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Category: Utilities

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Katalog – manage catalogs of disks and files

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Katalog is a desktop application for cataloging files and storage devices so you can search, browse, and analyze their contents.

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Clocks

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Clocks

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

The clocks featured in this article are more sophisticated than the basic tray clock.

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2026 calendar

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cal

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternatives tools to cal, a utility for displaying calendars on the command-line.

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rush – command-line tool for executing jobs in parallel

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rush is a tool similar to parallel and gargs.

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SSD

darya – disk usage explorer

April 11, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Darya is a keyboard-driven disk usage explorer for the terminal written in Rust.

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Files

jsongrep – fast querying of JSON, YAML, TOML, JSONL, CBOR

April 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

jsongrep is a CLI tool and Rust library for querying structured data with a JSONPath-inspired language based on regular path expressions.

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PDF

21 Useful Free and Open Source PDF Tools

April 10, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on useful PDF tools which can help you create PDFs as well as small utilities/libraries that help you work with PDF.

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SafeScript – code snippet manager

April 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SafeScript gives developers a dedicated place to store and organize reusable code fragments in a local SQLite database.

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otel-tui – terminal-based observability viewer

April 8, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

otel-tui is a terminal-based observability viewer that lets you inspect telemetry data directly from a text user interface.

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Compression

12 Best Free and Open Source GUI Image Compression Tools

April 8, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Data compression is the process of storing data in a format that uses less space than the original representation would use.

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Flash OS

Essential Utilities: Flash OS Images

April 8, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

Linux offers a gamut of open source small utilities that perform functions ranging from the mundane to the wonderful. In our eyes, it’s the breadth of these tools that help to make Linux a compelling operating system.

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hyprmoncfg – monitor configurator and background daemon for Hyprland

April 7, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

hyprmoncfg is a terminal-first monitor configurator and background daemon for Hyprland.

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11 Best Free and Open Source OCR Tools

April 7, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into searchable, editable documents.

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Monitor System

bpftop – dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

bpftop is a command-line monitoring tool developed by Netflix that provides a real-time, top-like interface for observing running eBPF programs

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Monitor Calibration

Calibrate your Monitor with these Open Source Tools

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

If you value image quality and accuracy, calibration of your monitor will be important. These tools ensure your monitor is calibrated.

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RFC Reader – terminal-based viewer for IETF Request for Comments documents

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

RFC Reader is a terminal-based viewer for IETF Request for Comments documents written in Rust.

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7 Best Free and Open Source Font Managers

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Need an efficient way to manage your fonts? Step forward a dedicated font manager utility.

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Files

hawk – Haskell text processor for the command-line

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Hawk is a command-line text processor that brings Haskell expressions to shell pipelines.

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Pardus Font Manager – lightweight font management application

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Pardus Font Manager is a lightweight font management application developed for Pardus, a Debian based Linux distribution.

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Files

pawk – brings Python expressions and statements to AWK-style workflows

April 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pawk is a command-line text processing utility that brings Python expressions and statements to AWK-style workflows.

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