Skip to content
LinuxLinks

LinuxLinks

The Linux Portal Site

  • Home
  • Software
  • Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Series
  • Search

Search Results for: essential system tools

Monitor System

atop – ASCII full-screen performance monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor, similar to the top command, but atop only shows the active system-resources and processes.

Read more
Monitor System

gotop – terminal based graphical activity monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gotop is a terminal base graphical activity monitor which seeks inspiration from gtop and vtop.

Read more
Monitor System

sysstat – collection of performance monitoring utilities

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The sysstat utilities are a collection of open source performance monitoring tools for Linux. Utilities include mpstat, iostat, nfsiostat-sysstat.

Read more
Monitor System

collectl – performance monitoring tool

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

collectl is a lightweight open source performance monitoring tool capable of reporting interactively as well as logging to disk.

Read more
Role-Play Games

Tuxemon – monster-fighting RPG

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Tuxemon is a a monster-fighting RPG. The game is in a fairly early stage of development.

Read more
Role-Play Games

The Mana World – an innovative free and open source MMORPG

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

The Mana World (TMW) aims to create an innovative free and open source Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).

Read more
Role-Play Games

Illarion – MMORPG

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Illarion is a persistent fantasy game world with the technology of Europe in the 11th century. It features elves, wizards and demons.

Read more
Role-Play Games

FreedroidRPG – role playing game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

FreedroidRPG is a mature, single player, open source, sci-fi isometric 3D role playing game offering an immersive ambience backed by refined graphics.

Read more
Role-Play Games

Flare – 2D action RPG

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Flare (Free/Libre Action Roleplaying Engine) is a simple, open source, single-player 2D-isometric action RPG engine.

Read more
Role-Play Games

FreeDink – adventure/role-playing game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

FreeDink is a portable and enhanced version of the Dink Smallwood game engine. Dink Smallwood is an adventure/role-playing game, similar to Zelda.

Read more
Role-Play Games

Daimonin – free to play open source MMORPG

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Daimonin is a free and open source software multiplayer online computer role-playing game that is based on the open source Crossfire.

Read more
Role-Play Games

Crossfire – free cooperative multiplayer graphical RPG and adventure game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Crossfire is a multiplayer graphical arcade and adventure game made for the X environment with gtk installed.

Read more
Role-Play Games

Ardentryst – fantasy platformer RPG

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Ardentryst is an action/RPG sidescroller, focused not just on fighting, but on story, and character development. Strategy as well as reflexes are needed.

Read more
Action / Adventure Games

The Ur-Quan Masters – Star Control II port

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

The Ur-Quan Masters (UQM) project aims to port Star Control II to modern operating systems including Linux.

Read more
Action / Adventure Games

The House – simple adventure game written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

The House is a short but sweet simple adventure game. The game runs in your web browser.

Read more
Action / Adventure Games

The Dark Mod – stealth gaming

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

The Dark Mod is a first-person stealth video game, inspired by the Thief series by Looking Glass Studios.

Read more
Action / Adventure Games

SpaceNET – space adventure game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

SpaceNET is a non-linear retro sci-fi adventure. Less graphics, more story!

Read more
Action / Adventure Games

SDLPoP – port of Prince of Persia

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

SDLPoP is a port of Prince of Persia, a video game franchise built around a series of action-adventure games.

Read more
Action / Adventure Games

irrlamb – 3D physics game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

irrlamb is a 3D physics game in which you control a blue ball of energy in an attempt to touch all glowing orbs in the level.

Read more
Action / Adventure Games

Cave Story NX – side-action adventure game

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Cave Story NX is a nostalgic side-action adventure game to jump and shoot.

Read more

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 247 248 249 250 251 … 395 Next Posts»

Best Free Software

Document Management Systems
Documents
Web Browsers
Internet
Education
Education
Internet Radio
Audio
YouTube Tools
Video
Paint Palette
Graphics
System Administration
Admin
Docks
Desktop
Productivity
Productivity
Genome Browsers - Web Based
Science
Games
Games
Vulnerability detection
Security
Replacements for du
Utilities
Object Relational Mapping
Coding
Stockmarket
Finance
Web Delivery
Web Apps
Crafting
Other
Programming Books
Books

Data Science

Data ScienceTake our free interactive courses in data science. There are courses for Python using pandas and plotnine and R using ggplot2.

Get up to speed in 20 minutes. No programming knowledge is required.

Recent Comments

  • Steve Emms on rainy – neofetch-like, minimalistic, and customizable weather-fetching tool
  • Torin Doyle on rainy – neofetch-like, minimalistic, and customizable weather-fetching tool
  • Steve Emms on Gazelle – minimal NetworkManager TUI
  • K0RR on Gazelle – minimal NetworkManager TUI
  • NYM on FLOPPINUX – embedded Linux on a single floppy
  • Shachar on KCalc – scientific calculator
  • Steve Emms on 9 Best Free and Open Source Tools to Search the Filesystem
  • joemaro on 9 Best Free and Open Source Tools to Search the Filesystem
  • Archie on 7 Best Free and Open Source BorgBackup Front-Ends
  • Steve Emms on 7 Best Free and Open Source BorgBackup Front-Ends

Programming Books

Read our curated lists of great free programming books. Learn Java, C, Python, C++, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and many more languages.

Alternatively, check out our series of great free programming tutorials.

Feedback

Help expand our coverage of Linux software by completing our:

  • Open-source software form
  • Linux distro form

Your feedback is very much appreciated. Complete our contact form.

Support Us


Donate
to LinuxLinks

Thank you for supporting LinuxLinks. If you like our site, the best way to ensure it remains available is to make a donation.

Small Devices

We’re publishing a series of articles for each of these Linux-based phones, Mini PCs, SBCs, and NAS devices.

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus laptop
BOSGAME M6 HX370 – AMD
BOSGAME M4 Plus – AMD
Minisforum AI X1 Pro – AMD
Minisforum UM890 Pro – AMD
Volla Phone Quintus with UT (ARM)
HP ProBook 440 G8 Refurb – Intel
ASRock NUC BOX-255H – Intel
Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS – Intel
Orange Pi 6 Plus (ARM)
Orange Pi R2S (RISC-V)
Orange Pi RV2 (RISC-V)
Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Max (ARM)
Raspberry Pi 5 (ARM)

Other SBC series are available on our Series landing page.

Replace Proprietary Software

Migrate from large multinational software companies and embrace free and open source solutions.

Google
Google
Microsoft
Microsoft
Apple
Apple
Adobe
Adobe
IBM
IBM
Autodesk
Autodesk
Oracle
Oracle
Atlassian
Atlassian
Corel
Corel
Cisco
Cisco
Intuit
Intuit
SAS
SAS
Progress
Progress
Salesforce
Salesforce
Citrix
Citrix

Reviews

ReviewsWe’ve written tons of in-depth and completely impartial reviews of open source software. Read our reviews.

New to Linux?

NewbieBegin your Linux journey with our easy-to-understand guide designed for newcomers.

Mega Compilations

100 GUI Apps
100 TUI Apps
100 CLI Apps

Recent Posts

  • FyshOS – lightweight but attractive Linux based OS
  • Perch – terminal social client for Mastodon and Bluesky
  • Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: BIOS
  • Mindwtr – Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity system
  • Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ping
  • TLEscope – satellite visualization tool
  • 4 Best Free and Open Source Shutdown Timers
  • ring – ping rewritten in Rust
  • Best Free and Open Source Kotlin Static Site Generators
  • BRGV-OS – custom Void Linux based distribution

Desktops

9 Best Desktops
24 KDE Themes
33 KDE Widgets
42 GNOME Extensions
Pantheon, Trinity, LXDE

Archives

Related

Contact us
Link us
FAQ
Comment FAQ
ForFOSS.com
OSSBlog.org
Privacy Policy

© LinuxLinks 1998-2026: Designed by LinuxLinks.