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15 Best Free and Open Source Status Page Systems

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

A status page system is software that lets you communicate incidents, schedule maintenances and downtimes with your customers.

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12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Server Provisioning Tools

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

Server provisioning is a set of actions to prepare a server, taking it from bare metal to a functioning system.

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11 Best Free and Open Source NVIDIA GPU Monitoring Tools

June 12, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

nvidia-smi is a basic monitoring and management tool for NVIDIA graphics card. We explore other useful NVIDIA GPU monitoring tools.

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CIB seven – workflow and process automation platform

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, System Software

CIB seven is a workflow and process automation platform built around a Java-based BPM engine.

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Best Free and Open Source IaaS Software

June 11, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a service model where an organization outsources the equipment used to support storage, hardware, servers and networking components.

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Apache HertzBeat – observability platform

June 10, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

HertzBeat is an observability platform that brings monitoring, log collection, alerting, notification delivery, and status page creation.

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Yet Another Status Page – self-hosted status page application

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Yet Another Status Page is a self-hosted status page application built with Next.js and Payload CMS.

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Checkmate – self-hosted infrastructure monitoring application

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Checkmate is a self-hosted infrastructure monitoring application that gives administrators a central web interface.

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doccano – data labelling and text annotation platform

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

doccano is a data labelling and text annotation platform for machine learning practitioners.

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Warewulf – stateless, network-boot cluster provisioning system

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Warewulf is a stateless, network-boot cluster provisioning system designed primarily for high-performance computing clusters.

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Gatus – developer-oriented status dashboard and health monitoring application

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Gatus is a developer-oriented status dashboard and health monitoring application for self-hosted services and infrastructure.

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Tinkerbell – bare metal provisioning engine

June 9, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Tinkerbell is a bare metal provisioning engine designed to automate the installation and configuration of physical machines.

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Ironic – OpenStack service for managing and provisioning bare metal servers

June 8, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

Ironic is an OpenStack service for managing and provisioning bare metal servers.

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OpenStatus – status page and uptime monitoring platform

June 8, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

OpenStatus is a status page and uptime monitoring platform that helps teams monitor websites, APIs, servers, and DNS endpoints

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MAAS (Metal as a Service) – data centre automation platform

June 8, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

MAAS (Metal as a Service) is a data centre automation platform for managing physical servers in a cloud-like way.

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8 Best Free and Open Source Console Based Network ‘top’ Tools

June 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, System Software

We recommend the best network ‘top’ tools.

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10 Best Free and Open Source Hard Disk Utilities for System Tweakers

June 7, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

We showcase the finest open source tools to diagnose the health of a hard disk and improve its performance.

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nwipe – secure disk eraser

June 7, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, Utilities

nwipe is a secure disk erasure utility for Linux and a fork of the dwipe command originally used by Darik’s Boot and Nuke.

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Flowable – workflow and business process management platform

June 6, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, System Software

Flowable is a workflow and business process management platform that combines BPMN process automation, CMMN case management, and more.

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5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Network Authentication Tools

June 6, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Security, System Software

Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) is a networking protocol that offers centralized connection authentication, authorization, and accounting management for various types of network access.

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