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Category: Utilities

Benchmarking

iperf3 – active measurement of network performance on IP networks

April 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iperf3 is a command-line utility for active measurement of network performance on IP networks.

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Benchmarking

UnixBench – original BYTE UNIX benchmark suite

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

UnixBench is a classic system benchmark for Unix-like systems, combining CPU, process, file, shell, system call, and graphics tests.

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Image of Files

Dongle – move around deep directory trees

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Dongle is a terminal utility that helps you move around deep directory trees without typing long cd paths by hand.

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Benchmarking

glmark2 – graphics benchmark

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

glmark2 is a graphics benchmark designed to measure the performance of OpenGL 2.0 and OpenGL ES 2.0 implementations

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Proprietary App of the Week

PangoTerm – modern cross-platform SSH client

April 17, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Proprietary, Reviews, Utilities

PangoTerm is a modern SSH client for developers and system administrators that runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Image of Files

icd – makes changing directories quicker

April 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

icd is a shell utility that makes changing directories quicker and more convenient.

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Selection of utilities

lazyenv – work with environment variable files across projects

April 17, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

lazyenv is a terminal-based application for working with environment variable files across projects.

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Selection of utilities

Telepipe – command-line shell for GNOME

April 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Telepipe is a graphical command-line shell for GNOME that offers a desktop-oriented way to run text-mode command-line programs.

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Files

peek – multi-buffer terminal pager

April 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

peek is a lightweight ncurses-based terminal pager written in C.

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Documentation Generators

rucat – cat-like utility

April 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rucat is a cat-like command line utility that combines multiple files, directories, or standard input into a single structured output.

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Selection of utilities

forkrun – NUMA-aware contention-free streaming parallelization

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

forkrun is a Bash-native streaming parallelization engine for Linux that’s designed as a drop-in replacement for Parallel and xargs -P.

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Password manager

Keycord – graphical client for pass password stores

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Keycord manages pass-compatible encrypted password stores with search, TOTP codes, password health checks and optional Git synchronization.

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Selection of utilities

Diveboard – GTK client

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Diveboard is a GTK client for diveboard.com designed for Linux based mobiles like the PinePhone/Librem5.

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Find Duplicates

Prunr – find and remove duplicate files

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Prunr is a desktop disk cleanup utility that helps you find duplicate files and understand how storage is being used.

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Files

umber – tool to replace cat

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

umber is a command-line utility designed to replace cat for reading source code and other text files in the terminal.

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Monitor System

CoreX – graphical hardware and sensor monitor

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

CoreX monitors Linux hardware sensors with customisable device dashboards, real-time charts and a configurable floating desktop widget.

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Task Manager

Kanri – modern offline Kanban board

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Utilities

Kanri is a modern desktop Kanban board application for personal task and project management.

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Selection of utilities

axe – xargs alternative

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

axe is a command-line utility that serves as an alternative to xargs, with a particular focus on argument processing and argument ordering.

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Image of Files

Katalog – manage catalogs of disks and files

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Katalog is a desktop application for cataloging files and storage devices so you can search, browse, and analyze their contents.

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2026 calendar

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cal

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternatives tools to cal, a utility for displaying calendars on the command-line.

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