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Category: Utilities

Monitor System

COSMIC System Monitor – graphical system resource monitor

November 5, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

COSMIC System Monitor tracks CPU, memory, GPU, disk and network activity with live charts, process lists and application controls.

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Start up

bootvine – live systemd boot and shutdown visualisation

November 5, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

bootvine visualises systemd startup and shutdown jobs in a live console tree with service timings, dependency context, and failure details.

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Wallpaper Setter

BingWallE – collect Bing and Windows Spotlight wallpapers

November 5, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

BingWallE collects Bing daily and Windows Spotlight wallpapers, with gallery previews, high-resolution downloads and editable photo tags.

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JSON Tools

Tennis – stylish terminal viewer for CSV, JSON and SQLite data

November 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tennis displays CSV, TSV, JSON and SQLite data as colourful terminal tables with automatic layouts, sorting, filtering, and previews.

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Monitor System

Stacer (fork) – Linux system optimizer and monitoring tool

November 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Stacer is a Qt-based Linux system optimiser with resource graphs, service and process controls, startup management and system cleaning.

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Start up

Bootqt – create bootable USB drives from disk images

November 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Bootqt creates bootable USB drives from ISO, IMG and RAW files, with Linux image downloads, Ventoy integration and a simple Qt interface.

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Clipboard

yanklog – private clipboard history manager

November 1, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

yanklog keeps encrypted clipboard history on Linux with searchable text, quick selection, privacy filters, pinned clips, and backups.

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System Cleaning

Krokiet – graphical duplicate file finder and system cleaner

October 31, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Krokiet is a graphical file cleaner that finds duplicates, similar images and videos, empty folders, broken files and wasted space.

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System Cleaning

GT-STACER – Linux system optimiser and monitor

October 31, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

GT-STACER provides graphical Linux system monitoring, process management, cleaning, backup, firewall controls and power management.

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Password Managers

22 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Password Managers

October 29, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

A password manager is a utility which helps users store and retrieve passwords and other data. We make our open source recommendations.

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File Managers

27 Best Free and Open Source Console Linux File Managers

October 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

We recommend the finest free and open source console-based file managers for Linux and other operating systems.

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Audio

15 Best Free and Open Source Audio Converters

October 27, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 12 high quality free and open source Linux audio converters.

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Essential System Utils

9 Best Free and Open Source Process Memory Tools

October 26, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

In this roundup we focus on useful tools that help you work out the amount of memory used by programs.

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Omnidict – offline multilingual dictionary

October 26, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Omnidict is an offline dictionary for Linux with over 600 downloadable dictionaries, instant word searches and spelling suggestions.

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Clipboard

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux TUI Clipboard Managers

October 26, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, TUI, Utilities

The applications featured here keep the focus on fast, keyboard-driven clipboard management in the terminal.

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Command Schedulers

4 Best Free and Open Source GUI Command Schedulers

October 25, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

The software utility cron also known as cron job is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems.

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Selection of utilities

Sauva – terminal Unicode explorer

October 22, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Sauva is a terminal Unicode explorer for browsing code points, inspecting properties, analysing text and comparing normalisation forms.

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System Administration

13 Useful Free and Open Source Flatpak Tools

October 22, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on useful Flatpak tools. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.

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Command Schedulers

KAlarm – flexible alarm and reminder scheduler

October 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

KAlarm schedules desktop reminders, audible alerts, email messages and commands, with recurring alarms, templates and flexible calendars.

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FTP

10 Best Free and Open Source Command-line FTP clients

October 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, Utilities

This article provides our pick of the best open source command line file transfer programs.

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