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Pakku – pacman wrapper with additional features

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pakku is a pacman wrapper with additional features, such as AUR support. It’s written in Nim.

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Aura – package manager for Arch Linux

September 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Aura is a package manager for Arch Linux. Its original purpose was in supplementing Pacman to support the building of AUR packages

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Shell prompt

11 Best Free and Open Source Zsh Plugin Managers

September 7, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Zsh is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting.

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Shell prompt

Zpm – Zsh plugin manager

September 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Zpm is a plugin manager for Zsh that combines the imperative and declarative approach. At first run, zpm will do complex logic and generate cache, after that will be used cache only, so it makes this framework to be very

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Git Clients

33 Useful Free and Open Source Git Tools

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Roundup, Utilities

Git is an open source distributed version control system which was originally designed by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.

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ntpd-rs – synchronizing your computer’s clock

September 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

ntpd-rs is a tool for synchronizing your computer’s clock, implementing the NTP and NTS protocols. It is written in Rust.

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KCharSelect

5 Best Free and Open Source Character Map Tools

September 1, 2025 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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Shell prompt

7 Best Free and Open Source Zsh Configuration Frameworks

August 29, 2025 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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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: more

August 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to more.

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Cloudreve – self-hosted file management system with multi-cloud support

August 28, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Productivity, Utilities

Cloudreve is a self-hosted file management and sharing system which supports multiple storage providers.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Word2IPA – turn words into their true sounds

August 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Word2IPA converts English words into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), providing a clear representation of pronunciation.

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Documentation

peep – CLI text viewer tool

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

peep is the CLI text viewer tool which runs on Linux and macOS. This tool works interactively like the less command.

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Documentation Generators

ls-lint – fast file and directory name linter

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ls-lint is an extremely fast directory and filename linter. Bring some structure to your project filesystem.

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Password Managers

FMP – password manager written in memory-safe Rust

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Forgot My Password (FMP) is a password manager that safely allows you to generate, store, and manage your passwords in encrypted vaults.

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Dictionary Tools

rdict – offline CLI dictionary

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rdict is an offline CLI dictionary using data from wiktionary. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Selection of utilities

kplay – inspect messages in a Kafka topic

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

kplay (short for “kafka-playground”) lets you inspect messages in a Kafka topic in a simple and deliberate manner.

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Selection of utilities

Moulti – assign visual collapsible blocks

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Moulti enables you to assign the numerous lines emitted by your scripts to “steps”, i.e. visual, collapsible blocks

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cambd – Cambridge dictionary CLI app

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cambd is a Cambridge dictionary cli app which can automatically suggests related words when a typo is detected.

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Files

DF-SHOW – Directory File Show

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

DF-SHOW (Directory File Show) is a Unix-like rewrite of some of the applications from Larry Kroeker’s DF-EDIT

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QSerial – cross-platform serial port utility

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

QSerial is a cross platform serial port utility with batteries included.

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