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Essential System Tools: HyFetch – neofetch with LGBTQ+ pride flags

June 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software, Utilities

HyFetch is a fork of neofetch that displays distro ASCII art in LGBTQ+ pride colours. It’s written in Python.

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40 Excellent Ways to Manage Your System – Essential System Tools

October 28, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, Internet, Software, System Software, Utilities

This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.

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Essential System Tools: kmon – manage Linux kernel modules

October 26, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

kmon is a text-based tool to help you manage the Linux kernel modules and to monitor the kernel activities.

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Essential System Tools: GreenWithEnvy – NVIDIA graphics card utility

October 14, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

GreenWithEnvy (GWE) is a system tool for NVIDIA graphics cards. This free and open source tool is written in Python.

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Essential System Tools: gWakeOnLAN – turn machines on through Wake On LAN

July 4, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

gWakeOnLAN is a small utility that lets you wake up machines using the Wake on LAN (WOL) feature. WOL lets you wake a computer from a low-power state.

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Essential System Tools: btop++ – resource monitor

June 3, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software, Utilities

btop++ is an alternative to top. It’s a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.

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Essential System Tools: Czkawka – data cleaner

October 22, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

Czkawka is a free and open source multi functional program to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images, and more.

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Essential System Tools: dust – more intuitive version of du

August 11, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

dust gives an instant overview of which directories are using disk space. It’s name derives from the du command and that dust is written in Rust.

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Essential System Tools: TLP – power management package

November 11, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

If you use Linux on a notebook, TLP is for you. It saves laptop battery power with a wide variety of features. There’s processor frequency scaling, Wifi power saving, hard disk advanced power management, GPU power management and much more.

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Essential System Tools: hyperfine – command-line benchmarking tool

August 30, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

hyperfine is a command-line benchmarking tool. It’s designed to measure the full execution time of a program. This open source tool is written in Rust.

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