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Help Viewer is a WebKit based HTML viewer for macOS aimed at displaying help files and other documentation. Help Viewer is proprietary software and not available for Linux

Let me whisk you back to the 1997 Worldwide Developer Conference when the late Steve Jobs tackled a difficult and rudely phrased question about Java from an audience member. His response was profound and really drives at the heart of my angst.

Amethyst is billed as a powerful node-based audio player. The aim of the project is quite interesting: to develop a music player in TypeScript to see how far the language can be stretched to prove it’s possible to provide pro-level features. This is mature software.

Do you ever run a command from a terminal and forget to check when it’s completed or continually monitor the window for completion? Maybe you need noti. It’s a small utlity written in Rust that monitors a command or process and triggers a notification.

Ollama is software in an early stage of development that lets you run and chat with Llama 2 and other models. It’s cross-platform software running under Linux, macOS and Windows. Unlike Llama 2, Ollama actually is open source software, published under the MIT license.

Kronos is a terminal-based music player that’s designed for playing locally stored audio files. This is not an internet streaming player. It’s written in Rust and published under an open source license.

Archive Utility creates and decompresses .zip files and other compressed files. It provides several options for you to have more control over file compression and expansion.

Text generation web UI is software that offers a web user interface for a variety of large language models such as LLaMA, llama.cpp, GPT-J, OPT, and GALACTICA. It has a lofty objective; to be the AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui of text generation.

ProtonUp-Qt is software which helps you install custom builds of Proton such as GE-Proton. ProtonUp-Qt sports a graphical front-end (yes, you guessed it using Qt) and is published under an open source license.

Keychain Access is an app that stores your passwords and account information, and reduces the number of passwords you have to remember and manage.

pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. It's free and open source software.

Grapher creates 2D and 3D graphs from simple and complex equations. It includes a variety of samples ranging from differential equations to 3D-rendered Toroids and Lorenz attractors.

NoiseTorch-ng (let’s call it NoiseTorch) is billed as an “easy to use open source application for Linux with PulseAudio or PipeWire”. The software creates a virtual microphone that suppresses noise.

Radio is billed as a simple radio with a clear and concise interface. It’s written in Vala and published under an open source license.

Want to see your frame rate counter while gaming? Want to monitor your temperatures to make sure you’re not cooking your machine? Want to monitor your CPU/GPU load? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you’ll need a monitoring program to help track this information.

LibreTranslate is a machine translation API which is entirely self-hosted. This software lets you use open source machine translation in your projects. It uses Argos Translate for its translation engine.

Linux has a fairly limited range of eBook readers, so we’re always keen to explore new entrants. Arianna is a ebook reader built for the KDE Plasma desktop but, of course, runs under other desktop environments. It uses Qt, a C++ framework for developing graphical user interfaces and cross-platform applications, and the Kirigami UI framework.

Google Password Manager is a password manager built into Chrome and Android devices. While it’s free to use it’s published under a proprietary license with little information about security used.

gpu-screen-recorder-gtk is a GTK frontend for GPU Screen Recorder. It’s billed as a screen recorder that minimizes system performance by recording using the GPU only. It also claims to be the fastest screen recording tool for Linux. That’s a bold claim indeed and piqued our senses.

Making sure your graphics card’s frames per second (FPS) output matches the refresh rate of your monitor shouldn’t be an issue. But sometimes it can be. libstrangle is a Linux utility that lets you cap the FPS of a game. It’s free and open source software written in C.