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Category: Utilities

Essential System Utils

Smemstat – reports the physical memory usage

May 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

smemstat is a command-line tool for examining Linux process memory usage with shared memory divided proportionally.

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Essential System Utils

smem2 – reports on memory usage on Linux systems

May 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

smem2 is a command line utility for Linux that reports process and system memory usage with a focus on proportional set size (PSS).

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Password Managers

22 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Password Managers

May 27, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

A password manager is a utility which helps users store and retrieve passwords and other data. We make our open source recommendations.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: whois

May 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

whois searches for an object in a RFC 3912 database. We spotlight alternative tools to whois.

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quien – terminal-based domain intelligence toolkit

May 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

quien is a terminal-based domain intelligence toolkit that provides an interactive TUI for investigating domains and IP addresses.

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Selection of utilities

8 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Linux Archive Managers

May 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Roundup, Utilities

We feature the best graphical archive managers.

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Selection of utilities

biff – datetime arithmetic, parsing, formatting and more

May 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

biff is a command-line utility for working with dates, times, durations, and time zones from the shell.

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Selection of utilities

Tauno Serial Plotter – graphical serial data plotting tool

May 26, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Tauno Serial Plotter is a graphical serial data plotting tool designed for Arduino boards and other embedded devices.

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Selection of utilities

PlotJuggler – visualizing and analyzing time series data

May 26, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

PlotJuggler is a fast, flexible tool for visualizing and analyzing time series data.

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Selection of utilities

Telemetry Viewer – data visualization tool

May 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Telemetry Viewer is a data visualization tool designed for working with live or recorded telemetry data.

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Selection of utilities

NinjaTerm – terminal application aimed at embedded developers

May 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

NinjaTerm is a terminal application aimed at embedded developers who need to view debug data and send commands

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FTP

9 Best Free and Open Source Command-line FTP clients

May 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, Utilities

This article provides our pick of the best open source command line file transfer programs.

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Selection of utilities

dateutils – collection of command line utilities

May 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dateutils is a collection of command line utilities for working with dates, times, and date-time values in the shell.

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Emacs

8 Best Free and Open Source Configuration Frameworks for Emacs

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

Emacs configuration frameworks take the vanilla Emacs and add their own configuration.

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cut command

xcut – extends the traditional Unix cut tool

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xcut extends the traditional Unix cut tool with more flexible ways to extract and filter fields from structured text.

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System Administration

11 Useful Free and Open Source Flatpak Tools

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on useful Flatpak tools. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.

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cut command

cuts – Perl command-line utility

May 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cuts is a Perl command-line utility that enhances the traditional Unix/POSIX cut tool for extracting columns from text files.

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FlatSync – synchronize flatpak applications between devices

May 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

FlatSync is a Bash-based command-line tool for Linux that helps keep Flatpak software selections consistent across multiple machines.

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SSD

26 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for du

May 19, 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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Selection of utilities

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal-Based Archive Managers

May 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Useful terminal-based archive managers.

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