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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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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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Duc – inspect and visualize disk usage

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Duc is a library and suite of tools for inspecting disk usage.

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Converter – front-end for ImageMagick

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Converter is a simple and easy-to-use application built with libadwaita for converting and manipulating images.

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JupyterLab NVDashboard – JupyterLab extension for displaying dashboards of GPU usage

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

JupyterLab NVDashboard is a JupyterLab extension for displaying GPU usage dashboards.

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NVTOP – (h)top like task monitor for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA GPUs

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

NVTOP (Neat Videocard TOP) is an (h)top like task monitor for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA GPUs.

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nvidia-htop – enriches the output of nvidia-smi

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

nvidia-htop is a tool for enriching the output of nvidia-smi. This is free and open source software written in Python.

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gpustat – query and monitor GPU status

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

gpustat is a simple command-line utility for querying and monitoring GPU status. gpustat works only with NVIDIA Graphics Devices only.

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Fountain – plain text markup language designed for screenwriting

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Fountain, formerly known as Screenplay Markdown, is a simple markup syntax for writing, editing and sharing screenplays.

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insect – high precision scientific calculator supporting physical units

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

insect is a high precision scientific calculator. It offers a web version that needs no installation, as well as a command line version.

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Document Management Systems

Enter TeX – integrated LaTeX environment

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

GNOME LaTeX (formerly LaTeXila) is an integrated LaTeX environment for the GNOME desktop.

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File Managers

Ranger – console file manager with VI key bindings

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Ranger is a console based file manager that gives users greater flexibility and a good overview of files without leaving the console.

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