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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: uname

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to uname, a command-line utility that prints system information.

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Fastfetch – neofetch-like tool for fetching system information

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Fastfetch is a neofetch-like tool for fetching system information and displaying them in a pretty way.

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Freshfetch – fresh take on Neofetch

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Freshfetch is an alternative to Neofetch written in Rust with a focus on customization. It’s MIT licensed software.

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Stacking Window Managers

22 Best Free and Open Source Stacking Window Managers

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

Stacking window managers (also known as floating window managers) draw all windows in a specific order, allowing them to overlap.

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whoami – user information

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

whoami displays the username, full name, email address and GitHub username of the current user. It’s written in R.

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w – displays information about the users currently on the machine

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

w displays information about the users currently on the machine, and their processes. w is written in the C language.

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Command Schedulers

Gcron – handles your cron configuration

August 29, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Gcron is a graphical frontend for cron. This tool handles your cron configuration. It’s written in the Vala language.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel WinZip

August 27, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

WinZip is a file archiver and compressor. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

Walk is a simple and minimalistic terminal navigator

August 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

walk is billed as a terminal file manager and a terminal navigator.

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Archive Manager

DarGUI – graphical frontend for DAR

August 26, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

DarGUI is a graphical frontend for the Disk ARchiving utility (DAR) that aims to make it easier and quicker to perform common backup tasks.

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Automation

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Script Editor

August 26, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Script Editor (also known as AppleScript Editor) is a code editor that lets you create powerful scripts, tools and even apps.

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Application Launchers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Launchpad

August 26, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Apple Launchpad is a central location where you can view all your apps and easily open them. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Hard drive utility

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple DiskImageMounter

August 25, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

DiskImageMounter is a utility that takes care of disk volume images. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ftp

August 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternative tools to ftp, a network protocol used for transferring files from one computer system to another.

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Game Tools

Awesome Linux Game Tools: GOverlay

August 23, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Utilities

GOverlay is a GUI tool used to manage MangoHud, vkBasalt and ReplaySorcery on Linux.

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Fonts

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Fonts

August 18, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Google Fonts is a font and web font service. It offers font families and an interactive web directory. We recommend open source alternatives.

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YTalk – multi-user chat program

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

YTalk is in essence a multi-user chat program supporting both talk and ntalk protocols.

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utalk – UDP-based talk

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

utalk is a one-to-one text chat program alternative to the Unix ‘talk’ client, which uses a more responsive protocol built over UDP (instead of TCP).

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ntalk – chat application

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ntalk is a chat application. It is designed to be much more friendly than Unix talk and provide a nice console interface.

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Text Editor

10 Best Free and Open Source Neovim GUIs

August 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

Neovim’s RPC support lets developers create new front-ends (GUIs) for Neovim that are outside of the terminal. We make our recommendations.

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