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Logfile Viewer

LogNote – graphical viewer for files and Android logcat

September 26, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

LogNote explores files and Android logcat output with regex filters, custom columns, bookmarks and automated event triggers.

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Logfile Viewer

Giant Log Viewer – view extremely large log files

September 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Giant Log Viewer opens enormous text files with modest memory usage, offering drag-and-drop opening and keyboard-driven navigation.

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Docker

podman-tui – terminal user interface for Podman environments

September 25, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

podman-tui is a keyboard-driven interface for managing local and remote Podman containers, pods, images, volumes, networks and secrets.

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Logfile Viewer

Logalize – extensible log colorizer

September 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Logalize is a fast, extensible log colorizer with configurable formats, patterns, words and themes.

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

cockpit-podman – web interface for managing Podman containers

September 24, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

cockpit-podman is a web-based Cockpit interface for creating, controlling and monitoring Podman containers, pods, images and Quadlets.

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Logfile Viewer

Journal Viewer – graphical application for systemd events

September 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Journal Viewer is a graphical desktop application for exploring systemd events with activity charts, quick searches and advanced filters.

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Selection of utilities

emplace – synchronize installed packages across multiple machines

September 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

emplace synchronizes installed packages across machines, tracks package installations from the shell, uses Git, and can also manage configuration files.

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Command Schedulers

sdctl – security-focused TUI for managing systemd services

September 16, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

sdctl is a security-focused TUI for managing systemd services with polkit authentication, fuzzy search, log browsing and unit editing.

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Command Schedulers

systemd_commander – terminal tools for managing systemd services

September 16, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

systemd_commander provides ncurses interfaces for managing systemd units and inspecting service events with live views and filters.

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Linux Distributions

Fedora IoT – container-based Linux distribution for edge devices

September 12, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

Fedora IoT is a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed as a foundation for Internet of Things and edge computing deployments.

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Linux Distributions

Fedora CoreOS – minimal container-focused Linux distribution

September 7, 2026 Erik Karlsson Distro

Fedora CoreOS is a minimal, automatically updating Fedora Linux distribution designed to run containerised workloads securely at scale.

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Selection of utilities

reeve – local web development stack manager

September 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Web Apps

reeve is a Rust TUI and CLI for managing a local web development stack with web servers, PHP-FPM, databases, DNS, SSL, and traffic monitoring.

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Selection of utilities

rwx – TUI file permissions and ownership manager

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

rwx is a Rust TUI for inspecting and changing Unix file permissions and ownership, with octal editing, special bits, previews, and recursive mode.

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Graphics card image

NviWatch – interactive NVIDIA GPU monitoring in the terminal

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

NviWatch displays live NVIDIA GPU and process metrics in a terminal, with graph layouts, process controls and InfluxDB logging.

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Data Tools

18 Best Free and Open Source Linux Data Recovery Tools

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

The software featured in this article are high quality standalone Linux tools which help you to recover data in a range of circumstances.

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Cloud

KDash – terminal-based Kubernetes dashboard

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

KDash offers an interactive Kubernetes terminal dashboard with resource management, live logs, performance metrics and workload troubleshooting.

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Dashboard

Apache HertzBeat – observability platform

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, Web Apps

Apache HertzBeat unifies infrastructure monitoring, metrics, logs, alerting, custom collectors and configurable service status pages.

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Dashboard

Checkmate – self-hosted infrastructure monitoring application

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, Web Apps

Checkmate monitors websites, network services and infrastructure, with response-time history, incident alerts and public status pages.

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Dashboard

Gatus – developer-oriented status dashboard

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, Web Apps

Gatus provides configurable health checks for HTTP and other protocols, with dashboard status reporting, conditions, alerts and metrics.

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Server

MAAS – automated bare metal server provisioning

June 8, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

MAAS turns physical servers into manageable infrastructure resources with automated discovery, commissioning, deployment and networking.

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