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Visual diff and merge tool.
Meld helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and has support for many popular version control systems.
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A Wayland layer-shell logout prompt, now ported to GTK4! A fork of wlogout with a bunch of quality-of-life features.
CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Object Pascal. It is open source project and can be used free of charge, even for business. It starts quite fast: ~0.3 sec with ~30 plugins, on Linux on CPU Intel Core i3 3GHz. It is extensible by Python add-ons: plugins, linters, code tree parsers, external tools. Syntax parser is feature-rich, from EControl engine.
Select an operating system and let Boxes download and install it for you in a virtual machine.
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Light-weight control pane to run CLI coding agents(Claude Code, Codex) in parallel.
A desktop terminal application for running multiple CLI coding agents simultaneously, each in isolated git worktrees.
This manual describes how to install, use and extend NixOS, a Linux distribution based on the purely functional package management system Nix, that is composed using modules and packages defined in the Nixpkgs project.
a better way to work with systemd units.
Simplify systemd management with isd! isd is a TUI offering fuzzy search for units, auto-refreshing previews, smart sudo handling, and a fully customizable interface for power-users and newcomers alike.
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📦 Lightweight, ephemeral, sandboxes for Linux.
Create lightweight sandboxes for Linux with host isolation, rootfs images, and networking.
Microbox is a sandbox runtime that creates ephemeral and isolated execution environments on Linux by combining specific kernel features such as namespaces, cgroups, seccomp, and capabilities. It provides lightweight sandboxes to run container-like applications securely.
Retroshare establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on Android, Linux, MacOS and Windows. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service.
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The Ultimate Desktop Companion for Your Immich Server.
ImmichSafe is a user-friendly, cross-platform desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux, designed to simplify the management, backup, and restoration of your self-hosted Immich photo and video management server. It provides a graphical user interface for complex Docker commands, making Immich administration accessible to everyone.
More than an edge OS . The immutable Linux meta-distribution for edge Kubernetes.
Transform your Linux system and preferred Kubernetes distribution into a secure bootable image for your edge devices.
With Kairos you can build immutable, bootable Kubernetes and OS images for your edge devices as easily as writing a Dockerfile. Optional P2P mesh with distributed ledger automates node bootstrapping and coordination. Updating nodes is as easy as CI/CD: push a new image to your container registry and let secure, risk-free A/B atomic upgrades do the rest. Kairos is part of the Secure Edge-Native Architecture (SENA) to securely run workloads at the Edge.
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speak into any text field.
A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.
Handy is a cross-platform desktop application built with Tauri (Rust + React/TypeScript) that provides simple, privacy-focused speech transcription. Press a shortcut, speak, and have your words appear in any text field—all without sending your voice to the cloud.
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Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software 🖥️ 📸. Open Source Screenshot Software.
Flameshot is a free and open-source, cross-platform tool to take screenshots with many built-in features to save you time.
Stress-Terminal UI, s-tui, monitors CPU temperature, frequency, power and utilization in a graphical way from the terminal.
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Compress your pictures up to 90% without visible quality loss.
Caesium is an image compression software that helps you store, send and share digital pictures, supporting JPG, PNG, WebP and TIFF formats. You can quickly reduce the file size (and resolution, if you want) by preserving the overall quality of the image.
Audio Production Without Limits.
REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for computers, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset.
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User-friendly SSH Connection Manager.
SSH Pilot is a user-friendly, lightweight SSH connection manager with an integrated terminal and SFTP client.
No more memorizing host aliases or complex SSH commands to manage your machines, deploy keys or set up port forwarding.
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Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, and Fedora based Webtop images, Linux in a web browser supporting popular desktop environments.
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Linux Patch Monitoring made Simple.
PatchMon provides centralized patch management across diverse server environments. Agents communicate outbound-only to the PatchMon server, eliminating inbound ports on monitored hosts while delivering comprehensive visibility and safe automation.
KVM Management, Reimagined. Lightweight tool for managing linux virtual machines.
A single <11MB binary with a modern Web UI, CLI, and API for KVM. No XML. No bloat. Just VMs.
Containers and Kubernetes.
The best free and open source tool for developers to work with containers and Kubernetes. Simplify container management, streamline Kubernetes workflows, and transition from local development to production with ease.
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Linux shell for iOS.
A project to get a Linux shell running on iOS, using usermode x86 emulation and syscall translation.
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Tails is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship.
Tails uses the Tor network to protect your privacy online and help you avoid censorship.
Open source Dropbox client
Maestral is a lightweight Dropbox client for macOS and Linux. It provides powerful command line tools, supports gitignore patterns to exclude local files from syncing and allows syncing multiple Dropbox accounts.
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A modern GUI for yt-dlp (and other youtube-dl forks).
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A sane distributed file system.
9P is a network protocol developed at Bell Labs for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs distributed operating system as the means of accessing and manipulating resources and applications transparently in a distributed environment. 9P works both as a distributed file system and as a network transparent and language agnostic ‘API’.
Run Windows Apps on Linux with Seamless Integration.
WinBoat is an Electron app which allows you to run Windows apps on Linux using a containerized approach. Windows runs as a VM inside a Docker container, we communicate with it using the WinBoat Guest Server to retrieve data we need from Windows. For compositing applications as native OS-level windows, we use FreeRDP together with Windows's RemoteApp protocol.
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installs your linux software.
Nixite generates a bash script to automatically install all your Linux software unattendedly. Nixite prevents prompts and picks the best installation method. Nixite supports Ubuntu-based systems and Arch-based systems. Nixite installs a nixite-updater script to update all package managers and software at once.
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Mods and Community. Modding made easy.
Auto-install hundreds of mods to get next-level graphics, new gameplay and endless amounts of new content.
Screenshot capture utility.
Spectacle is a screenshot taking utility for the KDE desktop. Spectacle can also be used in non-KDE X11 desktop environments.
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Restart a Linux server made of a potato laptop after power outages.
WakeMyPotato (WMP) is a simple and last-resort systemd Linux service to keep your old potato laptop alive and running in the event of a power failure.
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an open-source Remote Desktop Protocol server.
xrdp provides a graphical login to remote machines using RDP (Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol). xrdp accepts connections from variety of RDP clients: FreeRDP, rdesktop, NeutrinoRDP and Microsoft Remote Desktop Client (for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android).
Run any GUI app in the terminal❗
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A modern network scanner for GNOME.
A modern libadwaita-based network scanner for GNOME that helps you discover devices on your local network.
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ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical adventure and role-playing games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed! ScummVM is a complete rewrite of these games' executables and is not an emulator.
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Emulator of retro x86-based machines.
86Box is a low level x86 emulator that runs older operating systems and software designed for IBM PC systems and compatibles from 1981 through fairly recent system designs based on the PCI bus.
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An open source anti-detect browser with robust fingerprint injection. 🦊 A stealthy, minimalistic, custom build of Firefox for web scraping 🦊
The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux).
Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple (or your Linux system) didn’t.
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A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features.
curl is used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. curl is also libcurl, used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, medical devices, settop boxes, computer games, media players and is the Internet transfer engine for countless software applications in over twenty billion installations.
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The Elegant Desktop Companion for Claude Code.
A powerful GUI app and Toolkit for Claude Code - Create custom agents, manage interactive Claude Code sessions, run secure background agents, and more.
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Your Ultimate Virtual Assistant.
Experience the future of AI assistance with advanced customization, flexible model support, and seamless integration. Newelle brings you the power of AI with unmatched flexibility and control.
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Whispering is an open-source speech-to-text application. Press a keyboard shortcut, speak, and your words will transcribe, transform, then copy and paste at the cursor.
A fast, customizable application launcher built with GTK4 and Rust, designed for Linux desktop environments. Walker provides a clean, modern interface for launching applications, running commands, performing calculations, and more.
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Manage your startup apps and scripts on Freedesktop Linux distros.
Ignition is a minimal app for editing autostart entries on Freedesktop-compliant Linux distributions.
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A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.
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It's your Operating System.
An innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers, built with love by you. 100% Free & Open Source.
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Everywhere enterprise IT is headed, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is there. From the public cloud to the edge, it evolves to bring flexibility and reliability to new frontiers.
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Linux GPU Configuration And Monitoring Tool.
This application allows you to control your AMD, Nvidia or Intel GPU on a Linux system.
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Open source, cross-platform, unofficial YouTube Music Desktop App with built-in ad blocker and downloader
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Simple & Fast Online Markdown Editor with Live Preview. Quickly and easily get started writing your markdown documents with MKEditor's rich set of features.
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Work-in-Progress rewrite of nixos-rebuild.
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OAuth credential MAnager.
Many IMAP/SMTP clients, like msmtp, fdm, isync, aerc, neomutt or mutt can use OAuth2 access tokens but lack the ability to renew and/or authorize OAuth2 credentials. The purpose of oama is to provide these missing capabilities by acting as a kind of smart password manager. In particular, access token renewal happens automatically in the background transparent to the user.
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The fast context maker. Surgical context engineering with a nice UI, Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, anywhere where python & Qt run.
Take control of your AI's context to get radically better bug-fixing and planning assistance. When you don't tell the AIs about MCP servers and tools, you'll be suprised at what they are capable of.
Mesh network sidecars for NixOS Services.
meshSidecar provides a flexible way to integrate mesh networking capabilities with NixOS services. It allows services to participate in mesh networks without requiring direct modification of the service itself.
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Convert your old computer (even chromebook) to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
The goal is to create a "chromebook like" unbreakable computer to give to basic users who know nothing about Linux and won't need to ever worry about updates / upgrades.
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btrbk is a backup tool for btrfs subvolumes, taking advantage of btrfs specific capabilities to create atomic snapshots and transfer them incrementally to your backup locations.
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Modern compositor with the looks.
Hyprland provides the latest Wayland features, dynamic tiling, all the eyecandy, powerful plugins and much more, while still being lightweight and responsive.
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The text editor designed to make coding as simple and fun as playing a video game.
Phoenix is a modern open-source and free software text editor designed to make coding as simple and fun as playing a video game.
Exosphere offers aggregated patch and security update reporting as well as basic system status across multiple Unix-like hosts via SSH.
Exosphere is a CLI and Text UI driven application that offers aggregated patch and security update reporting as well as basic system status across multiple Unix-like hosts over SSH.
It is targeted at small to medium sized networks, and is designed to be simple to deploy and use, requiring no central server, agents and complex dependencies on remote hosts.