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System Cleaning

Ubuntu Cleaner – Clean up your system

September 20, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Ubuntu Cleaner is an open source system tool for Ubuntu and Debian based distributions. The software makes it easy to configure your system.

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Maths

PARI/GP – computer algebra system

September 18, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

PARI/GP is a widely used computer algebra system designed for fast computations in number theory e.g factorizations, algebraic number theory.

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Maths

SageMath – open source Python mathematics software system

September 18, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

SageMath is a computer algebra system written in Python and Cython and integrates an included distribution of specialized mathematics.

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FORM – Symbolic Manipulation System

September 18, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

FORM is a Symbolic Manipulation System. It reads symbolic expressions from files and executes symbolic/algebraic transformations upon them.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: uname

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to uname, a command-line utility that prints system information.

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Fastfetch – neofetch-like tool for fetching system information

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Fastfetch is a neofetch-like tool for fetching system information and displaying them in a pretty way.

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Awesome Linux Game Tools: noise-suppression-for-voice

August 28, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

noise-suppression-for-voice is a noise suppression plugin based on RNNoise, a noise suppression library based on a recurrent neural network.

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Hard disk image

GPT fdisk – set of text-mode partitioning tools

August 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

GPT fdisk (consisting of the gdisk, cgdisk, sgdisk, and fixparts programs) is a set of text-mode partitioning tools.

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Responsible Gambling Tools

Responsible Gambling Tools Available on Linux Devices

August 11, 2023 John O'Donnell Reviews

Safe gambling is the key to success, so knowing all the tools and measures to be implemented is essential for everyone.

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Noise

Awesome Linux Game Tools: NoiseTorch-ng

July 19, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Software, Utilities

NoiseTorch-ng is billed as an “easy to use open source application for Linux with PulseAudio or PipeWire”.

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Find

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: time

June 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to time, a simple tool that provides timing statistics about a program run.

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perf – performance analysis tools

June 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Performance counters for Linux are a kernel-based subsystem that provide a framework for all things performance analysis.

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Poker

Best Poker Tools and Software

June 12, 2023 John O'Donnell Stories

We’ll discuss the poker tools that will help you improve your hand while playing this favorite game of chance.

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System Administration

Best Free and Open Source Software – System Administration

Updated October 22, 2026 Steve Emms Software, System Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering disk cloning, partition tools, configuration management, application servers, data recovery and more.

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SSD

dfrs – display file system space usage using graphs and colors

May 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dfrs displays the amount of disk space available on the file system containing each file name argument in human-readable format by default.

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System Administration

Essential System Utilities: System Monitoring Center

May 3, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

System Monitoring Center is a multi-featured system monitor. It’s free and open source software written in the Python programming language.

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System Administration

Essential System Utilities: bottom – graphical process/system monitor for the terminal

April 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

bottom is billed as a customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal.

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100 Essential and Must-Have GUI Linux Applications

Updated October 2, 2026 Luke Baker Software

We select great GUI (Graphical User Interface) software that runs under Linux. Almost all featured are open source.

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System Administration

Essential System Utilities: WTF – terminal dashboard

January 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

WTF (also known as ‘wtfutil’) is billed as “the personal information dashboard for your terminal”.

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Game Tools

Awesome Linux Game Tools: Heroic Games Launcher – GOG and Epic Games

November 7, 2022 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Utilities

Heroic Games Launcher (“Heroic”) is a free and open source games launcher for Epic Games and GOG. It’s a cross-platform tool.

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