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Best Free and Open Source Calendar Software

6 Best Free and Open Source CalDAV Servers

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

CalDav (Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV) is an internet standard allowing clients to access scheduling or meeting information on a remote server.

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Website

7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Web Caches

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

Web caches have become a vital mechanism for optimizing the amount of data that is delivered in a given period of time. Good web caches also help to minimise latency, serving pages as quickly as possible.

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Circuit board

LeenFetch – system information tool

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

LeenFetch is a fast, minimal, and customizable system information tool built in Rust — your alternative to Neofetch.

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Utility

8 Best Free and Open Source Console Based Network ‘top’ Tools

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, System Software

Out of the myriad of utilities that are available for Linux, top is a troubleshooting tool that often comes up in conversation. We recommend the best network ‘top’ tools.

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Dashboard

Vigil – microservices status page

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Vigil is a Status Page you can host on your infrastructure, used to monitor all your servers and apps

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NiTch Revived – fast system fetch

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

NiTch Revived is a small and incredibly fast system fetch written fully in Nim without any dependencies.

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SSD

Apart GTK – partclone GUI

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Apart GTK is a Linux GUI tool for cloning and restoring disk partitions to and from compressed image files.

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Hard disk image

5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Partitioning Tools

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

Disk partitioning is the means of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions.

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Saving Money with Linux

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Power Management Tools

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

There’s a good range of Linux software which helps to reduce the running cost of your computer. We feature the finest tools.

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Circuit board

swiftfetch – simple system information fetch tool

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

swiftfetch is a fast and simple system information fetch tool written in Rust. It displays various system information like OS, CPU, RAM usage

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SSD

Essential Utilities: Reclaiming Disk Space (GUI Tools)

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

Linux offers an unsurpassed breadth of open source small utilities that perform functions ranging from the mundane to the wonderful. These tools help make Linux a compelling operating system.

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Command Schedulers

ServiceMaster – powerful terminal-based tool for managing systemd units

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

ServiceMaster is a powerful terminal-based tool for managing Systemd units on Linux systems.

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Selection of utilities

Arch Linux MCP Server – Arch Linux MCP (Model Context Protocol)

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Arch Linux MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that bridges AI assistants with the Arch Linux ecosystem.

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Wattage – monitor the health and status of power devices

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Wattage is an application designed for monitoring the health and status of your power devices.

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Backup software

httm – file-level Time Machine-like tool

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

httm is an interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups).

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Selection of utilities

YAFI – Yet Another Framework Interface

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

YAFI is another GUI for the Framework Laptop Embedded Controller. It is written in Python with a GTK4 Adwaita theme

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Best Free and Open Source System Profilers

7 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI System Profilers

October 7, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

A system profiler is a utility that presents information about the hardware attached to a computer. Here’s our verdict.

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Best Free and Open Source System Profilers

19 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Linux System Profilers

October 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, TUI

A system profiler is a utility that presents information about the hardware attached to a computer.

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Network

7 Best Free and Open Source LDAP Solutions

October 3, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is an application protocol for accessing directory services.

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Archive Manager

Choosing a Journaling File System

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

A journaling file system is a special type of file system that maintains a tracking file, called a journal.

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