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Category: Utilities

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peek – multi-buffer terminal pager

April 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

peek is a lightweight ncurses-based terminal pager written in C.

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Documentation Generators

rucat – cat-like utility

April 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rucat is a cat-like command line utility that combines multiple files, directories, or standard input into a single structured output.

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Selection of utilities

forkrun – NUMA-aware contention-free streaming parallelization

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

forkrun is a Bash-native streaming parallelization engine for Linux that’s designed as a drop-in replacement for Parallel and xargs -P.

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Password manager

Keycord – browse and edit password stores

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Keycord is a desktop application for managing password stores on Linux.

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Character Maps

5 Best Free and Open Source Character Map Tools

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

A character map allows you to view and access the characters in a particular font. We select the best ones for Linux.

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Selection of utilities

Diveboard – GTK client

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Diveboard is a GTK client for diveboard.com designed for Linux based mobiles like the PinePhone/Librem5.

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Find Duplicates

Prunr – find and remove duplicate files

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Prunr is a desktop disk cleanup utility that helps you find duplicate files and understand how storage is being used.

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Shell prompt

7 Best Free and Open Source Zsh Configuration Frameworks

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

We highly recommend installing a framework with Zsh as it makes dealing with configuration, plugins and themes a lot more straightforward.

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Files

umber – tool to replace cat

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

umber is a command-line utility designed to replace cat for reading source code and other text files in the terminal.

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33 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Time Tracking Software

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

Time tracking software is a type of computer software that records time spent on tasks. This category of software can enable users to run billing reports, and prepare invoices for clients.

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Task Manager

28 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical Task Managers

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

A task manager is software which enables users to compile a list of tasks to be completed. This list is also known as a to-do list or things-to-do.

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Monitor System

CoreX – hardware monitor

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

CoreX is a Linux hardware monitor that helps you keep track of system health and performance from a desktop dashboard.

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Task Manager

Kanri – modern offline Kanban board

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Utilities

Kanri is a modern desktop Kanban board application for personal task and project management.

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Selection of utilities

axe – xargs alternative

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

axe is a command-line utility that serves as an alternative to xargs, with a particular focus on argument processing and argument ordering.

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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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Selection of utilities

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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