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Dasher – information-efficient text-entry interface

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Dasher is an open source information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures.

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htop – interactive process viewer

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

htop is an interactive and real time process monitoring application similar to the venerable top utility. This application is written in C.

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bottom – cross-platform graphical process/system monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bottom is customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal. The tool is inspired by gtop, gotop, and htop.

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Conky – system monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Conky is an open source system monitor that can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window.

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atop – ASCII full-screen performance monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor, similar to the top command, but atop only shows the active system-resources and processes.

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gotop – terminal based graphical activity monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gotop is a terminal base graphical activity monitor which seeks inspiration from gtop and vtop.

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sysstat – collection of performance monitoring utilities

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The sysstat utilities are a collection of open source performance monitoring tools for Linux. Utilities include mpstat, iostat, nfsiostat-sysstat.

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collectl – performance monitoring tool

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

collectl is a lightweight open source performance monitoring tool capable of reporting interactively as well as logging to disk.

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Saidar – view the system statistics available through libstatgrab

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Saidar is a curses-based free and open source application for viewing the system statistics available through libstatgrab.

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gomi – rm replacement

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gomi is a simple trash tool that works on the command-line which doesn’t unlink (delete) files like the rm command.

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