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Diary

8 Best Free and Open Source Diary Software

June 6, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

This article identifies flexible and useful diary tools for the Linux desktop. Free and open source software only.

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Antidote is a Zsh implementation of the legacy Antibody plugin manager

June 5, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Antidote is a feature-complete Zsh implementation of the legacy Antibody plugin manager, which in turn was derived from Antigen.

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zgenom – lightweight and fast plugin manager for Zsh

June 4, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Zgenom provides you simple commands for managing plugins. It installs your plugins and generates a static init script that will source them

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Process Explorer

June 4, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, Utilities

Process Explorer is a task manager and system monitor It provides the functionality of Windows Task Manager along with additional features.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

jdDiff is a graphical cross platform diff viewer

June 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

jdDiff shows the difference between two files or two directories.

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zplug is a next-generation plugin manager for zsh

June 3, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

zplug has a good feature set including lazy loading, branch/tag/commit support, and many more.

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ZSH Quickstart Kit

June 2, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

ZSH Quickstart Kit is a simple ZSH quickstart for using ZSH, zgenom, oh-my-zsh and a curated list of extra plugins.

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Pins creates and edits app shortcuts

June 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Pins allows you to customize your app menu by editing .desktop files. It’s written in C.

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Antigen is a plugin manager for zsh

June 1, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Antigen is a small set of functions that help you easily manage your shell (zsh) plugins, called bundles.

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Stream Overlay provides browser overlays on your screen

June 1, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Stream Overlay provides borderless, transparent, click-through browser windows for streaming.

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