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Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a powerful and flexible server-side application for playing music. In a home environment, you can connect an MPD server to a Hi-Fi system, and control the server using a notebook or smartphone. You can, of course, play audio files on remote clients. MPD can be started system-wide or on a per-user basis.

This article looks at software which helps you manage AppImages on your system.

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 10 high quality mobile application development frameworks that offer an excellent way to develop mobile apps.

Having a solid data backup strategy is imperative in keeping your data safe. Your storage drives won’t last forever.

Linux offers an impressive range of open source document management systems of varying complexities, to help manage paper files electronically, enabling users to find data without any fuss or bother.

A tag editor (or tagger) is an application which allows users to edit metadata of multimedia files. Metadata is the data about the audio data. It lets information about the audio file such as the title, artist, conductor, album, track length, lyrics, embedded images, and other information be stored in the audio file itself.

Data compression is the process of storing data in a format that uses less space than the original representation would use.

Asustor Nimbustor 2 Gen2 AS5402T is billed as an enthusiast-grade NAS, with entry-level pricing yet with features often found on more expensive NAS products. It runs ADM, a Linux-based operating system.

Pin It! is a small utility which lets you pin shortcuts for portable apps to your app launcher by creating desktop files.

In the field of desktop environments, there are two desktops that dominate the open source landscape: KDE and GNOME. They are smart, stable, and generally stay out of the way. These use the widget toolkits Qt and GTK respectively. And there are many excellent Qt and GTK file managers available.

Szyszka is billed as a fast and powerful file renamer. It’s built with GTK and is cross-platform software.

Many people who regularly use computers suffer from eye strain and fatigue. Looking at a monitor for a long time can strain your eyes or can make any other problems you are having with your eyes seem more apparent.

nap Backup is billed as the one-click backup utility for safeguarding your important computer files. This is cross-platform software and published under an open source license.

A compiler is software that transforms source code written in a computer language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language, often having a binary form known as object code).

The venerable DVD is a removable media format that was conceived almost 20 years ago. However, it still remains a useful medium, although online streaming has massively reduced its popularity in many areas.

System G is a simple file manager that provides basic access to the file system. The goal is to allow a simple way to access and manipulate files and folders. System G is actively maintained, published under an open source license, and written in C++.

An integrated development environment (IDE) (sometimes known as an integrated design environment or integrated debugging environment) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to programmers for software development.

Shell Genie is a command-line tool that lets you interact with the terminal in plain English. You ask the genie what you want to do and it will give you the command you need. The goal is to make the command-line that bit easier to use.

Speech synthesizers are text-to-speech systems used with computers. This type of software is programmed to include phonemes and the grammatical rules of a language, so that words are pronounced correctly.

There are many graphical non-Qt and non-GTK file managers available. One example is Sigma File Manager. It’s billed as a quickly evolving, modern file manager (explorer / browser) app.