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Category: Utilities

Command Schedulers

KCron – graphical front end to the standard cron utility

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

KCron is KDE’s task scheduler. It is written in the C++ programming language and is published under an open source license.

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Command Schedulers

KTimer – execute programs after some time

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

KTimer is a little tool to execute programs. The software lets you to enter several tasks and to set a timer for each of them.

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Command Schedulers

FcronQ – Fcron GUI

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

FcronQ is an Fcron GUI for Linux. Fcron is an advanced periodic command scheduler. This is free and open source software.

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Command Schedulers

Zeit – Qt frontend to crontab and at

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Zeit is a Qt frontend to crontab and at. This is free and open source software written in the C++ programming language.

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Command Schedulers

GNOME Schedule – graphical user interface (GUI) tool that leverages the power of cron

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

GNOME Schedule is a graphical front end for the ‘crontab’ and ‘at’ tools. GNOME Schedule is free and open source software.

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Benchmarking

HardInfo – small system administration tool

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

HardInfo is a small utility that displays information about your hardware and operating system. It’s a system profiler and benchmark.

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Benchmarking

netperf – networking benchmark software

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure the performance of many different types of networking. It’s free and open source software.

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Benchmarking

IOzone – filesystem benchmark tool

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

IOzone is a free and open source filesystem benchmark tool that generates and measures a wide variety of file operations.

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Benchmarking

Phoronix Test Suite – automated benchmarking

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

The Phoronix Test Suite is an open source comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform that provides an extensible framework.

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Benchmarking

fio – scriptable I/O tool for storage benchmarks and drive testing

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fio allows benchmarking specific disk IO workloads. It can issue its IO requests using one of many synchronous and asynchronous IO APIs.

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Benchmarking

sysbench – scriptable database and system performance benchmark

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on LuaJIT. sysbench is free and open source software. It’s written in C.

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Benchmarking

Bonnie++ – benchmark suite software

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms System Software, Utilities

Bonnie++ is an open source benchmark suite that is aimed at performing a number of simple tests of hard drive and file system performance.

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GNOME Disks – view, modify and configure disks and media

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

GNOME Disks is free and open source software to inspect, format, partition and configure disks and block devices.

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Benchmarking

LLCbench – low level architectural characterization benchmark suite

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Low Level Architectural Characterization Benchmark Suite (LLCbench) is a suite of three different benchmark applications.

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Files

Xplorer is a modern file explorer written in TypeScript

October 4, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Xplorer is a modern take on the navigational file manager. It’s free and open source software written in TypeScript and Rust.

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Benchmarking

KDiskMark – HDD and SSD benchmark tool

October 3, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

KDiskMark is an HDD and SSD benchmark tool with a very friendly graphical user interface. It’s free and open source software.

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Benchmarking

stress-ng – stress next generation

October 3, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

stress-ng is designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a computer as well as the various operating system kernel interfaces.

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Benchmarking

GtkStressTesting – stress and monitor hardware components

October 3, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

GtkStressTesting (GST) is a GTK system utility designed to stress and monitor various hardware components like CPU and RAM.

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Linux Candy: pscircle visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree

September 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

pscircle is a different take on the venerable ps command. It visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree.

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Flash OS

USBImager – cross-platform disk image writer

September 25, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

USBImager is a very simple GUI application that writes compressed disk images to USB drives.

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