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detox – clean up filenames

December 10, 2024 Steve Emms Software

The detox utility renames files to make them easier to work with under Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

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Bella – simple color picker

December 9, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

Bella is a simple eye dropper and color picker. You can pick color from the screen and save it in any color format.

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autorestic – easy backup CLI for restic

December 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

autorestic is a wrapper around the restic backup program. The restic cli can be a bit overwhelming and difficult to manage

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Mahogany – tiling window manager for Wayland

December 9, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM.

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smash – find duplicate files super fast

December 8, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

smash is a CLI tool to smash through to find duplicate files efficiently.

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Find Duplicates

DUDE – GUI utility for finding duplicated files

December 7, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

DUDE (DUplicates DEtector) is a GUI utility for finding duplicated files, delete or link them to save space.

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dyff – diff tool for YAML files

December 7, 2024 Steve Emms CLI

dyff is a diff tool for YAML files, and sometimes JSON.

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Seafile – file syncing and sharing

December 7, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Seafile is a cloud storage system with privacy protection and teamwork features.

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SSD

sn – sniff out build artifacts

December 6, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sn is a tool to help you find build artifacts. It’s also a replacement for the du command.

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Monitor System

Zenith – turbo-charged top utility

December 5, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

Zenith is software that’s similar to top but displays histograms, and a wealth of other information such as CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage.

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Compositing Window Managers

Hopalong – simple Wayland compositor

December 5, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Hopalong is a simple Wayland compositor with a feature set that’s comparable to XFWM.

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space – disk space analyzer and cleaner

December 4, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

space is a command line interface (CLI) utility that can be used to visualize and manage disk space.

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Linux Candy: yosay – like cowsay but less cow

December 4, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

yosay is a tiny utility that displays a picture of Yeoman with accompanying text.

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bita – differential file synchronization over HTTP

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

bita is a HTTP based file synchronization tool striving for low bandwidth usage through data reuse.

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Compositing Window Managers

wlmaker – Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

wlmaker is a Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker, an X11 window manager originally designed to integrate with GNUstep.

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SSD

diskus – compute disk usage

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diskus is a very simple program that computes the total size of the current directory. It is a parallelized version of du -sh..

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Technology

13 Best Free and Open Source Steganography Tools

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

We recommend steganography tools captured in a LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. All the software is free and open source goodness.

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Washington

wttr.in – curl the weather

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific

wttr.in is a console-based weather forecast service that offers lots of options including various information representation methods.

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Compositing Window Managers

niri – scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Niri is heavily inspired by PaperWM which implements scrollable tiling on top of GNOME Shell.

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System

Subiquity – installer framework for Ubuntu

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Subiquity is also the back end for the Ubuntu Desktop installer.

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