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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: uname

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

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

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Freshfetch is an alternative to Neofetch written in Rust with a focus on customization. It’s MIT licensed software.

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Stacking Window Managers

22 Best Free and Open Source Stacking Window Managers

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

Stacking window managers (also known as floating window managers) draw all windows in a specific order, allowing them to overlap.

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whoami – user information

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

w displays information about the users currently on the machine, and their processes. w is written in the C language.

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Command Schedulers

7 Best Free and Open Source CLI Command Schedulers

August 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, Utilities

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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Command Schedulers

6 Best Free and Open Source GUI Command Schedulers

August 29, 2023 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

The software utility cron also known as cron job is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems.

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Gcron – handles your cron configuration

August 29, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Gcron is a graphical frontend for cron. This tool handles your cron configuration. It’s written in the Vala language.

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Archive Manager

6 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal-Based Archive Managers

August 28, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Linux offers a good range of terminal-based archive managers.

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