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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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Tools that help you

halp is a CLI tool to get help with CLI tools

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

halp aims to help find the correct arguments for command-line tools by checking the predefined list of commonly used options/flags.

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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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Tools that help you

eg provides examples of common uses of command line tools

January 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

eg will give you useful examples right at the command line. Think of it as a companion tool for man.

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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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Command Schedulers

systemctl-tui – interact with systemd services

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

systemctl-tui is a fast, simple TUI for interacting with systemd services and their logs.

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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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System network administration

KatharĂ¡ – lightweight network emulation system

January 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

KatharĂ¡ is a lightweight network emulation system based on Docker containers. It’s 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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Web Content Management Systems

Pages CMS – content management system for static site generators

December 23, 2024 Steve Emms Web Apps

Pages CMS is a content management system for GitHub. It is well suited for static site generators (e.g. Jekyll, Next.js, VuePress, Hugo).

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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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Find Duplicates

6 Best Free GUI Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

We feature free and open source software that lets you find and remove the duplicate files.

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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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CSS

Primer – GitHub’s design system

December 16, 2024 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

The goal of this project is to create a system that enables GitHub to build consistent user experiences with ease.

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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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