Tux Machines

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Console

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jan 25, 2023

Console is proprietary software and it’s not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

For many years system and kernel logs were handled by a utility called syslogd. Most Linux-based operating systems have since moved to systemd, which has a journal. That’s a giant log file for the whole system.

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