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Apache OpenWhisk – event-driven serverless computing platform

August 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Apache OpenWhisk runs event-driven functions with actions, triggers, rules and workflows, supporting Linux development and Kubernetes.

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Internet Forum Software

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Groups

August 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Software

Google Groups is a service that provides discussion groups for people sharing common interests. We recommend the best self-hosted alternatives.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ftp

August 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternative tools to ftp, a network protocol used for transferring files from one computer system to another.

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Chat

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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Chat

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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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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Search

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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OpenPGP – standard for encryption and digital signatures

August 19, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Security

OpenPGP defines interoperable formats for encrypted messages, digital signatures and public-key management, currently specified by RFC 9580.

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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 authentication server

August 9, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

GLAuth is a lightweight LDAP authentication server with configurable backends, account management, proxying and two-factor authentication.

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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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FTP

SFTPGo – file transfer server with SFTP, FTP and WebDAV

August 8, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

SFTPGo is a multi-protocol file server supporting WebDAV, SFTP and FTP, with cloud backends, access controls and event automation.

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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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nom – RSS reader for the terminal

July 4, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

nom is a basic RSS reader for the terminal written in the Go programming language. It’s free and open source software.

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Elfeed – extensible web feed reader for Emacs, supporting both Atom and RSS

July 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Elfeed is an Emacs Web Feed Reader whose design inspired by notmuch, an email client. It’s written in Emacs Lisp.

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