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Monitor System

ttop – system monitoring with historical snapshots

November 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

ttop is a system monitoring tool with historical snapshots and alerts. It has a top-like TUI. It’s written in Nim.

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Start up

rEFInd – EFI boot manager

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

rEFInd is a boot manager, meaning that it presents a menu of options to the user when the computer first starts up.

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Start up

Plymouth – boot splash and boot logger

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Plymouth provides a splash screen and progress updates during early boot.

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Start up

bootchart2 – merge of bootchart-collector and pybootchartgui

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

bootchart2 is a merge of bootchart-collector and pybootchartgui.

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Start up

OProfile – statistical profiler

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

OProfile is a low-overhead, transparent system-wide profiler for Linux, capable of instruction-grain profiling of all processes.

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Start up

Grub Customizer – configure the GRUB2/BURG settings and menu entries

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to alter the Grub 2 settings. It focuses on the individual list order without losing grub’s dynamical behavior.

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Start up

e4rat – Ext4 – Reducing Access Times

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

e4rat (“Ext4 – Reducing Access Times”) is a toolset to accelerate the boot process as well as application startups.

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Home Automation

HEYU – X10 automation software

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

HEYU controls X10 lighting and appliances from the command line, with CM11A schedules, radio receivers, signal monitoring and automation.

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Home Automation

Minerva – home automation suite

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Minerva combines X10 home automation with multimedia control, web applets, timed routines and remote access in a legacy system.

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Home Automation

MisterHouse – home automation software

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

MisterHouse automates X10, Insteon and other connected devices with programmable events, web control, MQTT and voice features.

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Home Automation

BottleRocket – home automation software for the X10 FireCracker kit

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

BottleRocket controls legacy X10 FireCracker transmitters from the Linux command line, including appliance switching and lighting.

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Home Automation

BlueLava – CGI interface for X10 home automation

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

BlueLava offers a browser-based CGI interface for legacy X10 equipment, using HEYU and other command-line control utilities.

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Flash OS

Etcher – flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Etcher is an image burner with multi-platform support. It makes USB and SD card image burning as effortless as possible.

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Flash OS

MultiBootUSB – create multi boot live Linux on a removable USB disk

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

MultiBootUSB is software to create multi boot live Linux on a removable USB disk. Similar to UNetbootin but many distros can be installed

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Flash OS

UNetbootin – create bootable Live USB drives

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

UNetbootin (Universal Netbook Installer) creates live USB drives that can install Linux or BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive without a CD.

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Flash OS

MultiWriter – write an ISO file to multiple USB devices at once

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

MultiWriter lets you write an ISO file to multiple USB devices simultaneously.

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Batch Renamers

edir – command line utility to rename, remove, and copy filenames and directories

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

edir is a command line utility to rename, remove, and copy filenames and directories using your text editor.

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Batch Renamers

vidir – edit of the contents of a directory in a text editor

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vidir allows editing of the contents of a directory in a text editor. If no directory is specified, the current directory is edited.

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Batch Renamers

rename – rename multiple files using Perl expressions

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rename is a utility that renames multiple files using Perl expressions.

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Batch Renamers

F2 – Command-line batch renaming tool

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

F2 is a cross-platform command-line tool for batch renaming files and directories quickly and safely.

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