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Category: System Software

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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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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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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, Web Apps

Vigil monitors HTTP, TCP, SSH and application services, publishes a microservices status page and sends outage and recovery alerts.

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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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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 battery and power devices

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Wattage monitors batteries and other power devices through UPower, showing health, energy data, history and device information.

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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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Software

cylon – Arch Linux maintenance program

September 15, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, TUI, Utilities

cylon is a TUI (terminal user interface) which provides updates and maintains an Arch based Linux distribution.

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F-Fetch – fast and minimal system fetcher

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

F-Fetch is a very fast, minimal terminal system fetcher. It is highly customizable

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System

Elephant – general purpose datasource and executor

September 7, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Elephant acts as a unified backend service that aggregates data from various sources.

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System administration

Relax-and-Recover – Linux Disaster Recovery

September 5, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) is a setup-and-forget Linux bare metal disaster recovery solution.

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Bazaar – graphical app store for Linux

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Bazaar is a fast Flatpak app store with Flathub favourites, queued installations, app permissions and a unified library for updates.

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