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Category: Utilities

Application Launchers

AIDM – create desktop shortcuts to AppImage applications

January 30, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

AppImage Desktop Maker (AIDM) is simple software that creates desktop shortcuts to .AppImage applications.

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Application Launchers

AppImageLauncher – integrate AppImages to your application launcher

January 19, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

AppImageLauncher is C++ software which integrates AppImages to your application launcher with a single click.

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System Administration

bauh – manage your Linux applications

January 18, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

bauh is a graphical interface that lets you manage your software.

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Application Launchers

Gear Lever – utility to manage AppImages

January 12, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Gear Lever is a Python utility which lets us manage AppImages.

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Google Translate Alternatives

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Translate

December 23, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service that translates text and websites from one language into another.

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Christmas

Linux Candy: christmasfetch – a festive command-line utility

December 22, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

As Christmas is fast approaching, it’s the right time for a small festive utility. Step forward christmasfetch.

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Monitor System

ttop – system monitoring with historical snapshots

November 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

ttop is a system monitoring tool with historical snapshots and alerts. It has a top-like TUI. It’s written in Nim.

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Start up

rEFInd – EFI boot manager

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

rEFInd is a boot manager, meaning that it presents a menu of options to the user when the computer first starts up.

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Start up

Plymouth – boot splash and boot logger

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Plymouth provides a splash screen and progress updates during early boot.

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Start up

bootchart2 – merge of bootchart-collector and pybootchartgui

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

bootchart2 is a merge of bootchart-collector and pybootchartgui.

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Start up

OProfile – statistical profiler

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

OProfile is a low-overhead, transparent system-wide profiler for Linux, capable of instruction-grain profiling of all processes.

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Start up

Grub Customizer – configure the GRUB2/BURG settings and menu entries

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to alter the Grub 2 settings. It focuses on the individual list order without losing grub’s dynamical behavior.

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Start up

e4rat – Ext4 – Reducing Access Times

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

e4rat (“Ext4 – Reducing Access Times”) is a toolset to accelerate the boot process as well as application startups.

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Home Automation

HEYU – X10 automation software

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

HEYU controls X10 lighting and appliances from the command line, with CM11A schedules, radio receivers, signal monitoring and automation.

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Home Automation

Minerva – home automation suite

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Minerva combines X10 home automation with multimedia control, web applets, timed routines and remote access in a legacy system.

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Home Automation

MisterHouse – home automation software

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

MisterHouse automates X10, Insteon and other connected devices with programmable events, web control, MQTT and voice features.

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Home Automation

BottleRocket – home automation software for the X10 FireCracker kit

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

BottleRocket controls legacy X10 FireCracker transmitters from the Linux command line, including appliance switching and lighting.

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Home Automation

BlueLava – CGI interface for X10 home automation

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

BlueLava offers a browser-based CGI interface for legacy X10 equipment, using HEYU and other command-line control utilities.

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Flash OS

Etcher – flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Etcher is an image burner with multi-platform support. It makes USB and SD card image burning as effortless as possible.

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Flash OS

MultiBootUSB – create multi boot live Linux on a removable USB disk

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

MultiBootUSB is software to create multi boot live Linux on a removable USB disk. Similar to UNetbootin but many distros can be installed

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