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Encryption software

File Lock PEA – filesystem-level encryption

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms Security

File Lock PEA (PEA = Password Encrypting Archive) encrypts data at the filesystem level

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Hypervisors

Boxes – view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Boxes is a simple GNOME application to view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems.

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Bats – Bash Automated Testing System

February 1, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework. It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs you write behave as expected.

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Monitor System

xfce4-taskmanager – monitor system resources

January 31, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

xfce4-taskmanager is an easy to use task manager.

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Monitor System

Evisum – Enlightenment system monitor

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Evisum is a system monitor using Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL).

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YASnippet – template system for Emacs

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

YASnippet is a template system for Emacs. It allows you to type an abbreviation and automatically expand it into function templates.

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Command Schedulers

sysz – fzf terminal UI for systemctl

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

sysz is an fzf terminal UI for systemctl. This is public domain software.

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Linux

Zutty – high-end terminal emulator for low-end systems

January 18, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Zutty is a terminal emulator with a radically simple, yet extremely efficient rendering implementation.

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System

Topgrade – system specific update tool

January 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Topgrade detects which tools you use and runs the appropriate commands to update them.

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Circuit board

Archey 4 – simple system information tool

January 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Archey is a simple system information tool written in Python.

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Development Tools

SrTemplate – string template system

December 31, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

Mr. strings template (SrTemplate) is a library that allows you to render just text templates. It’s written in Rust.

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Monitor System

Plasma System Monitor – monitoring tool

December 20, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Plasma System Monitor provides an interface for monitoring system sensors, process information and other system resources.

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Monitor System

System Monitor – view and manage system resources

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

System Monitor is a process viewer and system monitor with an attractive, easy-to-use interface.

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Monitor System

Resources – monitor system resources

December 16, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Resources allows you to check the utilization of your system resources and control your running processes and apps.

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Monitor System

Monitorets – system resource monitor

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Monitorets is a small utility application offering a simple and quick view at the usage of several of your computer resources.

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Monitor System

tiptop – command-line system monitoring

November 30, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tiptop is a command-line system monitoring tool in the spirit of top. It displays various interesting system stats and graphs them.

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Laptop

system76-power – utility for managing graphics and power profiles

November 19, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

system76-power offers power profile management for Linux.

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dfc – report file system space usage information

November 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dfc is a tool to report file system space usage information. When the output is a terminal, it uses color and graphs by default.

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CPUFreq – system monitor and power manager

October 24, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

CPUFreq is a lightweight CPU scaling monitor and a powerful CPU management tool using standard cpufreq kernel modules

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TuneD – daemon for monitoring and adaptive tuning of system devices

October 23, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux.

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