In this roundup we focus on useful tools that help you work out the amount of memory used by programs.
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Benchmarking the Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer
I put the Orange Pi 6 Plus through a series of benchmarks and compare its results to a variety of its competitors.
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Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption
I subject the Minisforum M890 Pro to a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.
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Benchmarking the Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC
The Minisforum UM890 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS processor. I put it through various benchmark tests
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Benchmarking the HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop in Linux
I put a refurbished HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop through a series of benchmarks comparing it to other machines.
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Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux – Introduction to the Series
The Minisforum UM890 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen 9 Pro 8945HS processor with integrated Radeon 780M graphics.
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HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Specifications in detail
Let’s look at the specifications of the laptop in more detail. I’ll use a popular system profiler, inxi, to help delve into the laptop’s specs.
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Orange Pi 6 Plus Running Linux: Introduction to the Series
This is the first article in a new series looking at the latest piece of kit from Orange Pi. It’s the Orange Pi 6 Plus development board.
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HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Introduction to the Series
This is a new series looking at running Linux on a refurbished HP laptop.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: October 2025 Updates
October 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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MatteriaTrack – mystical Final Fantasy-themed CLI time tracker
MatteriaTrack is a mystical Final Fantasy-themed CLI time tracker for power users.
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MajUSB Bootable Creator – USB bootable drives
MajUSB Bootable Creator is a modern, cross-platform USB bootable drive creator written in Rust with a GTK4 GUI.
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venera – comic app
venera is a comic reader that support reading local and network comics.
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AltSendme – send files and folders anywhere in the world
AltSendme is a file transfer tool that harnesses the power of cutting-edge peer-to-peer networking
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: grep
This article spotlights alternative tools to grep, a utility that searches for patterns in each file.
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Lobster – statically typed programming language
Lobster is a statically typed programming language with a Python-esque syntax
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grok – tool like UNIX grep on steroids
grok is a tool like UNIX grep on steroids. Often regular expressions become huge and vague.
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Print(Notes) – Markdown notes app
Print(Notes) is a cross-platform markdown notes app inspired by Google Keep and Obsidian, made with Flutter.
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Horizon – opinionated fork of F-Chat Rising
Horizon is an opinionated fork of F-Chat Rising, a defunct heavily customized version of the mainline F-Chat 3.0 client.
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labelme – image polygonal annotation
Labelme is a graphical image annotation tool. It’s written in Python and uses Qt for its graphical interface.
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Seabird – Kubernetes IDE designed for the GNOME desktop
Seabird is a native desktop app that simplifies working with Kubernetes.
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Aurynk – Android device manager for Linux
Aurynk (Aura + Sync, pronounced “aw-rink”) makes managing your Android devices from Linux simple and wireless.
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Koreo – platform engineering toolkit for Kubernetes
Koreo is a Platform Engineering toolkit focused on making the Platform Engineer’s life easier so that they can focus on making product developers lives’ easier.
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goup – Go version manager
goup is an elegant Go version manager.
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Parm – cross-platform binary installer
Parm is a cross-platform binary installer with a package manager-esque workflow. Install any program from GitHub via their REST API.
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ty – Python type checker
ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust.
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Joker – small Clojure interpreter, linter and formatter
Joker is a small Clojure interpreter, linter and formatter written in Go.
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spectroterm – curses based terminal spectrum analyzer
spectroterm is a curses based terminal spectrum analyzer for currently playing audio.
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tray-tui – system tray implementation
tray-tui brings system tray functionality to the terminal, displaying tray menus as interactive trees.
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