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Category: Utilities

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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Time tracking

27 Sparkling Free and Open Source CLI Linux Time Trackers

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

All of the time trackers featured in this roundup are console applications, using a command-line interface.

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Reference Managers

coBib – console bibliography

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

coBib is a simple, console-based bibliography management tool.

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System Administration

Easy Flatpak – manage flatpaks with a simple GUI

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

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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Diary

9 Best Free and Open Source Diary Software

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

This article identifies flexible and useful diary tools for the Linux desktop. Free and open source software only.

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Selection of utilities

mtr085 – full screen ncurses traceroute tool

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mtr combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping programs in a single network diagnostic tool.

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Time tracking

28 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Time Tracking Software

October 29, 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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Selection of utilities

mtr-gtk – network diagnostic tool

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

mtr-gtk combines the functionality of the ‘traceroute’ and ‘ping’ programs in a single network diagnostic tool.

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QR Tools

13 Best Free and Open Source QR Code Tools

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

A QR code (also known as a quick-response code) is a type of two-dimensional matrix barcode invented for labelling automobile parts.

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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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16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Serial Terminals

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

A serial terminal is software that allows communication with devices through a serial port, often used for debugging embedded systems.

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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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FTP

3 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical FTP Clients

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Utilities

FTP is one of many different file transfer protocols that are used. Here’s our verdict of the best graphical FTP clients.

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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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Compression

19 Best Free and Open Source Linux Compression Tools

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software available for Linux, we have compiled a list of 19 useful free compression tools.

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