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Category: Utilities

Art

28 Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools

May 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures.

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Dot Matrix creates glyphs

May 24, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Utilities

Dot Matrix is a GUI tool which acts as glyph playground of creativity from simple lines.

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Navigation

INAV Configurator is a tool for the INAV flight control system

May 24, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

INAV Configurator lets you program and customize the INAV firmware running on flight controllers.

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Navigation

Mission Planner is software used to control autonomous vehicles

May 23, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Mission Planner is a ground station for communicating with autonomous aircraft, vehicles, or boats running Ardupilot firmware.

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Documents

lscoltui lets you change the colours of ls

May 23, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

This small tool is written in Rust.

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Monitor System

9 Best Free and Open Source GUI Tools for System Resources Monitoring in Linux

May 21, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

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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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Picture Of The Day – your daily wallpaper

May 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Utilities

Picture Of The Day is a GUI tool that grabs a picture of the day from a variety of sources and sets it as your wallpaper.

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Selection of utilities

Contrast checks the contrast between two colors

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Contrast checks whether the contrast between two colors meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) requirements.

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Wallpaper Setter

mpvpaper – video wallpaper software

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

mpvpaper is a wallpaper program for wlroots based Wayland compositors, such as sway.

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Flash OS

JustDD is a USB Image Writer

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

JustDD is a simple graphical tool to write Linux and Windows ISO images to USB drives. It is designed for ease of use, safety, and flexibility

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