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Bookmark manager tool

crumbs is a bookmarking system for the command line

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

crumbs is a command-line utility for the shell, for storing commands under a meaningful name in a hierarchy.

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System Administration

jdSystemMonitor is a desktop-independent system monitor for Linux

May 5, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

jdSystemMonitor aims to provide as much information about your system as possible, focusing on process management.

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Graphics card image

8 Best Free and Open Source NVIDIA GPU Monitoring Tools

May 2, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

nvidia-smi is a basic monitoring and management tool for NVIDIA graphics card. We explore other useful NVIDIA GPU monitoring tools.

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Graphics card image

NVIDIA System Monitor is a task manager monitoring your GPU

May 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

NVIDIA System Monitor is a simple task manager for Linux for NVIDIA graphics cards. It’s written in C++ and uses Qt.

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Database

MonetDB is a high performance relational database system for analytics

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Documents

MonetDB is an open-source column-oriented relational database management system (RDBMS).

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Database

ClickHouse is a real-time analytics database management system

April 12, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Documents

ClickHouse is a column-oriented DBMS (columnar database management system) for online analytical processing (OLAP).

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Database

DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP database management system

April 12, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Documents

DuckDB is a high-performance analytical database system. It is designed to be fast, reliable, portable, and easy to use.

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Data Science

Quarto is a scientific and technical publishing system

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Quarto is a scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc.

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Apple Messages

BlueBubbles is a cross-platform app ecosystem

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

BlueBubbles is a cross-platform ecosystem of apps aimed to bring iMessage to Android, Windows, Linux, and the Web.

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Apple Messages

OpenBubbles is a cross-platform app ecosystem

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

OpenBubbles is an open-source and cross-platform ecosystem of apps aimed to bring Apple platform services

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Find Duplicates

16 Best Free and Open Source CLI Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

This roundup focuses on free and open source command-line tools that help you find and remove duplicate files.

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Find

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dd

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to dd, a popular utility to convert and copy a file.

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Backup software

Kubackup is a file backup system built on restic

March 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Kubackup is a simple, modern Restic Web UI. It adds rich functions and ease of use to provide a more comprehensive data protection experience.

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Accountancy

Abandon – double-entry accounting system

March 22, 2025 Steve Emms Financial, GUI, TUI

Abandon is a text based, double-entry accounting system. It’s forked from ledger.

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GNU Radio is a radio ecosystem

March 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

GNU Radio is a signal processing runtime and signal processing software development toolkit.

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Command Schedulers

SysD Manager – GUI tool to manage systemd units

March 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

SysD Manager allows user to manage their systemd units via a GUI.

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10 Best Free and Open Source Snippet Tools

March 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Roundup, Utilities

A snippet tool is utility software that can boost your productivity. They are especially useful to save complex commands

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Mail Notification

Birdtray – system tray new mail notification for Thunderbird

March 10, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Birdtray is a system tray notification for new mail for Thunderbird.

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Jaeger – distributed tracing system

February 25, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Jaeger is a distributed tracing platform which lets you monitor and troubleshoot distributed workflows.

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Bioinformatics

GenomeTools – genome analysis software

February 24, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

The GenomeTools genome analysis system is a collection of bioinformatics tools (in the realm of genome informatics).

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