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Category: Utilities

8N1Term – serial terminal

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

8N1Term is billed as a next-generation serial terminal that removes ASCII table lookup.

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process

Hexus – process manager

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Hexus is a process manager built using .NET 10 designed to work on Linux and Windows seamlessly.

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Virtual Keyboard

11 Best Free and Open Source Virtual Keyboards

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

The software displays a visual keyboard with all the standard keys.

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Virtual Keyboard

wvkbd – on-screen keyboard for wlroots

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

wvkbd aims to deliver a minimal but practically usable implementation of a wlroots on-screen keyboard in legible C.

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Selection of utilities

Stratis – local storage management

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Stratis is a tool to easily configure pools and filesystems with enhanced storage functionality.

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JSON Tools

qq – jq but an interoperable configuration format transcoder

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

qq is multi modal, and can be used as a replacement for jq or be interacted with via a REPL.

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SSD

NoxDir – visualize file system usage

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

NoxDir is a high-performance, cross-platform command-line tool for visualizing and exploring your file system usage.

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colorstorm – TUI to generate color themes for Vim, VSCode, and Sublime

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

colorstorm is a command line TUI to generate color themes for Vim, VSCode, and Sublime.

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Fonts

Geist – typeface designed for developers and designers

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Geist embodies design principles of simplicity, minimalism, and speed, drawing inspiration from the renowned Swiss design movement.

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Password Manager

Pass-CLI – password and API key manager

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pass-CLI is a fast, secure password and API key manager that stores credentials locally with AES-256-GCM encryption.

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Selection of utilities

oq – terminal-based OpenAPI Spec (OAS) viewer

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

oq is a terminal-based OpenAPI Spec (OAS) viewer. It’s written in the Go language.

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process

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: stow

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem.

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Image of Files

gump – smarter cd command

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gump is a directory jumper using frecency. Type directory fragments, land where you meant.

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Fonts

Best Free and Open Source Fonts for Linux

January 29, 2026 Luke Baker Roundup, Utilities

A computer font is implemented as a digital data file containing a set of graphically related glyphs. We recommend the best Linux fonts.

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Fonts

0xProto – programming font focused on source code legibility

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

0xProto is a programming font focused on source code legibility. 0xProto is free and open source.

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Selection of utilities

LiDM – light login manager

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

LiDM is a really light unix login manager made in C which aims to be highly customizable

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Font Tools

5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Font Renderers

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on font renderers for Linux. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.

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Compression

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Parallel Lossless Compression Tools

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

This roundup focuses on lossless compression tools which use multiple cores. Only free and open source software is included here.

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Bookmark manager

bkmr – CLI knowledge management system

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

bkmr is a fast, feature-rich command-line tool that extends bookmark management, snippet handling, markdown rendering, script execution and more.

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Application Launchers

6 Best Free and Open Source AppImage Desktop Integration Tools

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Here’s our survey of tools which help integrate AppImages into your desktop. Only free and open source software is included.

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