Saturday Showcase: Built & Shared by Members This Week

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A fresh weekend is a good time to grab a beverage, pull up a terminal, and try some of the tools and setups people have been crafting and tuning over the last few days.

:new_button: New in Showcase

  • FerrumPix: bringing photo management, RAW editing and image editing together on Linux by @Bitpainter75
    A GPLv3 photo workflow app for Linux with library management, non‑destructive RAW development, layers, masks, local AI tools, and Immich/Nextcloud integration, available as AppImage, Flatpak, DEB, RPM, ZIP and AUR for x64 and ARM64.

  • A TUI music player written in Go by @goatherd
    goatplayer is a terminal UI music library browser written in Go that drives mpv under the hood, with keyboard and mouse control plus installable source and binaries now published on GitHub for people who want to test and help shape its release process.

  • XCropper - Fast Linux image cropping tool by @Halano
    A tiny (~90K) native Linux image cropper that launches fast, decodes a wide range of formats (including RAW, AVIF and JXL), supports lossless PNG export and keyboard-driven pan/zoom, ideal if you just need to trim screenshots or project images without firing up a heavy editor.

  • RamSleuth - RAM telemetry + memory benchmark for Linux by @on5
    A Rust-based desktop and terminal tool that exposes live DRAM controller state, SPD details and bandwidth/latency benchmarks on AMD and Intel, with a small privileged daemon and unprivileged GUI/TUI clients plus AUR packages for Arch users.

:wrench: Active & Updated

  • FerrumPix: bringing photo management, RAW editing and image editing together on Linux
    FerrumPix hit versions 0.9.50 and 0.9.52 this week, gaining a GPS Map gallery view, camera JPEG vs RAW comparison, a reworked Dehaze, histogram and clipping improvements, pen pressure with stroke smoothing, faster painting, richer selection tools and many workflow fixes based directly on feedback in the thread.

  • A TUI music player written in Go
    goatplayer is now on GitHub with a trimmed release source tree, prebuilt executable and an installation walkthrough video for Ubuntu 24, and early testers are helping uncover issues like missing libtag_c.so.0 and crashy database handling that the author is actively investigating.

  • XCropper - Fast Linux image cropping tool
    Discussion compares XCropper’s “instant crop and exit” flow to heavier tools like GIMP or Krita and touches on Shotwell, Mirage and other alternatives, while @Halano hints at related upcoming utilities like a TUI music player and a smart video cropper built on X11 and FFmpeg.

  • RamSleuth - RAM telemetry + memory benchmark for Linux
    Early users surfaced an Intel-specific bug that stops timings from updating, and @on5 is asking for reports from more Intel machines to improve the MCHBAR decode and polling behavior.

  • Brought a couple Cachy apps to the arch masses - scx-manager & kernel-manager
    kernel-manager was updated to 1.30.2 so that build directories with a trailing slash are handled correctly, preventing git clone from targeting an empty destination and refusing separator-only paths with a clear diagnostic.

  • Laser - A simple CD ripping application
    Following the 0.5.0 release, @andreas confirms that Laser can look up disc and track information via MusicBrainz, filling the gap left by older tools that depended on CDDB.

  • I Built Gamma Linux to Give Old PCs Another Life :algeria:
    After kernel panics were reported on older 32 bit hardware, @taki_at_gamma_linux notes that the issue has been tracked down and a fixed ISO is planned, with users patiently waiting to retest on vintage machines.

  • DeLinuxCo on DistroWatch
    DeLinuxCo just landed on DistroWatch, and early impressions from a Manjaro skeptic in the thread praise the customized build for being straightforward to get running where stock Manjaro had previously been troublesome.

:desktop_computer: Desktops, Rices & Setups

Set something of your own in motion, then drop your projects in Showcase and your screenshots in the desktop threads so everyone can explore them before next Saturday’s update.

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