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Wallpaper Setter

awww – wallpaper daemon for Wayland

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

awww is a wallpaper daemon for Wayland that lets you change wallpapers at runtime without restarting the daemon.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

12 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Linux Diff Tools

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

We look at GUI tools that let you see the difference between two files or two versions of the same file.

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Selection of utilities

nless – terminal user interface pager

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

nless is a terminal user interface pager for exploring structured and semi-structured data.

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Diff Tools

RCompare – file and directory comparison toolkit

May 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

RCompare is a file and directory comparison toolkit written in Rust.

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Selection of utilities

FilesFinder – search for files within a given repository

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

FilesFinder is a command-line utility that searches for files within a repository while respecting ignore rules.

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Selection of utilities

pff – Pretty Fast Find

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pretty Fast Find (pff) is a command-line file search utility written in Rust.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

6 Useful Free and Open Source Arch Client-Side Mirror Tools

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

The software typically compares the mirror databases with the local database.

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Diff Tools

vbl – terminal-based hexadecimal viewer for Linux

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

vbl is a terminal-based hexadecimal viewer that lets you inspect binary data from files and devices in a dynamic hex and ASCII interface.

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Log Analyzers

tailspin – terminal log file highlighter

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

tailspin is a terminal log file highlighter designed for inspecting log output in the shell.

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Log Analyzers

Nerdlog – remote-first terminal log viewer

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

Nerdlog is a remote-first terminal log viewer designed to help you inspect logs from one or more machines through a single interface.

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Log Analyzers

hl – command-line tool for inspecting structured logs

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

hl is designed for fast analysis of large log files and streams, helping users search, sort, and navigate log output.

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Log Analyzers

lazyjournal – inspect logs from multiple sources

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI, Utilities

lazyjournal is a terminal application for inspecting logs from multiple sources through a single text user interface.

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Diff Tools

biodiff – terminal-based binary diff viewer

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

biodiff compares two files side by side in a hex view and uses alignment algorithms to keep similar regions lined up.

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Selection of utilities

fdf – high performance command line file finder

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fdf is a high performance command line file finder written in Rust.

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Diff Tools

VBinDiff – visual binary diff

May 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

VBinDiff is a text-based visual binary diff and hexadecimal file viewer that displays file contents in hexadecimal alongside ASCII.

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Selection of utilities

RustDiff – semantic JSON and XML diff tool

May 1, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

RustDiff is a native desktop application for comparing JSON and XML files semantically rather than just line by line.

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Camera Tools

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Camera Tools

April 30, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Linux offers excellent software for dealing with RAW files, for remotely operating cameras, importing and processing raw data, as well as software to read, write and edit camera metadata.

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Circuit board

ufetch – system profiler

April 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ufetch is a small system information utility for Unix-like operating systems.

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Selection of utilities

hist-rs – high-throughput CLI to count unique lines

April 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hist-rs is a Rust command-line utility built for high-throughput line-oriented text processing.

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Selection of utilities

cuniq – count unique lines in text input

April 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cuniq is a command-line utility written in Rust for counting unique lines in text input.

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