fio allows benchmarking specific disk IO workloads. It can issue its IO requests using one of many synchronous and asynchronous IO APIs.
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Category: Utilities
sysbench – scriptable database and system performance benchmark
sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on LuaJIT. sysbench is free and open source software. It’s written in C.
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Linux Candy: pscircle visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree
pscircle is a different take on the venerable ps command. It visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree.
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s-tui is a terminal-based stress test and monitoring tool
Stress-Terminal UI, s-tui, is a monitoring tool for your CPU’s temperature, frequency, power and utilization
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: vi
This article spotlights alternative tools to vi, a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: uname
This article spotlights alternative tools to uname, a command-line utility that prints system information.
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Fastfetch – neofetch-like tool for fetching system information
Fastfetch is a neofetch-like tool for fetching system information and displaying them in a pretty way.
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Freshfetch – fresh take on Neofetch
Freshfetch is an alternative to Neofetch written in Rust with a focus on customization. It’s MIT licensed software.
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whoami – user information
whoami displays the username, full name, email address and GitHub username of the current user. It’s written in R.
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w – displays information about the users currently on the machine
w displays information about the users currently on the machine, and their processes. w is written in the C language.
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7 Best Free and Open Source CLI Command Schedulers
The software utility cron also known as cron job is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. But there are other high quality CLI command schedulers.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Linux Archive Managers
Linux has a good range of free and open source archive managers. We feature the best graphical archive managers.
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Walk is a simple and minimalistic terminal navigator
walk is billed as a terminal file manager and a terminal navigator.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ftp
We spotlight alternative tools to ftp, a network protocol used for transferring files from one computer system to another.
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YTalk – multi-user chat program
YTalk is in essence a multi-user chat program supporting both talk and ntalk protocols.
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utalk – UDP-based talk
utalk is a one-to-one text chat program alternative to the Unix ‘talk’ client, which uses a more responsive protocol built over UDP (instead of TCP).
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ntalk – chat application
ntalk is a chat application. It is designed to be much more friendly than Unix talk and provide a nice console interface.
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rename.pl – rename files using Perl expressions
rename.pl allows renaming files using Perl code, such as regular expression replaces (s/old/new/), character translation, and other code.
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renameutils – programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome
The file renaming utilities (renameutils for short) are a set of programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome.
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rename – rename multiple files
This program renames files according to modification rules specified on the command line.
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