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Monitor System

Xosview2 – X11 system monitor

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI

Xosview2 is a lightweight program that gathers information from your operating system and displays it in graphical form.

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Essential System Utils

7 Best Free and Open Source Process Memory Tools

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

In this roundup we focus on useful tools that help you work out the amount of memory used by programs.

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Selection of utilities

tray-tui – system tray implementation

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

tray-tui brings system tray functionality to the terminal, displaying tray menus as interactive trees.

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Circuit board

NiTch Revived – fast system fetch

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

NiTch Revived is a small and incredibly fast system fetch written fully in Nim without any dependencies.

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Hard disk image

5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Partitioning Tools

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

Disk partitioning is the means of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions.

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stown – manage file system object mapping via symlinks

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

stown manages file system object mapping via symlinks. It was inspired by Stow, which was found very useful but too unwieldy.

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Natural Language Processing

corpustools – various tools for analyzing text corpora

November 24, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

The corpustools package offers various tools for anayzing text corpora.

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Natural Language Processing

RTextTools – automatic text classification via supervised learning

November 24, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

RTextTools is a machine learning package for automatic text classification that makes it simple to get started with machine learning.

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Natural Language Processing

textclean – collection of tools to clean and normalize text

November 23, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

textclean is a collection of tools to clean and normalize text. Many of these tools have been taken from the qdap package

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Saving Money with Linux

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Power Management Tools

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

There’s a good range of Linux software which helps to reduce the running cost of your computer. We feature the finest tools.

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Circuit board

swiftfetch – simple system information fetch tool

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

swiftfetch is a fast and simple system information fetch tool written in Rust. It displays various system information like OS, CPU, RAM usage

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CPU

zeptofetch – ultra-minimal system information tool

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zeptofetch delivers system information in under 2ms* with a 28KB binary*. No scripts, no bloat, just pure C doing exactly what you need.

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Monitor System

Lyvoxa Stellar – Linux system monitor

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Built in Rust, it aims to offer an intuitive Terminal User Interface (TUI) with advanced features for modern system administration.

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SQL

19 Best Free and Open Source Linux MySQL Tools

November 15, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

This article identifies 19 open source tools which help to reduce the complexity associated with the powerful database software.

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LAN

6 Useful Free and Open Source Wake-on-LAN Tools

November 14, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Wake-on-LAN is an ethernet networking standard that lets a computer to be turned on or awakened from a low-power state by a network message.

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SSD

Essential Utilities: Reclaiming Disk Space (GUI Tools)

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

Linux offers an unsurpassed breadth of open source small utilities that perform functions ranging from the mundane to the wonderful. These tools help make Linux a compelling operating system.

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Selection of utilities

mirro-rs – mirrorlist manager for Arch Linux systems

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mirro-rs provides a TUI to help you better visualise managing your mirrorlist.

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Selection of utilities

UnifiedPush – decentralized push notification system

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

UnifiedPush is a decentralized push notification system that lets you choose the service you want to use.

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Command Schedulers

ServiceMaster – powerful terminal-based tool for managing systemd units

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

ServiceMaster is a powerful terminal-based tool for managing Systemd units on Linux systems.

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Groupware

ii – minimalist FIFO and filesystem-based IRC client

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ii creates an irc directory tree with server, channel and nick name directories.

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