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TimeShift – System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS

TimeShift is an open source system restore utility which takes incremental snapshots of the system using rsync and hard-links. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo all changes that were made to the system after the

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MKVToolNix – Matroska tools

December 6, 2017 Steve Emms Multimedia

MKVToolNix is a set of free and open source tools for the Matroska media container format by Moritz Bunkus including mkvmerge.

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Log Analyzers

Chukwa – data collection system for monitoring large distributed systems

November 20, 2017 Steve Emms System Software

Chukwa is a data collection system for managing large distributed systems. It is a Hadoop subproject.

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8 Essential Free Graphics Tools

November 19, 2017 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Linux is a promising platform for artists, photographers, animators, and designers. With low cost hardware, good free software, and a modicum of natural ability and dedication, anyone can generate professional-looking computer graphics.

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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2019

December 23, 2019 Steve Emms Software, System Software

We’ve run through our statistics, and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2019.

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Terminal Emulators

kitty – hardware-accelerated terminal emulator

October 11, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

kitty offers GPU-acceleration and is targeted at power keyboard users. It’s billed as a modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator. Here’s a concise review of this terminal emulator.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: lnav – the log file navigator

April 22, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

This is the second in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities including tools that boost your productivity, help you manage your workflow, and lots more besides. For this article, we’ll put lnav under the spotlight.

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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2018

December 24, 2018 Steve Emms Software, System Software

It’s common knowledge that Christmas is a time for merriment, goodwill to all people, and above all a time for lists. So there’s no better time to compile a roundup for the year. We’ve run through our statistics, and found our ten most well received posts that saw the highest page views this year.

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Linux Distributions

PluriOS – Bolivian Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS

March 29, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

PluriOS is an open-source project that aims to standardize a Linux desktop environment for Bolivia.

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Data Tools

DDRescue-GUI – frontend for ddrescue

March 28, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

DDRescue-GUI is a graphical frontend for ddrescue designed to simplify the process of recovering data from failing storage devices.

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Economics

7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Econometric Software

March 26, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Roundup, Scientific

Econometrics is the application of statistical or quantitative methods to understand economic issues and test theories, and models.

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GPU Hot – real-time NVIDIA GPU monitoring dashboard

March 25, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

GPU Hot is a lightweight, self-hosted web dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs in real time.

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Find Duplicates

Periscope – organize storage and safely remove redundant files

March 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Periscope is a command-line duplicate file finder that helps you organize storage and safely remove redundant files without losing data.

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Find Duplicates

Go Find Duplicates – scans directories for duplicate files and directories

March 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Go Find Duplicates is a command-line utility that scans directories for duplicate files and directories.

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Dentry – keyboard-driven file manager

March 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Dentry is a minimal, keyboard-driven file manager for Linux built with Qt6.

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Backup software

cecup – GUI backup tool based on rsync

March 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

cecup is a graphical backup and directory synchronisation tool built around rsync.

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strace-tui – explore strace output

March 20, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

strace-tui is a terminal user interface (TUI) for visualizing and exploring strace output.

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batctl – battery charge threshold manager for Linux laptops

March 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, TUI, Utilities

batctl is a terminal UI and CLI tool that lets you control battery charge thresholds on Linux.

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SSD

diskard – TUI disk analyser

March 17, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

diskard is a developer-focused CLI utility that scans a system for reclaimable disk space created by development tools and environments.

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Monitor System

logana – fast terminal log viewer

March 16, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

logana is a fast terminal log viewer and analyzer designed to work efficiently with very large log files, including multi-GB logs

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