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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: uname

This article spotlights alternative tools to uname, a command-line utility that prints system information.

Fastfetch is a neofetch-like tool for fetching system information and displaying them in a pretty way.

Freshfetch is an alternative to Neofetch written in Rust with a focus on customization. It’s MIT licensed software.

Stacking window managers (also known as floating window managers) draw all windows in a specific order, allowing them to overlap.

whoami displays the username, full name, email address and GitHub username of the current user. It’s written in R.

w displays information about the users currently on the machine, and their processes. w is written in the C language.

The software utility cron also known as cron job is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems.

Gcron is a graphical frontend for cron. This tool handles your cron configuration. It’s written in the Vala language.

Linux offers a good range of terminal-based archive managers.

We look at GUI tools that let you see the difference between two files or two versions of the same file.