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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.

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Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Sturm Reader

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Reviews, Software, Ubuntu Touch

Sturm Reader is an ebook reader for Linux tailored for Ubuntu Touch and portable devices.

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December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Software

Our popular series on the best free and open source Linux software, hardware including mini PCs and SBCs, phones, and NAS devices.

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Beszel – lightweight server monitoring platform

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform that includes Docker statistics, historical data, and alert functions.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: df

December 5, 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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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: rename

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to rename which renames the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of expression in their name by replacement.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: November 2025 Updates

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

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

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Skanlite – image scanning application

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Skanlite is a simple image scanning application to scan and save images. It is optimized for scanning with flatbed scanners.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cksum

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to cksum, a tool to compute and verify file checksums.

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Synthesizer

Qwertone – simple music synthesizer app

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Qwertone is a simple music synthesizer app (like a toy-piano), but based on usual qwerty-keyboard for input.

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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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Linux Distributions

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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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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Best Free and Open Source Software: September 2025 Updates

October 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

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

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: hexdump

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternative tools to hexdump, a utility that displays file contents in hexadecimal, octal, or ascii.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dig

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to dig. This is a DNS lookup utility.

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