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Category: Utilities

Monitor System

ttop – system monitoring tool

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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Compositing Window Managers

7 Best Free and Open Source Compositing Window Managers

November 17, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

A compositing window manager, or compositor, is a window manager that provides applications with an off-screen buffer for each window.

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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 is a text-based console program that allows your computer to control devices by transmitting information over your house’s power lines.

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Home Automation

Minerva – home automation suite

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Minerva is a complete, easy to use, home automation suite. Using Minerva you can make your home easier and cheaper to run and more secure.

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