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CPU

bestfetch – compact and colourful terminal system fetcher

Updated November 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

bestfetch provides customisable operating system and hardware summaries with a compact, colourised terminal presentation.

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System Cleaning

Moonbit – terminal-based system cleaner

Updated October 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

Moonbit cleans Linux caches, temporary files and unused Docker data, with terminal controls, dry-run previews and scheduled maintenance.

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CPU

catnap – customizable systemfetch

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Catnap (originally known as Catnip) is a playful, simple system-information concatenation tool using Nim.

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Circuit board

Footfetch – system profiling tool

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Footfetch is a CLI utility for viewing system information, but with a twist

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Katifetch – themed and customisable system information tool

Updated November 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Katifetch displays operating system details, themed ASCII logos and configurable layouts with dedicated editions for several platforms.

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Packet – terminal multiplexer and broadcast system

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Packet is a professional terminal multiplexer and broadcast system designed specifically for network engineers and system administrators.

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PLINK – whole genome association analysis toolset

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

PLINK is a whole genome association analysis toolset. Perform a range of basic, large-scale analyses in a computationally efficient manner.

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cpx – CLI for C++ that unifies the fragmented C++ ecosystem

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

cpx provides a cohesive, Cargo-like experience for managing projects, dependencies, and builds, regardless of your underlying build system.

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Metetch – terminal system information and hardware monitoring

Updated November 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Metetch displays Linux system information and live hardware metrics including CPU, GPU, memory, disks, networking and weather.

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Find Duplicates

mmry – local-first memory system for humans and AI agents

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

mmry is a local-first memory system. Store any text and find it again with multiple search strategies, pipe it anywhere with JSON.

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Stormfetch – terminal Linux system information display

Updated November 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Stormfetch displays Linux system information beside distribution-specific ASCII artwork for an accessible terminal overview.

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Security

why2 – easy to use encryption system

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Security

why2 is billed as a lightweight, fast, secure, and easy to use encryption system.

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xpdig – tools to explore crossplane resources

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

xpdig provides a terminal based UI (similar to k9s) to interactively explore Crossplane traces

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Video-Emulators

BizHawk – multi-system emulator

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. It also has recording/playback and debugging tools.

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Machine Learning in Linux

GPTScript – build AI assistants that interact with your systems

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

GPTScript is a framework that allows Large Language Models (LLMs) to operate and interact with various systems.

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Archive Manager

Cloud Storage FUSE – user-space file system

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Cloud Storage FUSE is an open source FUSE adapter that lets you mount and access Cloud Storage buckets as local file systems.

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Yoctofetch – minimal Linux system information tool

Updated November 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Yoctofetch displays basic Linux system details in a very small executable that accesses kernel interfaces directly without libc.

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albafetch – customisable system information display

Updated November 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

albafetch presents hardware, software and operating system information in configurable Neofetch-style output with custom logos and colours.

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Revision Control

GG – GUI for the version control system Jujutsu

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

GG is a GUI for Jujutsu. It takes advantage of Jujutsu’s composable primitives to present an interactive view of your repository.

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sftpman-iced – GUI tool for sshfs and SFTP filesystems

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

sftpman-iced is a GUI application for Linux systems that makes it easy to setup and mount sshfs/SFTP filesystems.

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