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Category: Utilities

COMTool – serial debug tools

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

COMTool is a cross platform serial debug tool. It’s written in Python.

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Files

Lorem – generate placeholder text

July 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Lorem is a simple app to generate the well-known Lorem Ipsum placeholder text.

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WineCharm – Wine GUI

July 10, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

WineCharm is a graphical user interface (GUI) application designed to simplify running and managing Windows applications on Linux using Wine.

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ssterm – console-based serial port terminal

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ssterm is a simple console-based serial port terminal featuring painless serial port configuration.

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Serial Studio – cross-platform telemetry dashboard and real-time data visualization tool

July 7, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Serial Studio is a cross-platform telemetry dashboard and real-time data visualization tool. It supports input from serial ports

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Seriot – serial monitor and serial plotter

July 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Seriot is a GNOME desktop serial monitor and serial plotter that’s written in the Vala programming language.

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Monitor Calibration

Calibrate your Monitor with these Open Source Tools

July 6, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

If you value image quality and accuracy, calibration of your monitor will be important. These tools ensure your monitor is calibrated.

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GTKTerm – serial port communication software

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

GTKTerm is a simple, graphical serial port terminal emulator for Linux and possibly other POSIX-compliant operating systems.

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Selection of utilities

Length measures objects on screen

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Length is a GNOME application for measuring distances on screen to help you design and inspect layouts and graphics.

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moserial – serial terminal for GNOME desktop

July 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

moserial is a clean, friendly GTK-based serial terminal for the gnome desktop. It’s written in the Vala language.

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Fonts

5 Best Free and Open Source Font Managers

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Need an efficient way to manage your fonts? Step forward a dedicated font manager utility.

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SerialTool – Serial-Port/TCP/UDP debugging tool

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SerialTool is a serial/network debugging tool. It supports serial debugging assistant, terminal, waveform display and file transfer.

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Fonts

Deepin Font Manager

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Deepin Font Manager is a tool to install and uninstall font easily, supports batch installation, font information recognition, etc

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Fonts

fnt – apt for fonts

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fnt is a tool to download and install fonts. It helps you to download vector fonts from Debian side, and Google Web Fonts.

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SerialTest – test tool for serial port, Bluetooth, TCP and UDP

July 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SerialTest is a cross-platform test tool for serial port, Bluetooth, TCP and UDP.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

vmstat – reports virtual memory statistics

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, traps, disks and cpu activity.

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minicom – serial communication program

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Minicom is a text-based modem control and terminal emulation program modeled after the popular MS-DOS program Telix.

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Password manager

SpicyPass is a lightweight password manager

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

SpicyPass is a lightweight password manager that uses state of the art cryptography and minimalist design principles.

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Password manager

pa is a simple password manager

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pa is a simple password manager. Encryption support is provided via age. It’s written in portable posix shell.

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Monitoring

lstr – fast, minimalist directory tree viewer

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lstr is a fast, minimalist directory tree viewer. Inspired by the command line program tree, with a powerful interactive mode.

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