Linux has a number of proficient clipboard managers. We make our recommendations – all free and open source.
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Category: Utilities
Alternatives to popular CLI tools: curl
We spotlight alternatives tools to curl, a utility for transferring data from or to a server, supporting many protocols.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Clipboard Sync Tools
Best free clipboard synchronisation tools to copy text, links, commands, code and files across devices and systems.
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SysWatch – single-host system diagnostics in your terminal
SysWatch is a terminal-based diagnostic monitor for CPU, memory, disks, processes and network activity, with history and recordings.
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Croft – VS Code inspired terminal user interface text editor
Croft is a VS Code inspired terminal user interface text editor designed for developers who want a familiar project editing environment.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Serial Port and Telemetry Visualization Tools
This roundup looks at software designed for working with serial data, telemetry streams, and time series information.
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dskDitto – parallel duplicate file detector
dskDitto scans for duplicate files in parallel, with interactive review, SHA-256 or BLAKE3 hashing and export or cleanup actions.
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5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical FTP Clients
FTP is one of many different file transfer protocols that are used. Here’s our verdict of the best graphical FTP clients.
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gnfetch – terminal system information with graphical cards
gnfetch presents Linux system information as text or graphical cards, with themes, several layouts and PNG export of card output.
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Discover – find and install applications, games, and tools
Discover helps you find and install applications, games, and tools. You can search or browse by category, and look at screenshots.
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tio – serial device I/O tool
tio is a serial device I/O tool for Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like systems.
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Ringboard – efficient Linux clipboard history manager
Ringboard provides persistent Linux clipboard history for text, images and binary data, with CLI, TUI and GUI clients and fast searching.
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13 Best Free and Open Source Linux CLI Clipboard Managers
The applications featured here keep the focus on fast, keyboard-driven clipboard management in the terminal.
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Commy – cross-platform serial monitor
Commy is a cross-platform serial monitor for communicating with tty, UART, and COM port devices.
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14 Best Free and Open Source CLI Command Schedulers
The software utility cron also known as cron job is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. But there are other high quality CLI command schedulers.
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Dkron – distributed job scheduling system
Dkron coordinates scheduled jobs across Linux clusters using leader failover, node targeting, retries, execution history, and an HTTP API.
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Dagu – lightweight workflow orchestration engine
Dagu orchestrates scheduled workflows with YAML definitions, retries, workers, a web interface, and file-backed execution history.
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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 – job scheduler for Docker environments
Ofelia schedules Docker and host jobs using crontab expressions, labels or INI configuration, overlap controls, and notification hooks.
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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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