This is the second in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. gtop is an open source system monitoring utility written in JavaScript.
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Essential System Tools: ps_mem – accurately report memory usage of programs
This is the first in a series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series will examine both graphical and text based open source utilities. The first tool under the spotlight is ps_mem, a small utility that reliably reports how much memory is consumed by an application.
Read more7 Essential Tools to Search the Filesystem
Desktop search is a software application which searches the contents of computer files, rather than searching the internet.
Read moreLinux Assistant – tool to help you master Linux system administration
Linux Assistant is a helper tool that aims to guide you through your daily Linux usage. It performs a variety of system tasks.
Read more10 Best Free Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files
Here’s free and open source software that lets you find and remove the duplicate files.
Read more20 Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools
ASCII art is a graphic design technique that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures.
Read moretypst – markup-based typesetting system for the sciences
Typst is a markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use.
Read moreSILE – typesetting system
SILE is a typesetting system. Its job is to produce beautiful printed documents.
Read moreLout – document formatting system
Lout is a document formatting system. The system reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX.
Read moregroff – typesetting system that reads plain text input files
groff (GNU roff) is a typesetting system that reads plain text input files that include formatting commands.
Read moreAlternatives to popular CLI tools: uptime
This article spotlights alternative tools to uptime, a utility which tells you how long the system has been running.
Read moretuptime – report historical and statistical real time of the system
tuptime is a utility that reports historical and statistical real time of the system, keeping it between restarts.
Read moredowntimed – system downtime monitoring and reporting tool
downtimed is a program for monitoring operating system downtime, uptime, shutdowns and crashes and for keeping record of such events.
Read morelastwake – wake/suspend time system journal analyzer
lastwake parses the systemd journal to find out: time of last cold boot, and start/end times of each sleep/resume cycle and their duration.
Read moreFurnace – multi-system chiptune tracker
Furnace is a tool which allows you to create music using sound chips (“chiptune”), most from the 8/16-bit era.
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