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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ping

This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.

NebiOS is an Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution with a custom Wayland compositor called NebiDE (based on Wayfire).

Dia is a text to speech model capable of generating ultra-realistic dialogue in a single pass.

pingstat is a lightweight, user-level script for multi-server ping logging, storing stats per server in user-writable SQLite databases.

This article spotlights alternative tools to sudo, a command which lets you execute a command as another user.

myping is a command-line utility to ping multiple hosts at once and display the reachability over time.

asroot is a command-line utility to run a process as the root user. It’s written in the C language

Our recommended text-based Git clients, captured in a legendary LinuxLinks chart. We only feature free and open source software here.

sudo-rs is a safety oriented and memory safe implementation of sudo and su written in Rust. It’s an independent implementation.

ZimaOS is a full personal cloud OS developed by the team based on CasaOS (which despite its name is not an operating system).