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Benchmarking

elbencho – distributed storage benchmark

September 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

elbencho is a distributed storage benchmark measuring latency, throughput and IOPS across file systems, object stores, block devices and GPUs.

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amdtop – TUI system monitor designed for AMD GPUs and XDNA NPU

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software, TUI

amdtop is a terminal-based system monitor for computers powered by AMD hardware.

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Minisforum N5 Pro

Minisforum N5 Pro Review – Five-Bay NAS with Ryzen AI 9 Power

August 13, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews

Minisforum N5 Pro review with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370, NVMe storage and 10GbE networking.

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BOSGAME VTA-439

BOSGAME VTA-439 Mini PC running Linux – Easy Diffusion

June 29, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Testing Easy Diffusion on the BOSGAME VTA-439 running Linux, comparing slow CPU image generation with Radeon 890M GPU acceleration.

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Graphics card image

11 Best Free and Open Source NVIDIA GPU Monitoring Tools

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

nvidia-smi is a basic monitoring and management tool for NVIDIA graphics card. We explore other useful NVIDIA GPU monitoring tools.

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Saving Money with Linux

LACT – Linux GPU Control Application

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

LACT is a Linux GPU control application for AMD, Nvidia, and Intel graphics hardware.

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nv-monitor – lightweight terminal-based monitoring application

April 27, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI, Utilities

nv-monitor is a lightweight terminal-based monitoring application for Linux systems with NVIDIA GPUs.

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GPU Hot – real-time NVIDIA GPU monitoring dashboard

March 25, 2026 Steve Emms Web Apps

GPU Hot is a lightweight, self-hosted web dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs in real time.

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GPU-T – graphics card information utility for Linux

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

GPU-T is a modern desktop utility built with .NET and Avalonia UI designed to provide detailed information about your video card and GPU.

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Noise

qmassa – display GPU usage stats

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

qmassa is a Rust terminal-based tool for displaying GPUs usage stats on Linux.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

Survey of Image Upscaling Tools on the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Linux has lots of software with upscaling functionality, some of which offers a wider range of features than the GIMP AI plugin.

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Machine Learning

Minisforum AI X1 Pro: Jan – Chat with AI without privacy concerns

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews, Scientific

A simple real-world test of the performance of the Radeon 890M with Jan, an open source ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Stable Diffusion

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In the series I’m going to explore the GPU capabilities of the machine covering AI and gaming. Let’s start with deep learning.

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NVIDIA System Monitor is a task manager monitoring your GPU

May 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

NVIDIA System Monitor is a simple task manager for Linux for NVIDIA graphics cards. It’s written in C++ and uses Qt.

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Coding

Taichi Lang – productive, portable, and performant GPU programming

March 20, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Taichi Lang is an imperative, parallel programming language for high-performance numerical computation.

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Linux

Ghostty – feature-rich and cross-platform terminal emulator

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

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JupyterLab NVDashboard – JupyterLab extension for displaying dashboards of GPU usage

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

JupyterLab NVDashboard is a JupyterLab extension for displaying GPU usage dashboards.

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Graphics card image

NVTOP – (h)top like task monitor for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA GPUs

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

NVTOP (Neat Videocard TOP) is an (h)top like task monitor for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA GPUs.

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Graphics card image

nvidia-htop – enriches the output of nvidia-smi

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

nvidia-htop is a tool for enriching the output of nvidia-smi. This is free and open source software written in Python.

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Graphics card image

gpustat – query and monitor GPU status

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

gpustat is a simple command-line utility for querying and monitoring GPU status. gpustat works only with NVIDIA Graphics Devices only.

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