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Caligula – write disk images to removable media

May 30, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Caligula is a terminal user interface for writing disk images to removable media.

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Selection of utilities

bmaptool – dd for embedded projects

May 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bmaptool is a command-line utility for creating block map files and using them to copy or flash raw disk images efficiently.

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ddrescueview examines ddrescue’s mapfiles

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

ddrescueview is a small tool that allows users to graphically examine ddrescue’s mapfiles in a user friendly GUI application.

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dcfldd – enhanced version of dd

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dcfldd is an enhanced version of dd with features useful for forensics and security. dcfldd is free and open source software.

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kindd – dd GUI

June 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

kindd is billed as a kindful dd. It’s written using Qt Quick, a software application framework. Open source software.

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dd_rescue – data recovery and data protection tool

June 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dd_rescue copies data from one file or block device to another. You can specify file positions (called seek and Skip in dd).

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ddi – wrapper for dd

May 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ddi (or dd-interactive) is a wrapper for dd. It’s free and open source software written in the Rust programming language.

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AWOW AK41 - Benchmarking

AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – Running Linux – Benchmarks – Week 2

July 15, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Hardware, Mini PC

This article benchmarks the AWOW AK41 Mini PC with three other systems to put the results into context. All the tests use the Phoronix Test Suite unless stated. This is the second article in a series focusing on the AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC.

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