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Git Clients

31 Useful Free and Open Source Git Tools

June 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Roundup, Utilities

Git is an open source distributed version control system which was originally designed by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.

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Password manager

15 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Password Managers

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, TUI, Utilities

A password manager is a utility which helps users store and retrieve passwords and other data. Here’s our open source recommendations.

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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

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tree

June 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to tree, a utility that lists the contents of directories in a tree-like format.

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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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Time tracking

23 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Time Tracking Software

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

Time tracking software is a type of computer software that records time spent on tasks. This category of software can enable users to run billing reports, and prepare invoices for clients.

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Monitoring

lstree – ls in tree form

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lstree is a wrapper script around ls to display a nice tree structure.

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Selection of utilities

Encoding Explorer transforms characters into binary

June 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Encoding Explorer is a tool for learning character encoding written in Python.

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Image Viewers

39 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Image Viewers

June 20, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Images are part of every day internet usage. We recommend the finest free and open source graphical image viewers available for Linux.

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