Dagu is a lightweight workflow orchestration engine for Linux that lets you define Directed Acyclic Graphs in YAML
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Category: Utilities
Chadburn – modern job scheduler for Docker environments
Chadburn is designed as an alternative to cron and focuses on running scheduled tasks inside containers.
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Ofelia – low-footprint job scheduler for Docker environments
Ofelia is a modern, low-footprint job scheduler for Docker environments. It’s designed as an alternative to traditional cron-based setups.
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Essential Utilities: Reclaiming Disk Space (GUI Tools)
Linux offers an unsurpassed breadth of open source small utilities that perform functions ranging from the mundane to the wonderful. These tools help make Linux a compelling operating system.
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27 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for du
du is a standard program used to estimate file space usage—space used under a particular directory or files on a file system. We recommend alternative commands to du.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Compositing Window Managers
A compositing window manager, or compositor, is a window manager that provides applications with an off-screen buffer for each window.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Neovim GUIs
Neovim’s RPC support lets developers create new front-ends (GUIs) for Neovim that are outside of the terminal. We make our recommendations.
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8 Best Free and Open Source X10 Home Automation Software
X10 is an open standard for controlling home electrical equipment remotely. It works across home power lines and is extremely low-bandwidth.
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12 Best Free and Open Source GUI Tools for System Resources Monitoring in Linux
The tools featured in this roundup are targeted at a desktop user who wants to monitor resources being used on their machine.
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11 Best Free and Open Source NVIDIA GPU Monitoring Tools
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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32 Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools
ASCII art is a graphic design technique that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures.
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Fnf – interactive fuzzy finder for the terminal
Fnf is a fork of fzy, adding features such as 256 and 24-bit color support, configurable padding, and multi-selection.
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45 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Image Viewers
Images are part of every day internet usage. We recommend the finest free and open source graphical image viewers available for Linux.
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csvlens – command-line CSV file viewer
csvlens is a command-line CSV file viewer that works like less, but is designed specifically for tabular data.
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12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Script Writing Tools
Script writing is the art and craft of writing scripts for the general public. The script can take the form of musicals, plays, novels, films, television programmes, and more.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Hard Disk Utilities for System Tweakers
We showcase the finest open source tools to diagnose the health of a hard disk and improve its performance.
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nwipe – secure disk eraser
nwipe is a secure disk erasure utility for Linux and a fork of the dwipe command originally used by Darik’s Boot and Nuke.
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12 Best Free and Open Source Linux System Cleaning Tools
There are a number of open source applications for Linux which help to keep the operating system working like new.
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Bleach – terminal-based Linux maintenance utility
Bleach provides a text user interface with a live system dashboard and menu-driven housekeeping tools.
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Linux Cleaner – make routine Linux maintenance easier
Linux Cleaner is a utility designed to make routine Linux maintenance easier by bringing common cleanup tasks together in a simple interface
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