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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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Video

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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turm – interface for the Slurm Workload Manager

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

turm is a text-based user interface (TUI) for the Slurm Workload Manager, which provides a convenient way to manage your cluster jobs.

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SQL

squawk – linter for Postgres migrations & SQL

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

squawk aims to prevent unexpected downtime caused by database migrations and encourage best practices around Postgres schemas and SQL.

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SQL

Conar – AI-powered tool to simplify database interactions

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms Database, GUI

Store your connections securely in the cloud and ask AI to help you write and optimize SQL queries.

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044-time management

Taskmaster – keep track of time

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Taskmaster is a terminal app to keep track of time worked and a simple todo list.

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clrsync – color scheme manager

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, GUI

clrsync allows to define color palettes once and apply them consistently to all configurable applications.

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File Managers

FolderHost – share files

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

FolderHost is a self-hosted cloud platform in a single binary. Share files, collaborate in real-time, and manage users with zero dependencies.

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Folder

Veretino – folder integrity checker

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Veretino lets you verify the integrity of both individual files and entire lists. Analyze the contents of folders, calculate checksums, and more.

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YouTube

MeTube – self-hosted YouTube downloader

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

MeTube is a Web GUI for youtube-dl (using the yt-dlp fork) with playlist support. Download videos from YouTube and dozens of other sites.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Toad – unified interface for AI

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific, TUI

Toad is a unified interface for AI in your terminal. Run coding agents seamlessly under a single beautiful terminal UI.

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16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Medical Imaging Software

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Medical imaging is an essential, non-invasive, routine activity performed by radiographers and radiologic technologists.

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Linux

fortty – terminal emulator

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Utilities

fortty is a new GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.

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Documents

lla – fast ls replacement with superpowers

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lla is a modern ls replacement that transforms how developers interact with their filesystem.

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