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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Boot Utilities

March 1, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

Here’s 8 useful boot utility tools. They are all free and open source software.

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9 Best Free and Open Source Tools to Search the Filesystem

July 12, 2024 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

Desktop search is a software application which searches the contents of computer files, rather than searching the internet.

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Awesome Linux Game Tools: libstrangle – frame rate limiter

July 5, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software

libstrangle is a Linux utility that lets you cap the FPS of a game. It’s free and open source software written in C.

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Awesome Linux Game Tools: Heroic Games Launcher – GOG and Epic Games

November 7, 2022 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Utilities

Heroic Games Launcher (“Heroic”) is a free and open source games launcher for Epic Games and GOG. It’s a cross-platform tool.

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Excellent System Utilities: CPU-X – system profiler tool

September 30, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

CPU-X is a similar tool to the Windows utility CPU-Z. Unlike CPU-Z, CPU-X is free and open source Linux software. Here’s our review.

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bat – super charged cat – my favorite colorizer

August 22, 2018 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Reviews, Software, Utilities

bat is a drop-in replacement for the cat command adding advanced syntax highlighting and Git integration to show file modifications. It’s a really useful utility that is a massive leap up from cat. bat’s written in the Rust programming language.

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