Eternal Terminal (ET) is a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. It’s written in C++.
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Category: Utilities
Mosh – replacement for interactive SSH terminals
Mosh is a replacement for interactive SSH terminals. It’s more robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi and cellular.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: age
This article spotlights free and open source alternative tools to age, a popular utility to encrypt and decrypt.
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rage – simple encryption tool
rage is a simple, modern, and secure file encryption tool. It features small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Calculator
Apple’s Calculator app lets users perform basic arithmetic calculations with the standard calculator. With the scientific calculator you can also perform exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions.
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xjobs – similar to xargs with enhanced support for multiprocessor machines
xjobs reads job descriptions line by line and executes them in parallel. It limits the number of parallel executing jobs.
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kindd – dd GUI
kindd is billed as a kindful dd. It’s written using Qt Quick, a software application framework. Open source software.
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dd_rescue – data recovery and data protection tool
dd_rescue copies data from one file or block device to another. You can specify file positions (called seek and Skip in dd).
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Hypercalc – interpreted calculator
Hypercalc is an interpreted calculator program designed to calculate extremely large numbers.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: time
This article spotlights alternative tools to time, a simple tool that provides timing statistics about a program run.
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