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Archey 4 – simple system information tool

January 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Archey is a simple system information tool written in Python.

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SrTemplate – string template system

December 31, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

Mr. strings template (SrTemplate) is a library that allows you to render just text templates. It’s written in Rust.

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Plasma System Monitor – monitoring tool

December 20, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Plasma System Monitor provides an interface for monitoring system sensors, process information and other system resources.

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System Monitor – view and manage system resources

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

System Monitor is a process viewer and system monitor with an attractive, easy-to-use interface.

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Resources – monitor system resources

December 16, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Resources allows you to check the utilization of your system resources and control your running processes and apps.

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Monitorets – system resource monitor

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Monitorets is a small utility application offering a simple and quick view at the usage of several of your computer resources.

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tiptop – command-line system monitoring

November 30, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tiptop is a command-line system monitoring tool in the spirit of top. It displays various interesting system stats and graphs them.

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system76-power – utility for managing graphics and power profiles

November 19, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

system76-power offers power profile management for Linux.

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dfc – report file system space usage information

November 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dfc is a tool to report file system space usage information. When the output is a terminal, it uses color and graphs by default.

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CPUFreq – system monitor and power manager

October 24, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

CPUFreq is a lightweight CPU scaling monitor and a powerful CPU management tool using standard cpufreq kernel modules

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TuneD – daemon for monitoring and adaptive tuning of system devices

October 23, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux.

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tdo – opinionated command-line note-taking system

October 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

tdo is a opinionated, command line based note-taking system.

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Anaconda – system installer for Fedora, RHEL and other distributions

September 29, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Anaconda is the installation program used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and some other distributions.

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JFS – Journaled File System

August 28, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

The Journaled File System (JFS) is a journaling file system that was open-sourced by IBM in 1999.

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Cloudmin – manage virtual systems running virtualization technology

August 18, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Cloudmin provides a web interface for management of multiple systems, typically virtual systems running under some virtualization technology.

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Incus – modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager

August 15, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Incus is a modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager.

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chokidar – watch file system changes

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

chokidar is a cross-platform command line utility to watch file system changes.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple System Information

June 29, 2024 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple System information provides a system report containing detailed information about a Mac. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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System Administration

Linux Assistant – tool to help you master Linux system administration

April 26, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software, Utilities

Linux Assistant is a helper tool that aims to guide you through your daily Linux usage. It performs a variety of system tasks.

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Typesetting Tools

typst – markup-based typesetting system for the sciences

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Typst is a markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use.

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