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Monitor System

sot – system observation tool

Updated October 9, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

sot is a Python terminal system observation tool with live resource graphs and straightforward installation through pipx or uv on Linux.

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Monitor System

xosview2 – configurable X11 system resource monitor

Updated October 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Xosview2 provides X11 system resource meters for CPU, memory, disk, network, interrupts and more, with flexible graphs and layouts.

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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 – compact system information fetcher

Updated November 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

NiTch Revived provides a compact terminal display of core system information with customisation through its source configuration.

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Circuit board

swiftfetch – configurable terminal system information tool

Updated November 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

swiftfetch displays concise operating system, CPU, kernel, memory and uptime information alongside configurable terminal ASCII artwork.

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CPU

zeptofetch – minimal terminal system information utility

Updated November 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zeptofetch provides a lightweight Linux system summary with direct system-data collection, simple colours and minimal runtime overhead.

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Monitor System

Lyvoxa Stellar – Linux system monitor

Updated November 8, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Lyvoxa Stellar is a terminal system monitor with process management, per-core CPU graphs, memory charts, network rates and themes.

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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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Sandbox Games

vengi – collection of voxel tools

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms Games

vengi is a collection of voxel tools. It includes a voxel editor with animation support and loading/saving into voxel volume formats.

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Network

Meshtastic – decentralized mesh networking ecosystem

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Meshtastic is a project that lets you use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communicator for areas without reliable cellular service.

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Configuring music

Millisecond – optimize your system for low latency audio

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Millisecond provides system diagnostics and offers tips to improve low latency performance for audio production.

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Archive Manager

HTTPDirFS – HTTP Directory Filesystem

October 18, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

HTTPDirFS is a filesystem which allows you to mount HTTP directory listings or a single file, with a permanent cache.

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ldf – report filesystem space info of devices

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ldf reports filesystem space info of devices and RAM/swap usage.

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Monitor System

dgop – system monitoring tool with CLI and REST API

Updated November 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

dgop monitors Linux processes, CPU, GPU, disks and networks using a terminal interface, CLI commands, JSON output and a REST API.

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Selection of utilities

Epicenter – ecosystem of open-source, local-first apps

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

The eventual goal is to store all of your data—notes, transcripts, chat histories—in a single folder of plain text and SQLite.

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Utility

socktop – terminal-based remote system monitor

Updated October 19, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI, Utilities

socktop is a remote system monitor with a rich TUI, inspired by top/btop, talking to a lightweight agent over WebSockets.

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Software

aurutils – helper tools for the AUR

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

aurutils is a collection of scripts to automate usage of the Arch User Repository, with different tasks such as package searching, and more.

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Circuit board

F-Fetch – lightweight system information fetcher

Updated November 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

F-Fetch reports essential system details in a compact terminal layout with extensive customisation of formatting and displayed fields.

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CPU

brokefetch – a deliberately gloomy system information fetcher

Updated November 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

brokefetch displays Linux system information with deliberately gloomy humour, CRT artwork and configurable distribution-specific logos.

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Game Tools

ProtonPlus – modern compatibility tools manager

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

ProtonPlus lets you install and manage Wine/Proton based compatibility tools with a graphical user interface.

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