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Pamac – Gtk and CLI front ends of libpamac

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Pamac offers lpm, AUR, Appstream, Flatpak, and Snap support.

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clang-tidy – clang-based linter tool

September 14, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

clang-tidy is a clang-based C++ “linter” tool. It provides an extensible framework for diagnosing and fixing typical programming errors.

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aurto – Arch Linux AUR tool

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

aurto is an Arch Linux AUR tool for managing an auto-updating local ‘aurto’ package repository using aurutils.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Gerbil – desktop app to easily run Large Language Models locally

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

Gerbil lets you run LLMs locally powered by KoboldCpp which itself is a highly modified fork of llama.cpp.

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4 Useful Free and Open Source systemd CLI/TUI Configuration Tools

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, TUI

systemd is a Linux init system and system manager that’s used by most modern Linux distributions. We pick some useful CLI and TUI tools.

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Coding

HTMLHint – static code analysis tool

September 13, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

HTMLHint is a static code analysis tool. It’s written in JavaScript and TypeScript.

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aurutils – helper tools for the AUR

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

aurutils is a collection of scripts to automate usage of the Arch User Repository, with different tasks such as package searching, and more.

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trizen – lightweight AUR package manager

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trizen is a lightweight AUR package manager that’s written in the Perl programming language.

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Perltidy – indents and reformats Perl scripts

September 11, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Perltidy is a Perl script which indents and reformats Perl scripts to make them easier to read.

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Terminal Session Recording

17 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Session Recording

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Roundup

Console screencast software (also known as terminal recorder) lets you capture your terminal. Here’s our verdict.

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F-Fetch – fast and minimal system fetcher

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

F-Fetch is a very fast, minimal terminal system fetcher. It is highly customizable

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pikaur – AUR helper with minimal dependencies

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pikaur is an AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.

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Selection of utilities

chsrc – change source

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

chsrc is a command-line utility to change source everywhere for every software.

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Chemistry

Periodic Table Tools: 6 Best Free and Open Source Linux Tools

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Roundup, Scientific

The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is a rows and columns arrangement of the chemical elements.

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Pakku – pacman wrapper with additional features

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pakku is a pacman wrapper with additional features, such as AUR support. It’s written in Nim.

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Encryption

Shufflecake – create multiple hidden volumes

September 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Shufflecake is a tool for Linux that allows to create multiple hidden volumes on a storage devic

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Aura – package manager for Arch Linux

September 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Aura is a package manager for Arch Linux. Its original purpose was in supplementing Pacman to support the building of AUR packages

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Zpm – Zsh plugin manager

September 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Zpm is a plugin manager for Zsh that combines the imperative and declarative approach. At first run, zpm will do complex logic and generate cache, after that will be used cache only, so it makes this framework to be very

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Images

18 Best Free and Open Source Command-Line Image Compression Tools

September 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup

This article recommends the best command-line image compression tools. They are all free and open source.

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Git Clients

33 Useful Free and Open Source Git Tools

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Roundup, Utilities

Git is an open source distributed version control system which was originally designed by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.

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