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SSD

diskus – compute disk usage

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diskus is a very simple program that computes the total size of the current directory. It is a parallelized version of du -sh..

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Subiquity – installer framework for Ubuntu

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Subiquity is also the back end for the Ubuntu Desktop installer.

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Monitor System

vtop – graphical activity monitor for the command line

December 2, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vtop uses drawille to draw CPU and memory charts with Unicode braille characters, helping you visualize spikes.

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Backup software

osync – two way filesync script

December 2, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

osync is a two way filesync script running on Bash. It offers local-local and local-remote sync, full script time control and more.

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TTV – term-task-viewer

December 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

TTV is a lightweight terminal tool to manage processes in Unix machines.

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auto-cpufreq – automatic CPU speed and power optimizer

November 30, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

auto-cpufreq is an automatic CPU and power optimizer actively monitoring laptop battery state, CPU usage, CPU temperature, and system load.

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Monitor System

below – time traveling resource monitor

November 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

below is an interactive tool to view and record historical system data.

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cpupower – Linux kernel tool

November 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

cpupower is a kernel tool which examines and tunes power saving related of your processor. It shows and set processor power related values.

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Backup software

YARsync – Yet Another Rsync

November 29, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

YARsync – Yet Another Rsync is a file synchronization and backup tool written in Python.

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Linux Distributions

Zenwalk – desktop-focused Linux distribution

November 29, 2024 Erik Karlsson Distro

Zenwalk aims to be a modern, multi-purpose Linux distribution by focusing on internet applications, multimedia and programming tools.

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Documentation

del-cli – delete files and directories

November 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

del-cli is a command-line utility that lets you delete files and directories.

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Backup software

Syncthing – continuous file synchronization program

November 25, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers.

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Desktop Environments

NsCDE – Not so Common Desktop Environment

November 25, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop

NsCDE is a modern and functional CDE desktop based on the FVWM window manager.

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Mousam – weather at a glance

November 25, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific

Mousam is a GUI-based app that provides you with weather forecast information.

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Session – private messenger with no central servers

November 23, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Session is a new breed of private messenger, built on a unique network of user-operated servers around the world

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Vosk – offline speech recognition toolkit

November 23, 2024 Steve Emms Scientific

Vosk is an offline speech recognition toolkit. It enables speech recognition for 20+ languages and dialects

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Testing Software

egui – immediate mode GUI

November 22, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

egui (pronounced “e-gooey”) is a simple, fast, and highly portable immediate mode GUI library for Rust

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SimpleX – private and encrypted messenger

November 22, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

SimpleX is a messaging platform that has no user identifiers of any kind – 100% private by design.

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Security

Nosey Parker – find secrets in textual data

November 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Nosey Parker is a command-line program that finds secrets and sensitive information in textual data and Git history.

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News

CAST-text – full-text rss terminal reader

November 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Reviews

CAST-text is billed as a zero latency, easy-to-use full-text rss terminal reader. This is free and open source software written in Go.

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