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pikaur – AUR helper with minimal dependencies

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pikaur is an AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.

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17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Comic Book Viewers

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms Other, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 17 proficient dedicated comic book viewers.

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Pakku – pacman wrapper with additional features

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pakku is a pacman wrapper with additional features, such as AUR support. It’s written in Nim.

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Aura – package manager for Arch Linux

September 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Aura is a package manager for Arch Linux. Its original purpose was in supplementing Pacman to support the building of AUR packages

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Shell prompt

11 Best Free and Open Source Zsh Plugin Managers

September 7, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Zsh is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting.

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Shell prompt

Zpm – Zsh plugin manager

September 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Zpm is a plugin manager for Zsh that combines the imperative and declarative approach. At first run, zpm will do complex logic and generate cache, after that will be used cache only, so it makes this framework to be very

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Git Clients

33 Useful Free and Open Source Git Tools

September 4, 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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ntpd-rs – synchronizing your computer’s clock

September 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

ntpd-rs is a tool for synchronizing your computer’s clock, implementing the NTP and NTS protocols. It is written in Rust.

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KCharSelect

5 Best Free and Open Source Character Map Tools

September 1, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

A character map allows you to view and access the characters in a particular font. We select the best ones for Linux.

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Shell prompt

7 Best Free and Open Source Zsh Configuration Frameworks

August 29, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

We highly recommend installing a framework with Zsh as it makes dealing with configuration, plugins and themes a lot more straightforward.

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