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Load Balancing

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Progress Kemp LoadMaster

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Kemp LoadMaster is a fully featured load balancer and application delivery controller. We recommend the best FOSS alternatives for Linux.

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Documents

facad is a modern colorful directory listing tool

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

facad is a modern, colorful directory listing tool for the command line. It’s written in C.

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Backup software

ArchiveKeep keeps your files archived in multiple places

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, System Software

ArchiveKeep is a utility that keeps your files archived in multiple places, in a reliable and simple way.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: March 2025 Updates

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

March 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Selection of utilities

svu is a small helper for release scripts and workflows

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

svu provides utility commands and functions to increase specific portions of the version.

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Find

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dd

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to dd, a popular utility to convert and copy a file.

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Find

concurrently lets you run multiple commands concurrently

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

concurrently is similar to the command npm run watch-js & npm run watch-less but better.

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System administration

ddrescueview examines ddrescue’s mapfiles

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

ddrescueview is a small tool that allows users to graphically examine ddrescue’s mapfiles in a user friendly GUI application.

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Password Managers

kpcli is a command line interface to KeePass database files

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

kpcli is a command line interface (interactive shell) to work with KeePass 1.x or 2.x database files.

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Essential-Utilities

entr – Event Notify Test Runner

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

entr is a utility that runs arbitrary commands when files change.

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mprocs runs multiple commands in parallel

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mprocs runs multiple commands in parallel and shows output of each command separately.

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sesh is a smart terminal session manager

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Sesh is a CLI that helps you create and manage tmux sessions quickly and easily using zoxide.

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Terminal Session Recording

ttyd shares your terminal over the web

March 29, 2025 Steve Emms Software

ttyd is a simple command-line tool for sharing terminal over the web.

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Kondo recursively cleans project directories

March 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Programming

Kondo recursively cleans project directories. Supported project types include Cargo, Node, Unity, SBT, Haskell Stack, Maven, Unreal Engine, and more.

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Font Tools

nerdfix fixes obsolete Nerd Font icons

March 29, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

nerdfix helps you to find/fix obsolete Nerd Font icons in your project.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

openapi-tui lists, browses and runs APIs

March 29, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

openapi-tui is a terminal UI to list, browse and run APIs defined with OpenAPI v3.0 and v3.1 spec.

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Log Analyzers

humanlog is a pretty log viewer

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

humanlog reads logs from stdin and prints them back to stdout, but prettier.

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JSON Tools

jnv navigates JSON offering a viewer and filter editor

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

jnv is designed for navigating JSON, offering an interactive JSON viewer and jq filter editor.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

mult runs a command multiple times

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

mult lets you run a command multiple times and glance at the outputs via a TUI.

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Apple Messages

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Messages

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Google Messages is a text messaging software application developed for its Android and Wear OS mobile operating systems.

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