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SSD

Bonsai – TUI remake of GNOME Baobab

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Bonsai is a terminal user interface (TUI) remake of the GNOME Baobab disk usage analyzer.

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Network

pingstat – multi-server ping statistics and logging

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pingstat logs connectivity measurements for multiple servers in SQLite databases, providing historical latency and packet-loss statistics.

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myping – monitor multiple network hosts simultaneously

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

myping monitors the reachability of several hosts simultaneously, showing connection failures and successes in a compact terminal display.

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System Administration

asroot – simpler alternative to sudo and doas

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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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Administrators in action

sudo-rs – memory safe implementation of sudo and su

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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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Selection of utilities

jet – Just Edit Text

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Jet allows you to replace all the substrings matched by specified regular expressions in one or more files.

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Selection of utilities

Noctalia – minimal desktop shell for Wayland

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

Noctalia is billed as a beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland that actually gets out of your way.

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Images of shells by the sea

Sushi shell – Bash clone shell

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Sushi shell (formerly known as Rusty Bash) is a a Bash clone shell implemented in Rust.

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Reference Managers

coBib – console-based bibliography manager

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

coBib manages bibliographies from the terminal with a searchable TUI, Git-friendly YAML database, importers, citation tools and plugins.

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System Administration

Easy Flatpak – graphical application management utility

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Easy Flatpak offers graphical application management with guided installation recipes, version control, backups and maintenance tools.

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Selection of utilities

mtr085 – enhanced terminal network route analyser

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mtr085 extends mtr with Unicode latency histograms, internationalised domain names, translations and additional network address information.

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Selection of utilities

mtr-gtk – graphical network route diagnostics

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

mtr-gtk provides a graphical interface for continuous route tracing, hop-level packet-loss measurements and network latency statistics.

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luha – simple file checksum tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

luha is a simple file checksum command-line interface tool.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

lunas – syncing cli tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lunas is a syncing cli tool that can handle more than two directories locally and remotely.

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Documents

lv – directory listing and counting tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iv is a directory listing and counting tool written in C++.

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Selection of utilities

Share Preview – test social media cards locally

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Share Preview lets you review and debug websites metadata tags for social media share.

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Password Managers

Identities – modern password-store client made for GNOME

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Identities is a modern frontend for pass built for GNOME. It sports an adaptive interface and is made for GNOME.

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Notes

Notesnook – private workspace

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Notesnook is a free (as in speech) & open-source note-taking app focused on user privacy & ease of use.

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Selection of utilities

Stasis – modern Wayland idle manager

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Stasis is a modern Wayland idle manager that knows when to step back. It’s written in the Rust language.

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Clipboard

Qlipmon – clipboard manager

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Qlipmon is a clipboard history saver with native rofi plugin and DBUS interface.

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