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kmon is a Linux kernel manager and activity monitor available through Cargo, Arch Linux, Nixpkgs, Alpine Linux and Docker, with a manual installation option. The site also provides background on kernel function and design.
Linux Command Library is a project offering a GUI and CLI app for browsing Linux manual pages and terminal tips. The app has 9257 manual pages, 30+ basic categories and general terminal tips. It works fully offline without an internet connection and has no tracking software. Native CLI and GUI binaries are available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
Beginner-friendly Linux course covering command line, filesystems, permissions, networking, and processes.
Linux Roadmap is a step-by-step guide to learning Linux in 2026, hosted on the roadmap.sh platform. roadmap.sh provides community-created roadmaps, best practices, projects, articles, resources, and learning journeys to help users select career paths and develop professional skills.
Linux support forum for troubleshooting distributions, hardware, software, and command-line issues.
A cheat sheet of Mac Terminal commands covering navigation, file operations, and search, including pwd, ls, cd, cat, head, tail, less, mkdir, touch, cp, mv, rm, man and open. It lists flags, examples and keyboard shortcuts for each command.
macchina is a system information frontend with an emphasis on performance, available for Linux, macOS, Windows, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenWrt and Android. It displays system information such as kernel version, uptime, memory usage and processor load. It is described as basic by default and customizable by design, with a theming system kept outside the configuration file. The project is in maintenance mode, accepting only bug fixes and documentation improvements.
The Arch Linux manual pages website (man.archlinux.org) is a repository of manual pages from Arch Linux packages. It contains 83,516 manual pages and 8,793 symbolic links sourced from 3,776 packages, while 11,705 packages lack indexable manual pages. The site organizes pages into traditional sections and provides search forms to locate pages by name, description, or package.
Medicat Installer is a Windows application that installs or updates Ventoy, optionally formats a USB drive as NTFS, extracts MediCat and verifies files by MD5. A native C++ build replaces earlier batch scripts, and a shell script for Linux remains on a separate branch.
MiddleClick is an open source command-line or Unix tool for terminal workflows and system use.
Nushell is a cross-platform shell that works on Linux, macOS, BSD, and Windows. Its pipelines use structured data, and it reads formats including JSON, YAML, SQLite, and Excel. It operates on typed data and offers a plugin system for extension. Nushell is available as downloadable binaries, through package managers, in a GitHub Action, and as source code.
Nushell is a shell that treats each input as structured data rather than raw streams of text. Listing a directory returns a table of rows, and values can be piped through a series of commands called a pipeline. The project has reached a minimum-viable-product level of quality. It is available via package managers including brew and winget.
Open Android Backup is a shell script and Flutter app for locally backing up and restoring Android devices. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, uses 7-Zip archives, and encrypts and compresses backups by default. SMS messages and call logs cannot currently be restored, and app data is not saved due to Android restrictions.
Plan 9 from User Space, also called plan9port, is a port of many Plan 9 programs from their native Plan 9 environment to Unix-like operating systems. The supported systems listed are Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS and Dragonfly BSD. The source is available through git.
Plugins is an open source command-line or Unix tool for terminal workflows and system use.
PowerShell is a cross-platform automation and configuration tool and framework for Windows, Linux and macOS. It includes a command-line shell, a scripting language and a framework for processing cmdlets, and is optimized for structured data, REST APIs and object models. The repository covers PowerShell 7.x and higher; changes are not ported back to Windows PowerShell 5.1.
Quickshell is a toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens and other desktop components using QtQuick, usable alongside a Wayland compositor or window manager. It is configured in QML, loads changes as they are saved, and ships integrations including networking, notifications, system tray and Pipewire modules.
shellgpt is an open source command-line or Unix tool for terminal workflows and system use.
shellgpt is a software project that is part of the jiacai2050/my-works monorepo of public softwares hosted on GitHub. The monorepo is publicly accessible and open to contributions from GitHub users.
st is a simple terminal implementation for X from suckless.org. Its page lists implemented features including most VT10X escape sequences, UTF-8 wide-character support, resize, 256 colors and true colors, and clipboard handling. Configuration is done through config.h, with defaults stored in config.def.h.
SpotX-Bash is an open source command-line or Unix tool for terminal workflows and system use.
An A-Z index of the Linux command line, covering bash and related utilities. The page alphabetically lists commands with short descriptions, such as alias for creating aliases, apt for installing software packages, and chmod for changing access permissions.
StartIsBack is a shell enhancement that returns a start menu and start button to Windows 8 and Windows 10, behaving as in Windows 7. It also offers taskbar skinning, jump list replacement, centered taskbar icons and Start menu customization. Versions exist for Windows 8, 8.1 and 10, with StartAllBack for Windows 11. A trial is available and a license key costs $4.99.