Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 16, 2025

• Tiny Crate - crate-chucking action puzzler - LinuxLinks

  Tiny Crate is a cute little precision platformer with puzzle elements.

  Lift and toss crates to traverse over spike pits and reach higher ground.

  Weigh down buttons to create platforms and solve the puzzle.

  Push yourself and make tight jumps!

  This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

• Emblem - generate project avatars - LinuxLinks

  Emblem generates projects avatars for your Matrix rooms and git forges from a symbolic icon.

  This is free and open source software.

• ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Power Consumption - LinuxLinks

  This is a series of articles looking at the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H running Linux. In this series, I examine every aspect of this Mini PC in detail from a Linux perspective. I’ll compare the machine with desktop PC counterparts along the way.

  For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H. I’ll see how the the computer (“BOX-255H”) compares to a couple of other mini PCs and a couple of desktop processors. Specifically, the Intel NUC i7-1360P (“i7-1360P”), DreamQuest Intel N100 (“N100”), and desktop machines with “i5-10400” and “i5-12400F” processors.

  Let’s start with the machine at idle.

• rqlite - distributed database built on SQLite - LinuxLinks

  rqlite combines the simplicity of SQLite with a fault-tolerant, highly available system. Whether you’re deploying resilient services in the cloud or reliable applications at the edge, rqlite provides a developer-friendly database that’s exceptionally easy to operate.

  rqlite aims to be a rock-solid, fault-tolerant, relational database with effortless installation, deployment, and operation. You can run a single node for a SQLite-over-the-network solution, or scale up to a cluster for high-availabilty. It’s ideal as a lightweight, distributed relational data store for both developers and operators – think Consul or etcd, but with relational modeling available. Use rqlite to reliably store your most important data, ensuring it’s always available to your applications.

  It’s designed for easy deployment and lightweight operation, offering a developer-friendly and operator-centric solution for Linux, macOS, and Windows, as well as various CPU platforms.

  This is free and open source software.

• Real-ESRGAN GUI - AI image enlargement tool - LinuxLinks

  Real-ESRGAN GUI is an open source graphical interface for the AI image restoration algorithm Real-ESRGAN. Real-ESRGAN aims at developing Practical Algorithms for General Image Restoration.

  The software runs completely locally.

  This is free and open source software.

• eradicate - remove commented-out code from Python files - LinuxLinks

  eradicate removes commented-out code from Python files.

  With modern revision control available, there is no reason to save commented-out code to your repository. eradicate helps cleans up existing junk comments. It does this by detecting block comments that contain valid Python syntax that are likely to be commented out code. (It avoids false positives like the sentence this is not good, which is valid Python syntax, but is probably not code.)

  This is free and open source software.