Internet and networking software has always been one of Linux's strongest areas.
Bluetooth Tools - The Bluetooth wireless technology is a standard for a small-form factor, low-cost radio solution that provides links between mobile computers, mobile phones, other portable handheld devices, and connectivity to the Internet.
DNS Servers - Domain Name System (DNS) is the internet’s directory service: It takes a human readable name and converts it to a machine readable “IP” address.
Google Drive Clients - We explore clients for Google Drive, a file storage and synchronization service. Store files in the cloud, share files, and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with collaborators.
HTTP clients (Command-line) - Besides downloading files, these clients can be used for testing, debugging and interacting with HTTP servers and web applications.
Instant Messaging Clients - Real-time text communication between two or more individuals over a network such as the internet. There are so many different instant messaging clients available.
Intrusion Prevention for SSH - Cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network.
IRC: Graphical IRC Clients, Console Based IRC Clients and IRC Servers - IRC is a type of real-time Internet text messaging. IRC is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but it also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfers.
LDAP Solutions - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an application protocol for accessing directory services. This protocol is specifically targeted at management applications and browser applications that provide read/write interactive access to directories.
Load Balancers - Load balancing is defined as the methodical and efficient distribution of network or application traffic across multiple servers in a server farm. Each load balancer sits between client devices and backend servers, receiving and then distributing incoming requests to any available server capable of fulfilling them.
MAC/RBAC Tools - These controls include authentication, authorisation and audit. Mandatory Access Control (MAC) / Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
Mailing List Managers - Mailing list software enables users to manage electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists. There is a good range of mature open source mailing list software available for the Linux platform.
Mastodon: Graphical Clients, Text-Based Clients - Mastodon is a free and open source microblogging platform similar to Twitter, but with user privacy and decentralization in mind. We explore the finest Mastodon clients.
Matrix Clients - Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication over IP. We pick the best clients.
Network Authentication Servers - Connection authentication, authorization, and accounting management. There are a few mature, highly proficient, and feature-laden servers.
Network Inventory Management - Collate all network infrastructure data and keep it up to date with these great network inventory management tools.
Network 'top' Tools (Console) - We explore small network tools that derive inspiration from the 'top' troubleshooting tool.
Port Scanners: Graphical Port Scanners and Terminal-Based Port Scanners - A port scanner is a utility which probes a server or host to verify if the virtual ports of a system are open or closed. Ports allow different applications on the same computer to share network resources simultaneously.
Remote Display Software - Use the mouse and keyboard to control another computer remotely. These tools offer significant benefits to employees and employers alike.
Social Networking - Create your own Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. The open source community plays an important role in the social networking space.
SSH Frontends - SSH or Secure Shell is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network.
System Monitoring Tools - Real-time incident notification, performance analysis, system health verification, and more with these great system monitoring tools.
Tox Clients - Tox is a peer-to-peer instant-messaging and video-calling protocol that offers end-to-end encryption. We pick the finest clients that use this protocol.
UPnP Servers - Share your music, photos and videos with your network. UPnP is an acronym for Universal Plug and Play, a collection of networking protocols.
Usenet Tools - Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. We highlight Usenet newsreaders suited for discussions and downloading files.
Voice Over IP Software - Telephone-like voice conversations across IP based networks. SIP is the most popular VoIP protocol.
Web Browsers: Graphical - Lightweight Graphical - Console - The quintessential desktop application that retrieves and presents information from the web. These are full-blown graphical web browsers.
Big Data is an all-inclusive term that refers to data sets so large and complex that they need to be processed by specially designed hardware and software tools.
Data Analysis Tools - Examine huge quantities of unstructured data to find patterns, correlations, and more with these distributed systems.
File Systems - We examine storage solutions which are designed to scale out on multiple servers. They support high performance data and offer consistent access to a common set of data from multiple servers.
Key Value Stores - Key value stores refers to a general concept of database where entities (values) are indexed using a unique key. They allow the application to store its data in a schema-less way. Data can be stored in a datatype of a programming language or an object.
Native XML Databases - Store data and documents without requiring a database schema. An XML database allows data to be stored in the Extensible Markup Language (XML) format.
Search Engines - Full-featured search engines through an application programming interface which are designed for performing information retrieval functions on Big Data.
Cloud Computing & Virtualization
Run programs simultaneously on many connected computers.
Cloud Development Tools - Developers need a broad set of powerful tools to use the cloud.. We feature four tools that warrant further investigation.
Functions-as-a-Service - Often known as serverless this is a category of cloud computing services that abstracts server management and low-level infrastructure decisions away from developers.
Infrastructure as a Service - Virtualised hardware, in other words, computing infrastructure. It's a service model where an organization outsources the equipment used to support storage, hardware, servers and networking components.
OS-level Virtualization (Containers) - An operating-system-level virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux systems on a control host using a single Linux kernel.
Platform as a Service - Develop new applications or services in the cloud. PaaS solution stacks offers a number of advantages.
Type 1 Hypervisors - Native / bare-metal running directly on the host's hardware. The hypervisor performs the function of controlling the host processor and resources, determining their allocation to the guest operating systems.
