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Category: System Software

Monitor System

MinMon – opinionated minimal monitoring and alarming tool

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

MinMon is an opinionated minimal monitoring and alarming tool for Linux. It focuses on straightforward system and service checks

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Monitor System

logana – fast terminal log analyser

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

logana is a Rust terminal log analyser with structured filtering, live streams, annotations, persistent sessions and MCP integration.

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Monitoring

Logria – terminal log aggregation and monitoring tool

March 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, TUI

Logria monitors live log streams from commands or files with editable regex filters, custom parsers and real-time aggregation.

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Backup software

Borg Backup Server – GUI Manager for Multiple Borg Endpoints

March 14, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, Web Apps

Borg Backup Server is a self-hosted web application for centrally managing BorgBackup across multiple endpoints (Linux, Mac and Windows).

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gptop – cross-platform GPU monitoring in the terminal

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, TUI

gptop monitors NVIDIA and Apple Silicon GPUs in the terminal, with live charts, detailed process inspection and JSON telemetry output.

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Backup software

39 Best Free and Open Source Linux Backup Tools

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

Linux offers a wide range of backup solutions. We take a look at the best free and open source solutions

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Hard disk

Backup with these Linux DeDuplicating Encryption Tools

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, Utilities

Making file backups is an essential activity for all users, yet many users do not take adequate steps to protect their data.

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Hard disk

Vykar – fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups in Rust

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, System Software, Web Apps

Vykar is a backup utility that creates encrypted, deduplicated snapshots of data and stores them in local or remote repositories.

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System Administration

System-Tools – basic system management tools

March 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

System-Tools is a collection of helpful tools for basic system management of Linux and FreeBSD systems.

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S3QL – file system that stores all its data online

March 4, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

S3QL is a file system that stores all its data online using storage services like Google Storage, Amazon S3, or OpenStack.

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Monitor System

LogLens – interactive terminal interface for Linux events

February 28, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

LogLens is a terminal-based Linux event viewer with severity filters, keyword searches, structured details and keyboard navigation.

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Noorfetch – minimalist system fetch

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Noorfetch is a minimalistic and fast summary of information about your computer, written in Rust.

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Selection of utilities

Ly – display manager

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

Ly is a lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD, designed with portability in mind.

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Command Schedulers

Systemd manager tui – manage systemd services

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, TUI

Systemd manager tui is a program for managing systemd services through a TUI (Terminal User Interface).

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accel-php – PPTP/L2TP/SSTP/PPPoE/IPoE server

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

ACCEL-PPP is a completely new implementation of PPTP/PPPoE/L2TP/SSTP which was written from scratch.

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Circuit board

blaeckfetch – system fetch

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

blaeckfetch is a fast, minimalist system fetch for your terminal. It’s powered by blaeck for rendering.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

ghorg – clone or backup entire repositories

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Use ghorg to quickly clone all of an orgs, or users repos into a single directory.

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Log Analyzers

goxe – log reduction tool

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

goxe is a high-performance log reduction tool. It ingests logs (currently via syslog/udp), normalizes and filters them

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Selection of utilities

Anvil – streamline tool installation and team onboarding

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Install the tools you need, sync your configs, and keep your environment consistent with a single command-line tool.

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jolt – terminal-based battery and energy monitor

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

jolt monitors battery health, power consumption and demanding processes in a customisable terminal interface for Linux and macOS.

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