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Clipboard

wayclip – access the Wayland clipboard

March 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wayclip is a pair of command-line utilities: waycopy and waypaste, which allow access to the Wayland clipboard.

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boom – manage text snippets

March 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

boom manages your text snippets on the command line.

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3D Printer

Slic3r – toolpath generator for 3D printers

March 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Slic3r is a toolpath generator for 3D printers: reads 3D models (STL, OBJ, AMF, 3MF) and converts them into G-code instructions.

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Terminal Multiplexer

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal Multiplexers

March 5, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Utilities

Users that want to exploit the full power of the terminal may benefit from using a terminal multiplexer. We feature the best multiplexers.

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3D Printer

Bambu Studio – 3D printing slicing software

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Bambu Studio bills itself as a cutting-edge, feature-rich slicing program.

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lowcharts – draw low-resolution graphs in terminal

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lowcharts is a tool to draw low-resolution graphs in terminal.

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tab – terminal multiplexer

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

tab is an intuitive, config-driven terminal multiplexer designed for software and systems engineers.

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Documentation

dug – global DNS propagation checker

March 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dug is a powerful global DNS propagation checker that can output in a variety of formats.

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3D Printer

mslicer – slicer for resin printers

March 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

mslicer is a GUI-based tool for masked stereolithography (resin) printers. Currently only ELEGOO .goo files can be generated.

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Monitoring

btail – interactive file tail viewer

March 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

btail is a command-line utility for viewing the tail of files with an interactive terminal user interface.

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3D Printer

MatterControl – 3D printing software

March 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

MatterControl is software designed to control and enhance the desktop 3D printing experience.

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3D Printer

OrcaSlicer – G-code generator for 3D printers

March 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Orca Slicer is a powerful slicer for FFF (FDM) 3D Printers. OrcaSlicer is originally forked from Bambu Studio.

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Utility

which – show the full path of commands

March 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

which is a utility that is used to find which executable (or alias or shell function) is executed when entered on the shell prompt.

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Start up

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Boot Utilities

March 1, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

Here’s 8 useful boot utility tools. They are all free and open source software.

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Batch Renamers

11 Best Free and Open Source GUI Batch Renamers

February 28, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

A batch renamer lets you renames files and folders without having to click on every single file individually. Here’s some open source goodies.

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3D Printer

PrusaSlicer – export print files for your 3D printer

February 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

PrusaSlicer takes 3D models (STL, OBJ, AMF) and converts them into G-code instructions for FFF printers or PNG layers for mSLA 3D printers.

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3D Printer

Cura – state-of-the-art slicer app

February 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Cura is a state-of-the-art slicer app to prepare your 3D models for your 3D printer. Fine-tune your 3D model with 400+ settings.

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arsh – statically typed scripting language

February 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

arsh is a statically typed scripting language with shell-like features.

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Magnus – very simple screen magnifier

February 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Magnus is billed as a very simple screen magnifier. It’s designed for Ubuntu but runs on other Linux distributions.

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QR Tools

QRab – QR code reader

February 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

QRab is software that grabs text of QR code from a screen and copies it to the clipboard.

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