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Network

Dynamips – emulate Cisco routers

January 2, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Dynamips is an emulator computer program that was written to emulate Cisco routers.

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NerdFetch – fetch script using Nerdfonts

January 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

NerdFetch is a simple shell script which fetches information about your system.

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GNS3 – network simulator

January 1, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Graphical Network Simulator-3 (GNS3) is software that allows users to emulate, configure, test, and troubleshoot virtual and real networks.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: November and December 2024 Updates

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms Software

November and December 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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faint – extensible TUI fuzzy file explorer

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

faint is a fuzzy file explorer for the CLI that supports various extensible features.

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Compositing Window Managers

Miriway – Mir based Wayland compositor

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Miriway is a starting point for creating a Wayland based desktop environment using Mir.

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rxfetch – minimal but geeky fetch utility

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

rxfetch is a custom system fetching tool written in a Bash script.

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transgender – minimalistic terminal file explorer

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

transgender is a minimalistic TUI file explorer with minimal dependencies, written by a Ranger hater.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Disk Cleanup

December 30, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Microsoft Disk Cleanup is a computer maintenance utility designed to free up disk space. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Web Content Management Systems

6 Best Free and Open Source JavaScript-Based Web Content Management Systems

December 30, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

Here are our favorite JavaScript-based web content management systems. They are all free and open source software.

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gg – TUI for small offline games

December 30, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Games

gg is a small collection of games that you can play in your terminal.

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screenFetch – Bash information tool

December 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

screenFetch is a handy Bash script that can be used to generate one of those nifty terminal theme information and ASCII distribution logos.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tar

December 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We showcase free and open source alternatives to tar, the most widely used archiving utility in Linux systems.

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File Managers

fex – command-line file explorer prioritizing quick navigation

December 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

fex is a command-line file explorer inspired by Vim, exa and fzf, built with quick exploration and navigation in mind.

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Compositing Window Managers

stagen – wlroots-based wayland compositor

December 29, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

stagen is a simple experimental wlroots-based wayland compositor.

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Files

11 Best Free and Open Source non-GTK non-Qt File Managers

December 29, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup

There are many graphical non-Qt and non-Gtk file managers available. This article examines 11 such file managers.

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tere – terminal file explorer

December 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

tere is a terminal file explorer. It is a faster alternative to using cd and ls to browse folders in your terminal.

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PIM-Software

TreeTag – personal data manager

December 28, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

TreeTag is a personal data manager. It stores information in a hierarchy and automatically positions items in the tree based on field values

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File Managers

Treemacs – tree layout file explorer for Emacs

December 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

Treemacs is a file and project explorer similar to NeoTree or vim’s NerdTree, but largely inspired by the Project Explorer in Eclipse.

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Monitoring

vim-tree – use tree for quick navigation

December 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vim-tree integrates good old tree into Vim and Nvim for all common operating systems.

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