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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Lumalarm – smart alarm clock that wakes your computer from sleep
Lumalarm is a Qt alarm clock that can suspend and wake your PC, with anti-oversleep challenges, timers, stopwatch and custom sounds.
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Talisman – detect sensitive data before Git commits
Talisman scans Git changesets for passwords, tokens, private keys and other sensitive data before they are committed or pushed.
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Kactus2 – graphical EDA tool based on the IP-XACT standard
Kactus2 is a graphical EDA tool for designing SoCs, packaging reusable IP, creating hardware hierarchies, and integrating hardware and software.
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Fedora Asahi Remix – Fedora Linux for Apple Silicon Macs
Fedora Asahi Remix brings Fedora Linux to Apple Silicon Macs with KDE Plasma, Wayland, hardware acceleration and integrated audio support.
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clock-rs – modern digital clock for your terminal
clock-rs is a configurable terminal clock with timer and stopwatch modes, flexible positioning, colours, date formatting and UTC support.
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17 Useful Free and Open Source Linux Column-Oriented Databases
A column-oriented database is a type of database management system that stores data on disk in columns rather than rows.
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typa – minimal terminal typing speed test
typa is a lightweight terminal typing test offering timed, word, quote, and code modes with detailed statistics and custom themes.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based MPD Clients
MPD is a powerful server-side application for playing music. Here’s our verdict on the finest web-based MPD clients.
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WHAD Client – Wireless Protocol Exploration Framework
WHAD Client is a command-line framework for capturing, analysing, replaying and experimenting with traffic from supported wireless devices and protocols.
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detect-secrets – detect and prevent secrets in source code
detect-secrets helps teams detect and prevent credentials from entering source code using baselines, plugins, filters and Git hooks.
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XicTools – electronic design and circuit simulation suite
XicTools is an electronic design suite featuring the Xic IC layout editor, WRspice circuit simulator, extraction tools, and more.
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Fluxion – Wireless Security Auditing Tool
Fluxion is a terminal-based security auditing tool for evaluating WPA and WPA2 network exposure through controlled captive-portal testing.
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Gitleaks – detect secrets in Git repositories and files
Gitleaks scans Git repositories, files and standard input for passwords, API keys, tokens and other hard-coded secrets in source code.
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hympd – simple responsive web interface for MPD
hympd is a lightweight responsive web interface for MPD with queue management, search, playback controls, themes and Vim-style navigation.
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15 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Podcast Tools
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 16 high quality open source GUI podcast tools. They offer an excellent way to manage and download podcasts.
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tenki – terminal clock with animated weather effects
tenki is a Rust terminal clock with animated rain, snow and meteor effects, configurable wind, colours and animation speed.
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