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Alligator – feed reader for mobile devices

November 20, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, News, Reviews

Alligator is a convergent, cross-platform feed reader, supporting standard RSS/Atom feeds. It’s built using KDE Frameworks and Qt

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Backrest – web UI and orchestrator for restic backup

April 28, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software, Web Apps

Backrest is a web-accessible backup solution built on top of restic. Backrest provides a WebUI which wraps the restic CLI. Here’s our review.

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Excellent Utilities: noti – notification tool

August 7, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

noti is a small tool written in Go that monitors a command or process and triggers a notification.

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Linux Candy: pscircle visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree

September 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

pscircle is a different take on the venerable ps command. It visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree.

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Miller – small and powerful CLI tool to do all your data processing

June 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for data formats such as CSV, TSV, JSON, JSON Lines, and positionally-indexed.

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Essential System Tools: Krusader – KDE file manager

January 16, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

Krusader is an advanced, twin-panel (commander-style) file manager designed for KDE Plasma. Krusader also runs on other popular Linux desktop environments such as GNOME.

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34 Best Free Linux Backup Software (Updated 2023)

January 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, Roundup, System Software, Utilities

Backup software is used to perform a complete back up of a file, data, database, system or server. Here’s the best open source backup software.

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Archive Manager

8 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Linux Archive Managers

August 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Linux has a good range of free and open source archive managers. We feature the best graphical archive managers.

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Blackbox – window manager

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Blackbox is a window manager for the X Window System. Its design is meant to be visually minimalist and fast.

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NLP Architect – Deep Learning NLP/NLU library

October 3, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

NLP Architect is an open source Python library for exploring state-of-the-art deep learning topologies and techniques for NLP and NLU.

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