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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

Diffuse – merge tool written in Python

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Diffuse is a graphical tool for merging and comparing text files. Diffuse is implemented in Python and runs on platforms with PyGTK.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

KDiff3 – graphical text difference analyzer

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

KDiff3 is a graphical text difference analyzer for up to 3 input files, provides character-by-character analysis and a text merge tool.

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DiffPDF – compare two PDF files

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

DiffPDF is a GUI tool that’s used to compare two PDF files. This program is written in C++ and is free and open source.

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xxdiff – graphical file and directories comparator and merge tool

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

xxdiff is a free and open source graphical file and directories comparator and merge tool. Compare two files, three files, or two directories.

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Archive Manager

tar – create tar archives

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tar is console based software for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar format. Free and open source software.

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Archive Manager

patool – portable archive file manager

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Various archive formats can be created, extracted, tested, listed, searched, repacked and compared with patool.

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Archive Manager

TUI Archiver – list / manage archives

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

TUI Archiver is a terminal application to list / manage archives. It’s written in Go and published under an open source license.

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Archive Manager

tarnation – backup/restore utility based on tar

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tarnation is a simple, extensible tar backup/restore utility. It’s free and open source software written in Bash.

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Archive Manager

tarlz – massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tarlz is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor.

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KCron – graphical front end to the standard cron utility

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

KCron is KDE’s task scheduler. It is written in the C++ programming language and is published under an open source license.

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Command Schedulers

KTimer – execute programs after some time

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

KTimer is a little tool to execute programs. The software lets you to enter several tasks and to set a timer for each of them.

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Command Schedulers

FcronQ – Fcron GUI

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

FcronQ is an Fcron GUI for Linux. Fcron is an advanced periodic command scheduler. This is free and open source software.

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Command Schedulers

Zeit – Qt frontend to crontab and at

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Zeit is a Qt frontend to crontab and at. This is free and open source software written in the C++ programming language.

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Command Schedulers

GNOME Schedule – graphical user interface (GUI) tool that leverages the power of cron

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

GNOME Schedule is a graphical front end for the ‘crontab’ and ‘at’ tools. GNOME Schedule is free and open source software.

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Benchmarking

HardInfo – small system administration tool

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

HardInfo is a small utility that displays information about your hardware and operating system. It’s a system profiler and benchmark.

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Benchmarking

netperf – networking benchmark software

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure the performance of many different types of networking. It’s free and open source software.

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Benchmarking

IOzone – filesystem benchmark tool

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

IOzone is a free and open source filesystem benchmark tool that generates and measures a wide variety of file operations.

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Benchmarking

Phoronix Test Suite – automated benchmarking

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

The Phoronix Test Suite is an open source comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform that provides an extensible framework.

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Benchmarking

fio – scriptable I/O tool for storage benchmarks and drive testing

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fio allows benchmarking specific disk IO workloads. It can issue its IO requests using one of many synchronous and asynchronous IO APIs.

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Benchmarking

sysbench – scriptable database and system performance benchmark

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on LuaJIT. sysbench is free and open source software. It’s written in C.

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