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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ping

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

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

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sudo

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

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

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Best Free and Open Source Software: October 2025 Updates

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Software

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

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Stakpak – terminal-native DevOps Agent

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Stakpak can run commands, edit files, search docs, and more. It has security super powers, and generates high quality IaC.

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Animu – watch anime

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Animu is an easy to use desktop application for watching anime. This is free and open source software written in TypeScript.

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LangitKetujuh OS – Linux distribution

October 21, 2025 Erik Karlsson Software

LangitKetujuh OS is an Indonesian desktop and multimedia Linux distribution based on Void Linux.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: df

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to df, a utility that reports file system space usage in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.

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3 Free and Open Source CLI ebook Readers

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Productivity, Roundup, Software

This article showcases CLI ebook readers for Linux. We only feature free and open source software here.

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LAN

virtwold – Wake-on-LAN for libvirt based VMs

October 8, 2025 Steve Emms Software

virtwold is a daemon which listens for WOL packets and tries to start the virtual machine with the associated MAC address.

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Mixer

ncpamixer – ncurses PulseAudio Mixer

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Software

ncpamixer is an ncurses mixer for PulseAudio inspired by pavucontrol.

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