Free and Open Source Software, and Benchmark

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Dec 15, 2025

• TReX - terminal app for RegEx visualization - LinuxLinks

  TReX is a terminal-based tool for writing, visualizing, and testing regular expressions.

  Designed for efficiency, it provides a keyboard-driven interface for rapid feedback on your regex experiments—all within your terminal.

  This is free and open source software.

• RADIUSdesk - RADIUS management platform - LinuxLinks

  RADIUSdesk is a powerful and user-friendly RADIUS management platform designed to simplify the administration of network authentication and accounting.

  RADIUSdesk is a powerful yet easy-to-use RADIUS server based on FreeRADIUS.

  This is free and open source software.

• Lichen - multi-headphone audio router for Linux - LinuxLinks

  Lichen is a multi-headphone audio router for Linux.

  Route audio to multiple headphones simultaneously and mix multiple microphones into a single virtual input. Perfect for pair programming, shared listening, or video calls with multiple participants.

  This is free and open source software.

• Helio - music sequencer - LinuxLinks

  Helio is a music sequencer for desktop and mobile platforms.

  Helio aims to be a modern music creation software, featuring linear-based/pattern-based sequencer with clean UI, integrated version control, microtonal temperaments support, small portable builds and more; mainly targeted at hobbyist composers, game developers and indie artists.

  This is free and open source software.

• Benchmarking the BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI Mini PC - LinuxLinks

  This is a new series looking at the BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux. In this series, I’ll examine every aspect of this Mini PC in detail from a Linux perspective. I’ll compare the machine with other machines, including desktop machines, to put the results into context.

  The BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC is the latest addition to the wide range of mini PCs from BOSGAME. This mini PC is based on the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor with integrated AMD Radeon 890M iGPU. The processor has 12 cores (24 threads) with a CPU Mark of around 35104. The machine came with 32GB of RAM and a 1TB NVMe disk which will be sufficient for most use cases.

  For this article in the series, I’ve run a series of benchmarks on the machine. Most of the tests use the Phoronix Test Suite. I’ll compare its results with 6 other mini PCs. These are the the BOSGAME M4 Plus (with AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS), Minisforum UM890 Pro (with AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS), the Minisforum AI X1 Pro (with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370), ASRock NUC Box-255H (with Intel Core Ultra 7 255H), Intel NUC 13 Pro (with Intel i7-1360P), and an Intel N100 machine, together with two desktop machines with 10th and 12th generation Intel processors.

• mcat - extended cat command - LinuxLinks

  mcat is a terminal image, video and Markdown viewer.

  This is fere and open source software.

• rustffetch - neofetch-like information manager - LinuxLinks

  rustffetch is a simple, fast and flexible neofetch-like information manager.

  This is free and open source software.