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10 Top Free and Open Source Console Based IRC Clients

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. We recommend the finest console-based IRC clients.

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tiny – terminal IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

tiny is an IRC client for the console written in the Rust programming language. It’s published under the MIT license.

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catgirl – terminal IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

catgirl is a terminal IRC client. It requires ncurses and libtls, provided by either LibreTLS (for OpenSSL) or by LibreSSL.

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ircc – minimal curses IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ircc is a simple IRC client. It’s written in the C programming language and requires the ncurses library to compile.

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glirc – advanced console IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

glirc is built around a philosophy that the client maintains a model of the IRC connection state and provides various views of that model.

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6 Best Free and Open Source Type 1 Hypervisors

August 21, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Internet, Roundup, System Software

This article identifies the finest open source Type 1 hypervisors that are available to download.

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percol – interactive grep tool in your terminal

August 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

percol is an interactive grep tool in your terminal. This tool is written in the Python programming language and is open source software.

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8 Best Free and Open Source Search Engines for Big Data

August 20, 2023 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup

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.

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Manticore Search – easy-to-use fast database for search

August 20, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Manticore Search is an easy to use open source fast database for search. It bills itself as a good alternative for Elasticsearch.

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5 Best Free and Open Source Email Encryption Tools

August 19, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Sending encrypted messages is one method of ensuring electronic privacy. We feature the best free and open source email encryption tools.

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Encryption software

OpenPGP – email encryption

August 19, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Security

OpenPGP is the most widely used email encryption standard. It’s also used encrypted messaging and other use cases such as password managers.

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Web

Optimize Web Delivery with these Open Source Tools

August 17, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Web proxy software forwards HTTP requests without modifying traffic in any way. They can be configured as a transparent proxy with no client-side configuration required.

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Mail Notification

Mailutils – swiss army knife of electronic mail handling

August 12, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Mailutils is a swiss army knife of electronic mail handling. It offers a rich set of utilities and daemons for processing e-mail.

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Network

RazDC Community – Active Directory Domain Controller

August 9, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

RazDC Community is an Active Directory domain controller built on Rocky Linux and Samba4. RazDC Community includes a custom web interface.

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Network

GLAuth – lightweight LDAP server

August 9, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Go-lang LDAP Authentication (GLAuth) is a secure, easy-to-use, LDAP server with configurable backends.

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FTP

tnftpd – default NetBSD FTP server

August 8, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

tnftpd is a `port’ of The NetBSD FTP Daemon to other systems. tnftpd was formerly known as `lukemftpd’.

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SFTPGo – fully featured and highly configurable SFTP server

August 8, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

SFTPGo is a fully featured and highly configurable SFTP server with optional HTTP/S, FTP/S and WebDAV support.

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HTTP

hurl – run and test HTTP requests with plain text

August 2, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format.

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HTTP

xh – fast and friendly tool for sending HTTP requests

August 2, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

xh is a friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. It reimplements as much as possible of HTTPie’s excellent design.

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tuifeed – news feed reader with a fancy terminal user interface

July 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

tuifeed is a news feed reader with a fancy terminal user interface. It allows you read news from your favourite RSS and Atom sources,

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