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Konsole – terminal emulator for the KDE platform

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Konsole is the KDE 5 terminal emulator. It can contain multiple terminal sessions inside one window using detachable tabs.

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YaKuake – drop-down terminal

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Yakuake is a drop-down terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. It is a very simple utility that enhances productivity.

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Sakura – terminal emulator based on GTK and libvte

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK+ and VTE. It is a terminal emulator with few dependencies.

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kermit – VTE-based, simple and froggy terminal emulator

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

kermit is a VTE-based, simple and froggy terminal emulator. This is free and open source software written in C.

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ROXTerm – terminal emulator

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

ROXTerm is a terminal emulator intended to provide similar features to GNOME Terminal, based on the same VTE library.

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LXTerminal – terminal emulator of LXDE

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

LXterminal is a VTE-based terminal emulator which supports multiple tabs. It is completely desktop-independent.

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Micro – platform for cloud native development

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Micro is a platform for cloud native development. Micro addresses the key requirements for building services in the cloud.

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xdiskusage – user-friendly software to show your disk usage

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

xdiskusage is a user-friendly program to show you what is using up all your disk space. It is based on the design of xdu.

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SquirrelDisk – disk usage tool

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SquirrelDisk is a GUI tool to help you reclaim disk space. It’s written in TypeScript and Rust and published under an open source license.

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agedu – utility for tracking down wasted disk space

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

agedu is a utility for tracking down wasted disk space. It correlates disk usage with last-access times to identify large and disused data.

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Disk Usage Analyser – view and monitor your disk usage and folder structure

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Disk Usage Analyser (also known as baobab) is a graphical, menu-driven application to view and monitor your disk usage and folder structure.

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SSD

Filelight – tool to show disk usage

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Filelight allows you to determine disk space being used by graphically representating your filesystem as a set of concentric segmented-rings.

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dirstat-rs – disk usage cli

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dirstat-rs is a command-line disk usage utility, similar to windirstat. The tool can output sorted JSON.

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tdu – top disk usage

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This command-line tool estimates the disk space occupied by all files in a given path.

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pdu – parallel disk usage utility

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Parallel Disk Usage (pdu) is a highly parallelized, fast directory tree analyzer.

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godu – disk usage analyzer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

godu is a simple golang utility helping you to discover large files/folders. This is a terminal based tool.

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erdtree – multi-threaded file-tree visualizer and disk usage analyzer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

erdtree is multi-threaded file-tree visualizer and disk usage analyzer that respects hidden files and .gitignore rules by default.

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dua – disk usage analyzer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dua (Disk Usage Analyzer) is a tool to conveniently learn about the usage of disk space of a given directory.

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gdu – disk usage analyzer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gdu is a disk usage analyser with console interface. gdu is free and open source software.

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ncdu – disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

NCurses Disk Usage (ncdu) is a ncurses-based du viewer. It provides a fast and easy-to-use interface through the well known du utility.

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