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Category: System Software

Command Schedulers

chkservice is a terminal-based tool for managing systemd units

May 29, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

chkservice is a tool for managing systemd units. It sports a TUI interface and is written in C++

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Command Schedulers

systemd-analyse helps uncover performance problems

May 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

The systemd init system provides the systemd-analyze tool that can help find performance problems and other important systemd information.

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Command Schedulers

systemctl – manage and monitor the systemd system

May 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

systemctl is a command-line tool that allows for the management and monitoring of the systemd system and service manager.

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Command Schedulers

systemd Pilot is a GUI tool for managing systemd services

May 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

systemd Pilot is a desktop application for managing systemd services on Linux systems. it can be described as a GUI for systemctrl.

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Backup software

7 Best Free and Open Source BorgBackup Front-Ends

May 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Roundup, System Software

BorgBackup (Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. We recommend the best front-ends for Borg.

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SSD

14 Best Free and Open Source Linux Disk Cloning Tools

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

Disk cloning software is not simply helpful for system backups. It has a wide range of other uses such as provisioning new computers in the workplace.

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Command Schedulers

SystemdGenie is a systemd management utility

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

SystemdGenie is a systemd management utility based on KDE technologies. It provides a graphical frontend for the systemd daemon.

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Benchmarking

Hardinfo2 offers system information and benchmark for Linux systems

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Hardinfo2 offers System Information and Benchmark for Linux Systems. It is able to obtain information from both hardware and basic software.

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Start up

YaST2 is a GRUB graphical configuration tool for openSUSE

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) is a Linux operating system setup and configuration tool. It lets you edit GRUB.

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Start up

grub-editor is a GUI application to edit grub configurations

May 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

grub-editor is a GUI application to edit grub configurations. It works by editing the /etc/default/grub file.

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Start up

MyGrub-Editor – GRUB configuration tool for PCLinuxOS

May 12, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

MyGrub-Editor is one of the two graphical tools that are available to customize GRUB in PCLinuxOS.

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Start up

Drakboot is a GRUB graphical configuration tool

May 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Drakboot allows you to configure the boot options (choice of the bootloader, set a password, the default boot, etc.)

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System Administration

jdSystemMonitor is a desktop-independent system monitor for Linux

May 5, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

jdSystemMonitor aims to provide as much information about your system as possible, focusing on process management.

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Backup software

snapborg synchronizes snapper snapshots to a borg repository

May 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

snapborg provides automated backups of snapper snapshots to borg repositories. It’s based on sftbackup and inspired by borgmatic.

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Graphics card image

NVIDIA_OC overclocks NVIDIA GPUs

May 3, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

NVIDIA_OC is a simple Rust Command-Line Interface tool designed to overclock NVIDIA GPUs on Linux.

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Backup software

BorgTUI is a TUI and CLI to automate BorgBackup

May 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, TUI

Manage your backup sources, backups, and repositories from either the TUI or CLI.

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8 Best Free and Open Source NVIDIA GPU Monitoring Tools

May 2, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

nvidia-smi is a basic monitoring and management tool for NVIDIA graphics card. We explore other useful NVIDIA GPU monitoring tools.

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Backup software

BorgWarehouse is a fast and modern WebUI for BorgBackup

May 2, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, Web Apps

BorgWarehouse is a graphical interface to manage a central BorgBackup repository server.

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Graphics card image

NVIDIA System Monitor is a task manager monitoring your GPU

May 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

NVIDIA System Monitor is a simple task manager for Linux for NVIDIA graphics cards. It’s written in C++ and uses Qt.

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SSD

qt-fsarchiver – backup and restore partitions

April 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

qt-fsarchiver is a GUI for the program fsarchiver to save/restore partitions, folders and MBR/GPT.

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