Lolcat++ is a rewrite of lolcat. The original is written in Ruby, whereas this rewrite is coded in the C++ language.
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Lightning Image Viewer – fast and lightweight desktop image viewer
Lightning Image Viewer (LIV) is billed as a desktop image (previewer) with some notable UX features.
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7 Useful Free and Open Source S3 File Systems and Tools
This roundup focuses on software that turns S3 into a convenient file system. We also include a few useful S3 utilities.
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5 Useful Free and Open Source TUI Notes Apps
There is a wide range of competent note taking software for Linux. This article focuses on apps that have a Text User Interface (TUI).
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cull – reclaim precious disk space
cull is a program written in Go that helps you clean up your system. It’s a lovely small utility. Give it a whirl!
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NoctaVox – TUI music player for local music
NoctaVox recently caught my attention. It’s billed as a lightweight, plug and play TUI music player for local music.
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3 Useful Free and Open Source Haskell TUI Frameworks
The software featured in this roundup helps developers create TUI programs. All the software featured is written in Haskell.
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3 Useful Free and Open Source YAML Code Formatters
This roundup selects some useful code formatters for YAML developers.
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Linux Candy: sigye – terminal clock
sigye is a terminal clock with ASCII art fonts. The name “sigye” (시계) means “clock” in Korean. It also offers Pomodoro functionality
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Ampere – lightweight music player
Ampere is a GUI-based playlist-based audio player written in Python and Qt. It’s free and open source software.
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ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: BIOS
In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H.
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Pipeline – watch YouTube and PeerTube videos
Access YouTube content without using a web browser. Pipeline goes one step further by letting you also view PeerTube content.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2026 Updates
January 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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5 Useful Free and Open Source Rust TUI frameworks
The software featured in this roundup helps developers create TUI programs. All the software featured is written in Rust.
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Linux Candy: asciify – turn images into attractive ASCII art
asciify is a CLI tool that converts images into ASCII art. It’s part of our Linux Candy series.
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Volla Phone Quintus running Volla OS: Introduction to the Series
This series looks at Volla OS, an Android operating system which has been de-googled. All your data is yours.
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Hummingbird – modern music player
Hummingbird is a cross-platform Rust-based music player with basic functionality already implemented. It’s worth checking out!
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Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: BIOS
In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the Minisforum AI X1 Pro.
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Site Updates: Our Plans
I’m delighted to discuss our updated plans with the Linux community!
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13 Best Free and Open Source GUI-Based Calendar Software
You don’t need a proprietary hosted solution for your calendar needs. There are open source projects offering a perfect fit.
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BablerEdit – desktop translation editor
BablerEdit is a modern, open-source desktop translation editor for managing multi-language localization files.
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Open Gamepad UI – game launcher and overlay
Open Gamepad UI is a game launcher and overlay written using the Godot Game Engine 4 designed with a gamepad native experience in mind.
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Rip Rip Hooray! – specialized audio CD-ripper
Rip Rip Hooray! is a specialized audio CD-ripper optimized for track recovery.
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5 Best Free and Open Source C++ Application Servers
An application server is computer software which provides the business logic for an application program. Here’s our recommended C++ servers.
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Kanha – web-app pentesting suite
With kanha you can do Fuzzing, Reverse dns lookup, common http response, subdomain takeover detection and many more.
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CNCjs – web-based interface for CNC milling controller
CNCjs is a full-featured web-based interface for CNC controllers running Grbl, Marlin, Smoothieware, or TinyG.
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Ratado – keyboard-driven terminal task manager
Ratado is a fast, keyboard-driven terminal task manager built with Rust and Ratatui.
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Soundboardd – small local soundboard daemon
Soundboardd is a small local soundboard daemon that preloads audio files from a configuration file and plays them on request.
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typtea – terminal-based typing speed tester
typtea is a minimal terminal-based typing speed tester with support for dozens of programming languages.
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tmpo – minimal CLI time tracker for developers
tmpo is a lightweight, developer-friendly time tracking tool designed to integrate seamlessly with your terminal workflow.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Key Value Stores for Big Data
This article recommends the best free and open source software key value stores for Big Data.
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CSharpier – opinionated code formatter for C# and XML.
CSharpier is an opinionated code formatter for C# and XML. It parses your code and re-prints it using its own rules.
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ClockTemp – TUI clock
ClockTemp is a TUI clock inspired by tty-clock that displays the time, date, temperature and more.
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corner – terminal-based task journal for developers
corner is a terminal-based task journal for developers. Capture ideas without leaving your workflow, find them when you need them.
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8 Top Free and Open Source Dart Web Frameworks
Dart is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented, class defined, garbage-collected, scripting language using a C-style syntax that transcompiles optionally into JavaScript.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: grep
This article spotlights alternative tools to grep, a utility that searches for patterns in each file.
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Jaspr – modern web framework for building websites in Dart
Jaspr is a modern web framework for building websites in Dart. Supports client-side and server-side rendering, and static site generation.
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krep – optimized string search utility
krep is an optimized string search utility designed for maximum throughput and efficiency when processing large files and directories.
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