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Examine – system information viewer for COSMIC

February 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Examine is a COSMIC system information viewer that presents distribution, processor, PCI and USB details in a native libcosmic interface.

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Volta – JavaScript Tool Manager

February 14, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Volta is billed as a hassle-free JavaScript tool manager.

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Backup software

ZnapZend – ZFS centric backup tool

February 12, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

ZnapZend is a ZFS centric backup tool to create snapshots and send them to backup locations.

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Monitor System

Evisum – Enlightenment system monitor

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Evisum is a system monitor using Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL).

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Command Schedulers

sysz – fzf terminal UI for systemctl

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

sysz is an fzf terminal UI for systemctl. This is public domain software.

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Backup software

shallow-backup – Git-integrated backup tool

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

shallow-backup lets you easily create lightweight backups of installed packages, applications, fonts and dotfiles.

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Command Schedulers

systemctl-tui – interact with systemd services

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, TUI

systemctl-tui is a fast, simple TUI for interacting with systemd services and their logs.

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Backup

Btrbk – backup tool for btrfs subvolumes

January 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Btrbk is a backup tool for btrfs subvolumes, taking advantage of btrfs specific capabilities to create atomic snapshots.

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System

Topgrade – system specific update tool

January 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Topgrade detects which tools you use and runs the appropriate commands to update them.

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Archey 4 – simple system information tool

January 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Archey is a simple system information tool written in Python.

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rtfetch – Neofetch but in Rust

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

rtfetch is a command-line system information tool. It’s a clone of neofetch but written in Rust.

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NerdFetch – fetch script using Nerdfonts

January 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

NerdFetch is a simple shell script which fetches information about your system.

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rxfetch – minimal but geeky fetch utility

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

rxfetch is a custom system fetching tool written in a Bash script.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Disk Cleanup

December 30, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Microsoft Disk Cleanup is a computer maintenance utility designed to free up disk space. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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screenFetch – Bash information tool

December 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

screenFetch is a handy Bash script that can be used to generate one of those nifty terminal theme information and ASCII distribution logos.

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Backup

autorestic – easy backup CLI for restic

December 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

autorestic is a wrapper around the restic backup program. The restic cli can be a bit overwhelming and difficult to manage

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System

Subiquity – installer framework for Ubuntu

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Subiquity is also the back end for the Ubuntu Desktop installer.

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auto-cpufreq – automatic CPU speed and power optimizer

November 30, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

auto-cpufreq automatically manages CPU power behaviour, governors, turbo, platform profiles and charging settings on Linux laptops.

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cpupower – examine and tune processor settings

November 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

cpupower lets Linux users inspect CPU frequencies, adjust scaling governors, monitor idle states and configure processor behaviour.

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Backup software

YARsync – Yet Another Rsync

November 29, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

YARsync – Yet Another Rsync is a file synchronization and backup tool written in Python.

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