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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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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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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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15 Utilities, Scripts and Ways to Interrogate Your PC

December 1, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

There are many ways of obtaining information about the hardware you are using. The simplest and most reliable source is your system itself.

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Essential System Tools: TLP – power management package

November 11, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

If you use Linux on a notebook, TLP is for you. It saves laptop battery power with a wide variety of features. There’s processor frequency scaling, Wifi power saving, hard disk advanced power management, GPU power management and much more.

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Excellent System Utilities: Pingnoo – traceroute/ping analyser

October 15, 2021 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Software, Utilities

We look at Pingnoo, an open-source cross-platform application for analysing and measuring the round trip time (latency) between two hosts.

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Essential System Tools: hyperfine – command-line benchmarking tool

August 30, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

hyperfine is a command-line benchmarking tool. It’s designed to measure the full execution time of a program. This open source tool is written in Rust.

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Linux Distributions

FunOS – minimal, fast, and secure Linux distribution

October 18, 2024 Erik Karlsson Distro

FunOS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS. It uses the JWM window manager, comes without Snap, and includes the latest Ubuntu HWE kernel.

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Security

9 Useful Free and Open Source Reverse Vulnerability Analysis Tools

November 23, 2024 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

Vulnerability analysis is an essential activity for enterprise security. We recommend useful open source tools.

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Revision Control

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Revision Control Tools

August 31, 2024 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

Version control systems play an essential role for developers. Explore our recommended free and open source tools.

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