traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. We recommend the best alternatives.
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Category: Utilities
pkgdu – display Arch packages disk usage size
pkgdu is a tool to display packages disk usage size for Arch Linux.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls
When invoked without any arguments, ls lists the files in the current working directory. We recommend some great replacements.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Configuration Frameworks for Emacs
Emacs configuration frameworks take the vanilla Emacs and add their own configuration.
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duviz – render ASCII-art representation of disk space usage
duviz is a (Python 3) command-line tool to visualize disk space usage.
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GuiMan – frontend for Pacman and AUR
GuiMan is a GUI frontend for pacman and AUR that claims it actually works.
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dut – disk usage calculator
By default, dut will output a tree of the biggest directories it finds under your current directory.
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Bonsai – TUI remake of GNOME Baobab
Bonsai is a terminal user interface (TUI) remake of the GNOME Baobab disk usage analyzer.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ping
This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.
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pingstat – multi-server ping logging
pingstat is a lightweight, user-level script for multi-server ping logging, storing stats per server in user-writable SQLite databases.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sudo
This article spotlights alternative tools to sudo, a command which lets you execute a command as another user.
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myping – ping multiple hosts at the same time
myping is a command-line utility to ping multiple hosts at once and display the reachability over time.
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asroot – simpler alternative to sudo and doas
asroot is a command-line utility to run a process as the root user. It’s written in the C language
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sudo-rs – memory safe implementation of sudo and su
sudo-rs is a safety oriented and memory safe implementation of sudo and su written in Rust. It’s an independent implementation.
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jet – Just Edit Text
Jet allows you to replace all the substrings matched by specified regular expressions in one or more files.
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Noctalia – minimal desktop shell for Wayland
Noctalia is billed as a beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland that actually gets out of your way.
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Sushi shell – Bash clone shell
Sushi shell (formerly known as Rusty Bash) is a a Bash clone shell implemented in Rust.
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27 Sparkling Free and Open Source CLI Linux Time Trackers
All of the time trackers featured in this roundup are console applications, using a command-line interface.
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coBib – console bibliography
coBib is a simple, console-based bibliography management tool.
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Easy Flatpak – manage flatpaks with a simple GUI
Easy Flatpak helps you install Flatpak apps in a user-friendly way. The tool has recipes for some of them to install them even better.
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