systems, and built-in data-oriented data types.

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Image of Files

Lacy – cd alternative

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Lacy is a cd alternative that makes navigating much more efficient.

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Static Site Generators

6 Best Free and Open Source Haskell Static Site Generators

January 21, 2026 Eilidih Parris Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

We have compiled a list of 5 best Haskell static site generators. All of these tools are released under a freely distributable license.

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CSS

Ratatui – create terminal user interfaces

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Ratatui is a Rust crate for cooking up TUIs. It provides a simple and flexible way to create text-based user interfaces.

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Static Site Generator

Bark – static site generator

January 21, 2026 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Bark is a Haskell static site generator intended to be dead simple, yet extensible enough to allow plugins and templates.

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Bitcoin

5 Best Free and Open Source Tools to Track Cryptocurrencies

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Financial, Roundup

We recommend tools that let you monitor cryptocurrencies.

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JSON Tools

jiq – interactive JSON query tool

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

jiq is an interactive JSON query tool with real-time output.

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Static Site Generator

Zensical – modern static site generator

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

Zensical is a modern static site generator designed to simplify building and maintaining project documentation.

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Flashcards

repeater – CLI flashcard program

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms Education, TUI

repeater is a command-line flashcard program that uses spaced repetition to boost your memory retention.

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Git Clients

gohome – Git standup and activity reporting CLI

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

gohome automates your daily status reporting by recursively scanning your workspace to find git repositories.

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Compositing Window Managers

20 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Wayland Compositors

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on tiling Wayland compositors. We only feature free and open source software in this roundup.

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Application Launchers

Teabag – manage AppImage files

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Teabag is a Terminal User Interface (TUI) application built with Bubble Tea to manage AppImage files.

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postcss-bem-linter – BEM linter for PostCSS

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

BEM-style describes CSS that follows a more-or-less strict set of conventions determining what selectors can be used.

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SQL

sqlfmt – SQL formatter

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

sqlfmt formats your dbt SQL files. It is similar in nature to black, gofmt, and rustfmt (but for SQL).

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Selection of utilities

Lemurs – TUI display/login manager

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

Lemurs is a Terminal User Interface (TUI) Display/Login Managers written in Rust that works on most Linux and BSD distributions.

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Selection of utilities

beekeeper-qt – deduplicate redundant data

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

beekeeper-qt lets you free up disk space by removing redundant block-level data, both inside files and across multiple files.

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Compositing Window Managers

Volare – Wayland compositor

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Volare is a tabbed, tiling Wayland compositor written in the C language

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Network

Realm – simple relay server

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Realm is a simple, high performance relay server.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: traceroute

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. We recommend the best alternatives.

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