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Category: Utilities

ttysterm is a simple serial terminal

July 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ttysterm is a minimalist terminal program like *minicom* or *cu*.

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COMTool – serial debug tools

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

COMTool is a cross platform serial debug tool. It’s written in Python.

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Lorem – generate placeholder text

July 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Lorem is a simple app to generate the well-known Lorem Ipsum placeholder text.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

WineCharm – Wine GUI

July 10, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

WineCharm is a graphical user interface (GUI) application designed to simplify running and managing Windows applications on Linux using Wine.

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ssterm – console-based serial port terminal

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ssterm is a simple console-based serial port terminal featuring painless serial port configuration.

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Serial Studio – cross-platform telemetry dashboard and real-time data visualization tool

July 7, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Serial Studio is a cross-platform telemetry dashboard and real-time data visualization tool. It supports input from serial ports

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Seriot – serial monitor and serial plotter

July 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Seriot is a GNOME desktop serial monitor and serial plotter that’s written in the Vala programming language.

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Monitor Calibration

Calibrate your Monitor with these Open Source Tools

July 6, 2025 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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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: free

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers and caches used by the kernel.

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GTKTerm – serial port communication software

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

GTKTerm is a simple, graphical serial port terminal emulator for Linux and possibly other POSIX-compliant operating systems.

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