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Category: System Software

Log Analyzers

phos – log colorizer

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

phos is a fast, portable log colorizer written in the Rust language.

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UniFetch – fork of Neofetch

December 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

UniFetch is a command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+, forked from Neofetch.

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Archive Manager

Cloud Storage FUSE – user-space file system

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Cloud Storage FUSE is an open source FUSE adapter that lets you mount and access Cloud Storage buckets as local file systems.

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Server

Confluent – handle essential bootstrap and operation of scale-out server configurations

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Confluent is a software package to handle essential bootstrap and operation of scale-out server configurations.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Spack – multi-platform package manager

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Spack is a multi-platform package manager that builds and installs multiple versions and configurations of software.

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Yoctofetch – system fetch tool

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Ångströmfetch is billed as the fast(est) system fetch tool for Linux with a low footprint.

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rustffetch – neofetch-like information manager

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

rustffetch is a simple, fast and flexible neofetch-like information manager.

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Backup software

Plakar – scalable backup solution

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, Web Apps

Plakar provides a powerful, and scalable backup solution. Besides file-level backups it captures application data with its full context.

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Archive Manager

ZeroFS – filesystem that makes S3 your primary storage

December 13, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

ZeroFS makes S3 storage feel like a real filesystem. It provides file-level access via NFS and 9P and block-level access via NBD.

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Circuit board

albafetch – displays system information

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

albafetch is a simple and fast program to display a lot of system information.

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Backup software

Backmey – desktop backup tool

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Backmey lets you backup what matters, restore anywhere. Configs, themes, fonts, browsers, and packages. It’s a cross-distro tool.

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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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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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Circuit board

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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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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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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