OpenSnitch - is the small firewall utility for Linux, that intercepts any outgoing traffic, asking your permission to allow or deny it. The project is on alpha, but it looks promising.

#security #firewall #linux

https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

FreeType - is a popular font rendering engine. Since the 2.7 release it supports a new default mode for bytecode hinting - Subpixel hinting. So, if you work on Linux and you hate its font rendering (especially on high resolution monitors), I recommend you to install this engine to your computer.

Here are instructions (for Ubuntu), how to install the engine from PPA repositories:

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:no1wantdthisname/ppa
 sudo apt update
 sudo apt install libfreetype6 fontconfig-infinality

and restart your computer. You will notice the difference straight away

#linux #font #lifehack #advice

​​Authenticator (★ 73) is two-factor authentication code desktop generator for GNOME. Created with love using Python and Gtk.

Features:
● QR code scanner
● Beautiful UI
● Huge database of (290+) websites/applications

Please read also article at OMGUbuntu.

#linux #authentication

​​Uroboros - (★398) is a GNU/Linux monitoring tool focused on single processes.

While utilities like top, ps and htop provide great overall details, they often lack useful temporal representation for specific processes, such visual representation of the process data points can be used to profile, debug and generally monitor its good health. There are tools like psrecord that can record some of the activity of a process, but some graphical server is required for rendering, and it's neither complete nor realtime.

Uroboros aims to fill this gap by providing a single tool to record, replay and render in realtime process runtime information in the terminal, without affecting the process performances like more invasive ptrace based solutions would do.

See it in action.

#monitoring #linux #ps #process