Skip to content
LinuxLinks

LinuxLinks

The Linux Portal Site

  • Home
  • Software
  • Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Series
  • Search

Search Results for: essential system tools

Zeit – command line tool for tracking time

August 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Zeit is a command line tool for tracking time spent on tasks and projects.

Read more
Time tracking

Bartib – simple timetracker for the command line

August 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Bartib is an easy to use time tracking tool for the command line.

Read more
OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

Rancher – container management platform

August 25, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Rancher is a container management platform built for organizations that deploy containers in production.

Read more
Turkey

pho – lightweight image viewer

August 25, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

pho (pronounced like the first syllable in “photo”) is a lightweight program for viewing large numbers of images quickly,

Read more
Albania

catimg – renders images in the terminal

August 24, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

catimg renders images in the terminal. It supports JPEG, PNG and GIF formats.

Read more

pxv – instant feature rich terminal image viewer

August 24, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

pxv is an instant feature rich terminal image viewer. It claims to be as fast as catimg, if not faster.

Read more
Docker

Podman – manage containers and images

August 24, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Podman is a tool for managing containers and images, volumes mounted into those containers, and pods made from groups of containers.

Read more
Albania

iv – command-line image viewer

August 24, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

iv is a command-line image viewer which uses Sixel, iTerm Inline Images, or Kitty graphics protocols where available.

Read more
Austria

imv – X11/Wayland image viewer

August 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

imv is a command line image viewer intended for use with tiling window managers.

Read more
Monitoring

inotail – inotify-based implementation of tail

August 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

inotail is a replacement for the ‘tail’ program found in the base installation of every Linux system.

Read more
Monitoring

colortail – like the tail command line utility but with colors

August 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

colortail works like tail but can optionally read one or more config files where it’s specified which patterns results in which colors.

Read more
Monitoring

ptail – tail but dynamic

August 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ptail is a small, and likely useless, utility that truncates the output from processes.

Read more
Monitoring

retail – tail with regular expressions

August 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

retail can output that part of a file (or pipe) following the last match of a regular expression,

Read more
Docker

LXD – manage virtual machines and containers

August 20, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

LXD is a solution for managing virtual machines and system containers.

Read more
Docker

virt-manager – desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt

August 20, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt.

Read more
OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

Stakkr – Docker recompose tool

August 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Stakkr is a Docker recompose tool that uses docker compose to easily create / maintain a stack of services, for example for web development.

Read more
Machine Learning

VisioNomicon – leverages GPT-4o to rename image files

August 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

VisioNomicon is a powerful Python-based command-line utility tool designed to rename image files using the capabilities of GPT-4o.

Read more
Docker

Mesos – cluster manager

August 16, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks.

Read more
OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

rkt – application container engine

August 14, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

rkt is an application container engine developed for modern production cloud-native environments.

Read more
Email

WildDuck – opinionated email server

August 12, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

WildDuck is a modern mail server software for IMAP and POP3. Modern being scalable, Unicode-first, and API-controlled.

Read more

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 122 123 124 125 126 … 271 Next Posts»

Best Free Software

Document Management Systems
Documents
Web Browsers
Internet
Education
Education
Internet Radio
Audio
YouTube Tools
Video
Paint Palette
Graphics
System Administration
Admin
Docks
Desktop
Productivity
Productivity
Genome Browsers - Web Based
Science
Games
Games
Vulnerability detection
Security
Replacements for du
Utilities
Object Relational Mapping
Coding
Stockmarket
Finance
Web Delivery
Web Apps
Crafting
Other
Programming Books
Books

Data Science

Data ScienceTake our free interactive courses in data science. There are courses for Python using pandas and plotnine and R using ggplot2.

Get up to speed in 20 minutes. No programming knowledge is required.

Recent Comments

  • Steve Emms on 17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Audio Editors
  • Tony on 17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Audio Editors
  • Steve Emms on Edconv – user-friendly FFmpeg GUI
  • Lopsy on The Big List of Active Linux Distros
  • Lopsy on 14 Best Free and Open Source Anti-Malware Tools
  • Larry Blunders on 14 Best Free and Open Source Anti-Malware Tools
  • James B on The Big List of Active Linux Distros
  • Torin Doyle on Edconv – user-friendly FFmpeg GUI
  • Natalie Spiva on AcreetionOS – user-friendly Arch-based Linux distribution
  • Steve Emms on Asteria – astrological chart calculator and analyzer

Programming Books

Read our curated lists of great free programming books. Learn Java, C, Python, C++, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and many more languages.

Alternatively, check out our series of great free programming tutorials.

Feedback

Help expand our coverage of Linux software by completing our:

  • Open-source software form
  • Linux distro form

Your feedback is very much appreciated. Complete our contact form.

Support Us


Donate
to LinuxLinks

Thank you for supporting LinuxLinks. If you like our site, the best way to ensure it remains available is to make a donation.

Small Devices

We’re publishing a series of articles for each of these Linux-based phones, Mini PCs, SBCs, and NAS devices.

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus laptop
BOSGAME M6 HX370 – AMD
BOSGAME M4 Plus – AMD
Minisforum AI X1 Pro – AMD
Minisforum UM890 Pro – AMD
Volla Phone Quintus with UT (ARM)
HP ProBook 440 G8 Refurb – Intel
ASRock NUC BOX-255H – Intel
Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS – Intel
Orange Pi 6 Plus (ARM)
Orange Pi R2S (RISC-V)
Orange Pi RV2 (RISC-V)
Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Max (ARM)
Raspberry Pi 5 (ARM)

Other SBC series are available on our Series landing page.

Replace Proprietary Software

Migrate from large multinational software companies and embrace free and open source solutions.

Google
Google
Microsoft
Microsoft
Apple
Apple
Adobe
Adobe
IBM
IBM
Autodesk
Autodesk
Oracle
Oracle
Atlassian
Atlassian
Corel
Corel
Cisco
Cisco
Intuit
Intuit
SAS
SAS
Progress
Progress
Salesforce
Salesforce
Citrix
Citrix

Reviews

ReviewsWe’ve written tons of in-depth and completely impartial reviews of open source software. Read our reviews.

New to Linux?

NewbieBegin your Linux journey with our easy-to-understand guide designed for newcomers.

Mega Compilations

100 GUI Apps
100 TUI Apps
100 CLI Apps

Recent Posts

  • OpenWebRX+ – improved version of OpenWebRX
  • 10 Useful Free and Open Source Scrobbler Tools
  • toast – lightweight terminal-based IDE
  • Plutonic – suika-like / spuntika-like game
  • Nextcloud Talk – chat, video and audio calls for Nextcloud
  • Map – Linux Wardley map editor
  • hashit – generate file hashes quickly
  • 19 Best Free and Open Source Command-Line Image Compression Tools
  • CoMaps – community-led maps and navigation application
  • Cerberix – security-focused Linux distribution built on Arch

Desktops

9 Best Desktops
24 KDE Themes
33 KDE Widgets
42 GNOME Extensions
Pantheon, Trinity, LXDE

Archives

Related

Contact us
Link us
FAQ
Comment FAQ
ForFOSS.com
OSSBlog.org
Privacy Policy

© LinuxLinks 1998-2026: Designed by LinuxLinks.