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Category: Utilities

CPU

zeptofetch – ultra-minimal system information tool

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zeptofetch delivers system information in under 2ms* with a 28KB binary*. No scripts, no bloat, just pure C doing exactly what you need.

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Selection of utilities

shiny-mirrors – find the best mirrors for Arch-based distros

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

shiny-mirrors is an alternative to Manjaro’s pacman-mirrors and Arch’s reflector, written in Rust.

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Software

paclog – Pacman log parser

November 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

paclog is a Pacman log parser written in the Rust language.

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Selection of utilities

rate-mirrors – client-side map-aware mirror ranking tool

November 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rate-mirrors is a tool, which tests mirror speed for: Arch Linux, ArcoLinux, Artix, BlackArch, CachyOS, EndeavourOS, Manjaro, and others.

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Essential System Utils

mstat – measure memory usage of a program over time

November 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mstat uses the cgroups kernel API (also used by container infrastructure like Docker) to record memory usage of a set of processes over time.

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Selection of utilities

mirro-rs – mirrorlist manager for Arch Linux systems

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mirro-rs provides a TUI to help you better visualise managing your mirrorlist.

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process-mem – display memory used by processes

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

process-mem is a command-line tool to display process(es) memory usage. The utility shows RSS< VNS, SHR, slib, and more.

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Clipboard

Clipvault – clipboard history manager for Wayland

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Clipvault is a clipboard history manager for Wayland, inspired by cliphist. It’s written in the Rust language.

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Selection of utilities

alram – alarm for RAM

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Alram is an alarm for RAM. It’s designed to help when available memory is below threshold, with optional task killer.

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Selection of utilities

GhostMirror – mirror analyzer for Arch Linux

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

GhostMirror compares the mirror databases with the local database and provides a detailed description of the status.

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Selection of utilities

yabd – yet another brightness daemon

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

yabd is a simple (~300 lines of python) daemon that sets the brightness of the screen depending on ambient brightness.

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Software

Decman – declarative package and configuration manager for Arch

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Decman lets you manage installed packages, your dotfiles, enabled systemd units, and run commands automatically.

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Selection of utilities

liz-desktop – Rust-based shortcut helper

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

liz-desktop is a Rust-based shortcut helper to remember, customize and autorun shortcuts or commands. Developed via Tauri 2.0.

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Selection of utilities

IsMyArchFree – identify licenses

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

IsMyArchFree is a simple program that analyzes pacman-installed packages’ licenses and flags them as free, permissive, …

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Selection of utilities

folsy – folder synchronization script

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

folsy is simple shell script which performs a job similar to other (folder) synchronization tools, but with nearly no resource consumption

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Linux Candy: shuffle – ASCII art with a cool shuffle effect

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

The shuffle command prints an ASCII art picture with a cool shuffle effect.

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vizex

pkgdu – display Arch packages disk usage size

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pkgdu is a tool to display packages disk usage size for Arch Linux.

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SSD

duviz – render ASCII-art representation of disk space usage

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

duviz is a (Python 3) command-line tool to visualize disk space usage.

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SSD

dut – disk usage calculator

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

By default, dut will output a tree of the biggest directories it finds under your current directory.

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Network

pingstat – multi-server ping logging

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pingstat is a lightweight, user-level script for multi-server ping logging, storing stats per server in user-writable SQLite databases.

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