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Category: Utilities

Selection of utilities

Filecraft – automate file management tasks

March 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Filecraft is a command line utility designed to automate common file organisation tasks. It’s written in Python and Go.

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Reading

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Speed Reading Tools

March 7, 2026 Steve Emms Books, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

The software featured in here is based on spritzing. Read text without moving your eyes, and therefore rapidly increase your reading speed.

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Font Tools

Sitra – get fonts from online sources

March 7, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Sitra lets you get your fonts from online sources with a sleek, friendly user interface.

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Documentation

xdg-mime – query information about file type

March 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xdg-mime is a command-line tool used to query and manage MIME type associations on Linux and other Unix-like systems

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: catspeak – like cowsay but catty

March 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

catspeak is a command-line tool that generates an ASCII picture with a message. It’s a cowsay like program of a speaking cat.

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Command Schedulers

lsu – view systemd service units

March 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

lsu is a terminal user interface for viewing systemd service units and their associated journal logs.

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Keyboard

6 Best Free and Open Source Software KVM Switches

March 6, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

The main function of a KVM switch is to control, switch between, and manage multiple PCs or servers via a single keyboard, monitor and mouse

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Font Tools

Lipi – install fonts from Google Fonts GitHub Repo

March 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Lipi is an app for installing fonts from Google Fonts Github Repo written in Python, using GTK4 and Libadwaita.

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Selection of utilities

Subscribi – keep tabs on your subscriptions

March 5, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Subscribi keeps tabs on your subs. This program helps you organize and overview your subscriptions.

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3D Printer

preFlight – advanced 3D printing slicer

March 5, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

preFlight is an advanced 3D printing slicer built for precision and performance.

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Selection of utilities

termshot – generate screenshots of your terminal

March 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

termshot reads the console output and renders an output image that resembles a user interface window.

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Selection of utilities

dotool – simulate input

March 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dotool reads actions from stdin and simulates keyboard/mouse input. It works systemwide and supports keyboard layouts.

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Image of Files

Jumper – files/directories jumper

March 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Jumper is a CLI program that helps you jumping to the directories and files that you frequently visit, with minimal number of keystrokes.

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Fonts

Iosevka – open source typeface family

March 2, 2026 Luke Baker Utilities

Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif + slab-serif, monospace + quasi‑proportional typeface family

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

fre – track your most-used directories and files

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fre is a CLI tool for tracking your most-used directories and files.

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Network

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ping

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.

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Shutdown

4 Best Free and Open Source Shutdown Timers

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Linux is blessed with an abundance of useful utilities. We feature interesting shutdown timers. Open source goodness as you’d expect.

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Emojis

9 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Emoji Tools

March 2, 2026 Erik Karlsson CLI, Other, Roundup, Utilities

An emoji is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. We recommend terminal based emoji tools.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

zerobrew – fast Homebrew-compatible package manager

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zerobrew is a fast Homebrew-compatible package manager.

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Selection of utilities

yamldiff – diff between two YAML files

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

yamldiff is a CLI tool to diff two YAML/JSON files. Supports multi-document YAML files (documents separated by —).

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