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Coding

6 Best Free and Open Source Haskell Linter Tools

October 30, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

A linter is a tool used to analyze source code for potential errors, stylistic issues, and adherence to coding standards.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: Dual Booting Bluetooth Issues

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Having an issue with Bluetooth when dual booting? I look at an easy fix for the Minisforum AI X1 Pro mini PC.

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Smartphone

Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Music Recognition

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, Ubuntu Touch

Music Recognition is a free and open source application for Ubuntu Touch that that provides a similar function to Shazam.

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Ethernet

BrosTrend 8 Port 2.5GB Switch Review

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

The BrosTrend 8 Port 2.5GB Switch retails for £50. It’s an inexpensive way to upgrade your local network for faster transfers. Here’s my review.

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Machine Learning

7 Best Free and Open Source Image Upscaling Tools

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

Image upscaling brings the power of AI upscaling to your fingertips, allowing you to turn low-resolution images into high-quality outputs.

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Coding

9 Useful Free and Open Source JavaScript Linter Tools

October 25, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

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

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System administration

13 Useful Free and Open Source DNS Tools

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

This roundup selects a motley collection of useful DNS tools.

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Linux at Home - Circuit Design with Linux

The Tradeoff between Silence and Power with Mini PCs

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Fan noise can ruin my enjoyment of using a computer. In this article I report my findings on three modern mini PCs.

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Internet Radio

Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Internet Radio

October 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Hardware, Internet, Mini PC, Multimedia

We maintain a roundup of the finest internet radio software. Let’s take a look at the top entries from a Raspberry Pi 5 perspective.

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Smartphone

Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch: Upgrading to Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0

October 21, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Phone, Reviews

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 is the first release of Ubuntu Touch that’s based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, a major upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04.

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BOSGAME M4 Plus

BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC: AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS has 8 cores, 16 threads and is competitive against newer processors from AMD and Intel.

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Food and Drink Software

10 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based Food and Drink Software

October 18, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Web Apps

This roundup focuses on the finest web-based food and drink software for Linux.

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BOSGAME M4 Plus

BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC running Linux: Power Consumption

October 16, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I put the BOSGAME M4 Plus under a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.

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Linux Chess Apps

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Chess Apps

October 16, 2025 Steve Emms Games, Roundup

Chess is a recreational and competitive board game played between two players. It’s a very popular game, played by millions across the world.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

Survey of Image Upscaling Tools on the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Linux has lots of software with upscaling functionality, some of which offers a wider range of features than the GIMP AI plugin.

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ONLYOFFICE

ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.1 released: advanced PDF tools, faster formulas, and various suite-wide improvements

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms Office

ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.1 brings a significant upgrade.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Ubuntu 25.10

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I look at a few issues I’ve experienced when upgrading to Ubuntu 25.10.

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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Music Player

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, GUI, Hardware, Mini PC, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

Let’s play some music on the Raspberry Pi 5. It’s a very capable music player.

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Coding

5 Best Free and Open Source Go Linter Tools

October 12, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

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

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File Managers

15 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based Linux File Managers

October 11, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Web Apps

A file manager is software which provides a user interface to assist in the organisation of files. It helps users manage their files.

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Cloud storage

14 Best Free and Open Source Self-Hosted Cloud Storage Tools

October 10, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

This roundup looks at self-hosted cloud storage solutions.

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BOSGAME M4 Plus

Benchmarking the BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC

October 8, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The BOSGAME M4 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS with integrated Radeon 780M. I put it through various benchmark tests.

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ROCK 4D

Radxa ROCK 4D Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption

October 7, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Radxa ROCK 4D single-board computer.

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BOSGAME M4 Plus

BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC running Linux: Introduction to the Series

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC is a powerful computer based on an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS processor with integrated Radeon 780M graphics.

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Radxa Cubie A7A single board computer

Radxa Cubie A7A Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Radxa Cubie A7A.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: September 2025 Updates

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

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

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Lucas Chess

ChessMD – lightweight PGN database viewer and analysis tool

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI, Reviews

ChessMD is a free and open source lightweight PGN database viewer and analysis tool. Here’s my verdict on this software.

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NPU Blog

AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 NPU in Linux: Gaia – Run LLM Agents

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Gaia is open source software designed for the quick setup and execution of generative AI applications on local PC hardware.

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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Mapping Tools

September 28, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

This roundup includes mapping software which offers quick access to maps all across the world. We also include some specialised tools.

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NPU Blog

AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 NPU in Linux: Introduction

September 26, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This blog documents my adventures with using the NPU present in the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 in Linux.

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Music

Euphonica – MPD client with delusions of grandeur

September 25, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Euphonica is an MPD client with a GTK4 interface. It sports an integrated spectrum visualiser, metadata downloading and more.

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Linux Distributions

Active Linux Distributions

September 24, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

A distro provides the user with a desktop environment, preloaded applications, and ways to update and maintain the system.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro: Gerbil – Run Large Language Models Locally

September 24, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Gerbil is a desktop app to easily run Large Language Models locally. The software is powered by KoboldCpp, a fork of llama.cpp.

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Radxa Cubie A7A single board computer

Benchmarking the Radxa Cubie A7A Single Board Computer

September 23, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series I put the Radxa Cubie A7A single board computer through a series of benchmarks.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

September 22, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 came to market in the third quarter of 2024. It has 12 cores and 24 threads, with 4 Zen 5 cores, and 8 Zen 5c cores.

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Music

9 Useful Free and Open Source Scrobbler Tools

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

Scrobbling is the process of automatically tracking and recording the music you listen to, sending the data to a service.

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ROCK 4D

Benchmarking the Radxa ROCK 4D Single Board Computer

September 18, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series I put the Radxa ROCK 4D single board computer through a series of benchmarks.

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Smartphone

Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch: Waydroid battery life

September 17, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Reviews

Waydroid is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on Ubuntu Touch running Wayland based desktop environments.

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Linux Distributions

Radxa OS – Debian-based Linux distribution

September 17, 2025 Steve Emms Distro

Radxa OS, or Radxa, is an open source operating system developed by the Radxa team based on the Debian Linux distribution.

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Radxa Cubie A7A single board computer

Radxa Cubie A7A Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction to the Series

September 16, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Radxa Cubie A7A is billed as an ultra-compact yet feature-rich SBC designed to deliver powerful performance in space-constrained environments.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro: ComfyUI – Generate video, images, 3D, audio with AI

September 15, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews, Scientific

Let’s start with ComfyUI, open source node-based software for generative AI. I install ROCm, ComfyUI and a useful model manager.

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Machine Learning

Minisforum AI X1 Pro: Jan – Chat with AI without privacy concerns

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews, Scientific

A simple real-world test of the performance of the Radeon 890M with Jan, an open source ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline.

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ROCK 4D

Radxa ROCK 4D Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction to the Series

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This series looks at the Radxa ROCK 4D single board computer. It’s billed as a high-performance SBC for Edge AI and 4K multimedia.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: Power Consumption

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I put the Minisforum AI X1 Pro mini PC under a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: GIMP AI Plugins

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I’m exploring GIMP AI plugins for the Arc 140T. These provide a set of OpenVINO based plugins that add AI features to GIMP.

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Smartphone

Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch: Linux Desktop Applications

September 8, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Phone, Reviews

Libertine is a confined sandbox where you can install deb-packaged desktop-based Ubuntu applications on the Volla Quintus.

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6 Useful Free and Open Source Linux WhatsApp Clients

September 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Roundup

WhatsApp is a popular, free messaging, social media, and voice-over-IP service that lets users send text, voice messages, and video messages

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Music sketch

mtoc – visually-rich music player and library browser

September 5, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

mtoc (music table of contents) is billed as a visually-rich music player and library browser. It’s written in C++ and built with Qt, TagLib and GStreamer.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Benchmarking the Minisforum AI X1 Pro

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The Minisforum AI X1 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with integrated Radeon 890M.

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K100

Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS running Linux: Power Consumption

September 3, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, NAS, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS.

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Smartphone

Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch: Pre-installed apps

September 2, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Reviews

I explore the apps already present on the Volla Phone Quintus, a premium smartphone running Ubuntu Touch.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: Introduction to the Series

September 1, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The machine has the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor with integrated Radeon 890M. This is no ordinary processor and no ordinary integrated GPU.

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15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Ham Radio Tools

August 30, 2025 Steve Emms Other, Roundup

Ham radio is a popular hobby and service bringing people, electronics and communication together. We pick our favorite ham radio tools.

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Video Conversion

14 Best Free and Open Source Linux Video Converters

August 30, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

The best video converters make the process simple, and support a wide number of different codecs and formats.

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Shell prompt

7 Best Free and Open Source Zsh Configuration Frameworks

August 29, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

We highly recommend installing a framework with Zsh as it makes dealing with configuration, plugins and themes a lot more straightforward.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Intel Core Ultra 7 Processor 255H

August 27, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The NUC BOX-255H has the mobile/embedded class 15th generation Intel Core 7 255H processor, based on the Arrow Lake architecture.

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Radxa Rock 5T

Radxa ROCK 5T Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption

August 26, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Radxa ROCK 5T single-board computer.

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August 25, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Software

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Smartphone

Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch: Introduction to the Series

August 25, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Phone, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch. This phone sports a powerful Mediatek Dimensity 7050 with 8 cores and 8GB of RAM.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: OpenVINO AI Plugins for Audacity

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Multimedia, Reviews

The plugins provide AI-enabled effects, generators and analyzers. I can run them on the NUC Box-255H with no internet connection needed.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Stable Diffusion

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In the series I’m going to explore the GPU capabilities of the machine covering AI and gaming. Let’s start with deep learning.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Power Consumption

August 15, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series I’m looking at the power consumption of the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

Benchmarking the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H

August 13, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article I’ll benchmark the machine. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite, unless otherwise stated.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Introduction to the series

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is a series of articles looking at the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H. In this series, I examine every aspect of this Mini PC in detail.

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Voice Recognition

hyprwhspr – native speech-to-text

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

hyprwhspr is a native speech-to-text designed for Arch / Omarchy. It aims to provide fast, accurate and easy system-wide dictation.

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Karaoke

Karapulse – karaoke player

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Karapulse is a Linux karaoke player supporting CDG/MP3 as well as video files.

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Reference Managers

bibman – CLI/TUI bibliography manager

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, GUI

bibman is a CLI/TUI bibliography manager. It does not use a database but stores every bibliographic entry as a separate text file.

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sshtool – simple interactive SSH session manager

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

sshtool is a simple interactive SSH session manager with encrypted configuration storage using GPG.

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Audio Analyzers

20 Best Free and Open Source Audio Analyzers

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

This article examines audio analyzers. This type of software lets you visualize audio spectrum for real-time signals. Some of the programs also lets you analyze amplitude and phase spectrum as well.

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Linux Distributions

Alien-OS – Debian-based Linux distribution

October 30, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

Alien-OS is a German Linux distribution based on Debian. The distro uses the Regolith Desktop Environment

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Machine Learning in Linux

Shimmy – lightweight OpenAI API server

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Shimmy is a 4.8MB single-binary that provides 100% OpenAI-compatible endpoints for GGUF models.

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d77void – respin of Void Linux with window managers

October 29, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

d77void is a respin of Void Linux, created to demonstrate the capabilities of Void’s tools, such as void-mklive and void-packages.

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Diary

9 Best Free and Open Source Diary Software

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

This article identifies flexible and useful diary tools for the Linux desktop. Free and open source software only.

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