This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.
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Category: Utilities
syca – minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool
syca is a minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool for Linux with PAM authentication and system-wide secure password caching.
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ripunzip – unzip an archive in parallel
This is a Rust library (and command-line tool) which uses the power of Rust’s rayon library to unzip a zip file in parallel.
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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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dtrx – intelligent archive extraction tool
dtrx cleanly extract many archive types.
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Wallpaper Splitter – apply a single image
Wallpaper Splitter allows you to apply a single image as your wallpaper spanning all of your screens on KDE.
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ibtop – real-time terminal monitor
ibtop is a real-time terminal monitor for InfiniBand networks – htop for high-speed interconnects.
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Pyprland – customization tool for Hyprland
Pyprland offers a plethora of plugins designed for simplicity and efficiency, allowing you to supercharge your productivity
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turm – interface for the Slurm Workload Manager
turm is a text-based user interface (TUI) for the Slurm Workload Manager, which provides a convenient way to manage your cluster jobs.
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Veretino – folder integrity checker
Veretino lets you verify the integrity of both individual files and entire lists. Analyze the contents of folders, calculate checksums, and more.
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16 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls
When invoked without any arguments, ls lists the files in the current working directory. We recommend some great replacements.
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fortty – terminal emulator
fortty is a new GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
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lla – fast ls replacement with superpowers
lla is a modern ls replacement that transforms how developers interact with their filesystem.
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nak – nostr army knife
nak is the nostr army knife command-line tool. This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
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dirmap – tool for generating a directory map
dirmap is a tool for generating a directory map.
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xLights – sequencer for lights
xLights is a sequencer to design, create and play lighting displays through the use of DMX controllers, E1.31 Ethernet controllers and more.
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ck – semantic code search
ck (seek) finds code by meaning, not just keywords. It’s grep that understands what you’re looking for
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buf – flash ISOs to create bootable USB drives
buf is a command-line utility for flashing ISOs to create bootable USB drives.
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demongrep – fast, local semantic code search
Search your codebase using natural language queries like “where do we handle authentication?” — all running locally with no API calls.
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Fingwit – configure fingerprint authentication
Fingwit is used to configure fingerprint authentication. Fingwit relies on Fprintd.
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