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Third part in this series of posts where I show you some really interesting open source projects I’ve found that deserve a look.

If you develop or contribute to a project and you want to see it in the next post of the series, feel free to contact me on social media or email.

Note: some of these projects might be on a Beta/development state, and may crash or work unexpectedly.

IPTVnator

IPTV player application. Basic but easy to use. Available as an AppImage, Snap or in AUR (Arch Linux).

IPTVnator

Glide

A simple and minimalistic video player compatible with the most popular formats, based on GStreamer.

Glide

Butterfly

A note-taking app, specially designed for hand-writing. You can export your notes as PDF or image, among other formats. Download Butterfly on Linux (as an AppImage, Flatpak package, DEB or as a portable binary), Windows, Android or macOS.

Butterfly

sysstat

A set of performance monitoring tools, for the command-line. Includes several tools to monitor (I/O, CPU, memory, etc.) collect and report system activity information. Available on the official repositories of most Linux-based operating systems (Fedora/CentOS, Ubuntu/Debian,…). These are some of the available tools (check the GitHub page and each tool manpage for more info):

  • iostat reports CPU statistics and input/output statistics for block devices and partitions.
  • mpstat reports individual or combined processor related statistics.
  • pidstat reports statistics for Linux tasks (processes) : I/O, CPU, memory, etc.
  • sar collects, reports and saves system activity information
$ mpstat
Linux 6.0.7-arch1-1 (myarch)    07/11/22        _x86_64_        (4 CPU)

19:14:16     CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest  %gnice   %idle
19:14:16     all    9.05    0.03    2.73    1.94    0.54    0.28    0.00    0.00    0.00   85.42
$ pidstat -p 3721
Linux 6.0.7-arch1-1 (myarch)    07/11/22        _x86_64_        (4 CPU)

19:17:34      UID       PID    %usr %system  %guest   %wait    %CPU   CPU  Command
19:17:34     1000      3721    0.04    0.01    0.00    0.01    0.05     3  kate

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