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• Phoronix: Marking 21 Years Of Covering Linux Hardware
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• LINUX Unplugged - TUI Challenge Rules!
• Terminal Apps — A collection of awesome TUI apps from around the web.
• Terminal Trove — Find your next Terminal love.
• awesome-tuis — List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces.
• Superfile: Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager
• Ranger: A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
• joshuto: Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust
• neomutt: ✉ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
• meli: Rusty terminal mail client
• slack-term — Slack client for your terminal
• GitHub - tramhao/termusic: Music Player TUI written in Rust
• zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included
• MyNav: Go-based workspace and session management TUI — A powerful terminal-based workspace navigator and session manager built in Go. MyNav helps developers organize and manage multiple projects through an intuitive interface, seamlessly integrating with tmux sessions.
• aerc - A pretty good email client — aerc is an email client that runs in your terminal. It's highly efficient and extensible, perfect for the discerning hacker.
• aerc - A pretty good email client that runs in your terminal - GitHub
• ulyssa/iamb: A Matrix client for Vim addicts — a Matrix client for the terminal that uses Vim keybindings
• magiblot/tvterm: A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal. Powered by Turbo Vision. — tvterm is an experimental terminal emulator widget and application based on the Turbo Vision framework. It was created for the purpose of demonstrating new features in Turbo Vision such as 24-bit color support.
• sxyazi/yazi: 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. — Yazi (means "duck") is a terminal file manager written in Rust, based on non-blocking async I/O. It aims to provide an efficient, user-friendly, and customizable file management experience.
• meli MUA — meli is a configurable and extensible e-mail client with sane defaults.
• The Mutt E-Mail Client — "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." -circa 1995
• glow: Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻
• gomuks — A Matrix client written in Go
• NCSA Mosaic - Wikipedia — Mosaic is a discontinued web browser. It was instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet during the 1990s by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics.
• carbonyl — Chromium running inside your terminal
• After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More
• PipeWire
• bhh32's tui_player: A video player for the terminal
• How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation – Sean Heelan's Blog
• tempy — A simple, visually pleasing weather report in your terminal.
• arabcoders/ytptube: A WebUI for yt-dlp with concurrent downloads support, presets and scheduled tasks and many more. — YTPTube is a web-based GUI for yt-dlp, designed to make downloading videos from YouTube and other video platforms easier and more user-friendly. It supports downloading playlists, channels, and live streams, and includes features like scheduling downloads, sending notifications, and a built-in video player.

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• NixOS — Reproducible builds and deployments.
• COSMIC by System76 — Computer Operating System Main Interface Components
• KDE Plasma — Do it all in a beautiful environment that adapts to your needs, and with the safety, privacy-protection and peace of mind that the best Free Open Source Software has to offer.
• Ubuntu Server
• Debian — The Universal Operating System
• Jellyfin — The Free Software Media System
• Nextcloud — Online collaboration platform
• Steam Deck
• HP Dev One
• Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
• mastodon — Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community.
• Asahi Linux — Asahi Linux aims to bring you a polished Linux® experience on Apple Silicon Macs.
• AbdBarho/stable-diffusion-webui-docker — Easy Docker setup for Stable Diffusion with user-friendly UI
• Umbrel — A personal server OS for self-hosting.
• immich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.

Plus some useful things Mozilla is working on and Cassidy joins us to tell us about elementary OS' big choice.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, and Martin Wimpress.

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• Office Depot rigged PC malware scans to sell unneeded $300 tech support — Office Depot and a partner company tricked customers into buying unneeded tech support services by offering PC scans that gave fake results.
• Bye Bye vi: GNU/Linux Distros Drop Support
• The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 20 Years of Community-led Development "The Apache Way"
• Reducing Notification Permission Prompt Spam in Firefox — According to our telemetry data, the notifications prompt is by far the most frequently shown permission prompt, with about 18 million prompts shown on Firefox Beta in the month from Dec 25 2018 to Jan 24 2019. Not even 3% of these prompts got accepted by users.
• Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web — Today, we announce the start of a new standardization effort — WASI, the WebAssembly system interface.
• A Real-Time Wideband Neural Vocoder at 1.6 kb/s Using LPCNet — It’s the first time a neural vocoder is able to run in real-time using just one CPU core on a phone (as opposed to a high-end GPU) with quality that is much better than existing very low bitrate vocoders and comparable to that of more traditional codecs using a higher bitrate.
• elementary AppCenter + Flatpak — We’re excited to announce that elementary will be joining the larger independent open source movement and adopting Flatpak for AppCenter and our third-party developer ecosystem.
• NGINX and F5: Our Continued Commitment to Open Source — Just to repeat that. F5 is committed to the NGINX open source technology, developers, and community.
• Raspberry Pi Keyboard and Mouse — I’m delighted to announce the official Raspberry Pi keyboard with integrated USB Hub, and the official Raspberry Pi mouse.
• DIY Pro Audio Kit for Raspberry Pi
• Ubuntu MATE 18.04 Beta 1 for Raspberry Pi — We are preparing Ubuntu MATE 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) for the Raspberry Pi. With this Beta pre-release, you can see what we are trying out in preparation for our next (stable) version.
• What’s Free at Linux Academy — April 2019
• UK Open Source Awards — Now in their 6th year, UKOSA is a free non-profit event that celebrates and acknowledges the contributions from the community of technology experts that make open source such a powerful and unstoppable disruptive force in the current technology landscape.
• Feedback: is compiling faster?