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mogwai – view library for creating GUI applications

December 6, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

mogwai is a library for building asynchronous user interfaces.

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Zenith – turbo-charged top utility

December 5, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

Zenith is software that’s similar to top but displays histograms, and a wealth of other information such as CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage.

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Hopalong – simple Wayland compositor

December 5, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Hopalong is a simple Wayland compositor with a feature set that’s comparable to XFWM.

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space – disk space analyzer and cleaner

December 4, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

space is a command line interface (CLI) utility that can be used to visualize and manage disk space.

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Kobold – easy declarative web interfaces

December 4, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

Kobold aims to offer easy declarative web interfaces.

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bita – differential file synchronization over HTTP

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

bita is a HTTP based file synchronization tool striving for low bandwidth usage through data reuse.

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Compositing Window Managers

wlmaker – Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

wlmaker is a Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker, an X11 window manager originally designed to integrate with GNUstep.

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diskus – compute disk usage

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diskus is a very simple program that computes the total size of the current directory. It is a parallelized version of du -sh..

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niri – scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

Niri is heavily inspired by PaperWM which implements scrollable tiling on top of GNOME Shell.

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Subiquity – installer framework for Ubuntu

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Subiquity is also the back end for the Ubuntu Desktop installer.

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Monitor System

vtop – graphical activity monitor for the command line

December 2, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vtop uses drawille to draw CPU and memory charts with Unicode braille characters, helping you visualize spikes.

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Draco – build client side web application

December 2, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

Draco is a Rust library for building client side web applications with Web Assembly.

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Notes

Saber – notes app built for handwriting

December 2, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Saber is the notes app built for handwriting .It’s designed to be as simple and intuitive as possible

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Backup software

osync – two way filesync script

December 2, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

osync is a two way filesync script running on Bash. It offers local-local and local-remote sync, full script time control and more.

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Documentation

cpy-cli – command-line utility to copy files

December 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cpy-cli is a user-friendly command-line tool which copies files. It accepts globs and creates non-existent destination directories.

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Monitor System

TTV – term-task-viewer

December 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

TTV is a lightweight terminal tool to manage processes in Unix machines.

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Testing Software

Vizia – declarative GUI library

November 30, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

Vizia is a declarative desktop GUI framework for the Rust programming language.

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auto-cpufreq – automatic CPU speed and power optimizer

November 30, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

auto-cpufreq is an automatic CPU and power optimizer actively monitoring laptop battery state, CPU usage, CPU temperature, and system load.

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Monitor System

below – time traveling resource monitor

November 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

below is an interactive tool to view and record historical system data.

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cpupower – Linux kernel tool

November 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

cpupower is a kernel tool which examines and tunes power saving related of your processor. It shows and set processor power related values.

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