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Clipboard

10 Best Free and Open Source Clipboard Sync Tools

June 21, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Best free clipboard synchronisation tools to copy text, links, commands, code and files across devices and systems.

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Monitor System

SysWatch – single-host system diagnostics in your terminal

June 20, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

SysWatch is a terminal-based system diagnostics application for Linux and macOS.

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Text Editor

Croft – VS Code inspired terminal user interface text editor

June 20, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

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

June 20, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

This roundup looks at software designed for working with serial data, telemetry streams, and time series information.

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Find Duplicates

dskDitto – parallel duplicate-file detector with interactive menus

June 20, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

dskDitto is a duplicate file finder that scans directories for redundant files and presents the results in an interactive terminal interface.

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FTP

5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical FTP Clients

June 20, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Utilities

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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Best Free and Open Source System Profilers

gnfetch – Linux system information tool

June 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gnfetch is a Linux system information tool written in Rust. It offers an alternative to neofetch and fastfetch.

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Selection of utilities

Discover – find and install applications, games, and tools

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

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

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tio is a serial device I/O tool for Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like systems.

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Clipboard

Ringboard – clipboard manager

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Ringboard is a Linux clipboard manager built around a client-server architecture.

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Clipboard

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux CLI Clipboard Managers

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

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

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Commy is a cross-platform serial monitor for communicating with tty, UART, and COM port devices.

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Command Schedulers

14 Best Free and Open Source CLI Command Schedulers

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, Utilities

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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Command Schedulers

Dkron – distributed job scheduling system for cloud native environments

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

Dkron is a distributed job scheduling system for cloud native environments.

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Command Schedulers

Dagu – lightweight workflow orchestration engine

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software, Utilities

Dagu is a lightweight workflow orchestration engine for Linux that lets you define Directed Acyclic Graphs in YAML

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Command Schedulers

Chadburn – modern job scheduler for Docker environments

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

Chadburn is designed as an alternative to cron and focuses on running scheduled tasks inside containers.

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Command Schedulers

Ofelia – low-footprint job scheduler for Docker environments

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

Ofelia is a modern, low-footprint job scheduler for Docker environments. It’s designed as an alternative to traditional cron-based setups.

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SSD

Essential Utilities: Reclaiming Disk Space (GUI Tools)

June 17, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

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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SSD

27 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for du

June 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

du is a standard program used to estimate file space usage—space used under a particular directory or files on a file system. We recommend alternative commands to du.

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Compositing Window Managers

9 Best Free and Open Source Compositing Window Managers

June 15, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

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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