Terminator
– Connect to multiple machines
– Run same commands on multiple machines SIMULTANEOUSLY!
– Useful for synchronized & manually triggered installs and backups
HTOP
– Better than Top. No kidding.
– F4 (filter) > type APPNAME > select an item > F9 (Kill)
IFTop
– Shows real-time incoming/outgoing traffic
– Keys-combo: SRD > display port info
Socket Statistics (ss)
– command: ss -t -u (shows TCP/UDP connections)
Speedometer
– Quickly view network I/O on the host
LSHW (lshw-gtk)
– Shows systems hardware information
Sysinfo
– Another GUI system hardware management utility
Hardware Info (hardinfo)
– A alternative version of system info
System Profiler Benchmark
– Similar to Sysinfo with more drill-downs and benchmark functions
– Also display network info
Disks (gnome-disk-utility)
– GUI version to manage hard drives, except partitioning
– Create ISO
– Details about disk health
– Benchmark drives
BleachBit
– System cleaner: browser, apt cache
– Backup files
Grsync
– Rsync will transport files over the network with traffic encryption
– GUI version of Rsync with some feature enhancements
– Synchronize between different machines/directories
– Reminder: (a) /home/user/ (inside the ‘user’ directory) is not the same as (b) /home/user (include ‘user’ directory). Source should be following format (b), and destination should be following format (a). Kaprish?