System Software Archives

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Maintain your System – Part 14

This article explains ways to keep your system running in tip-top condition.

A journaling file system is a special type of file system that maintains a tracking file, called a journal. Here’s our recommendations.

We recommend the best configuration management databases.

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 12 useful Linux logfile viewers.

Web server benchmarking is a way of determining the performance of a web server. Here’s our recommended open source solutions.

CPU-Z is a system profiling and monitoring application that detects the central processing unit, RAM, and more.

Here’s our verdict on the popular encrypted FUSE-based file systems.

This article recommends open source software that employ different techniques to make it harder for a server running SSH to be compromised.

Endlessh is free and open source software that offers an additional way of protecting an SSH server.

Making file backups is an essential activity for all users, yet many users do not take adequate steps to protect their data.