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Mobile App Development

10 Best Free and Open Source Mobile Application Development Frameworks

March 21, 2024 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, System Software

Mobile application development is the process by which software is created for handheld devices. Here’s our recommendations.

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Backup

Déjà Dup – simple backup software

March 20, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Déjà Dup is a simple backup tool. The software hides the complexity of doing backups the ‘right way’ (encrypted, off-site, and regular).

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Backup software

Snap Backup – one-click backup utility

March 13, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Snap Backup is billed as the one-click backup utility that makes it simple to protect your important work.

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Back in Time – simple backup tool

March 3, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Back In Time is a simple backup tool taking inspiration from FlyBack and TimeVault, both in turn inspired by Apple’s Time Machine.

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Intrusion Prevention - SSH

5 Best Free and Open Source Tools for SSH Intrusion Prevention

February 23, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

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

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Backup software

Emborg – Front-End to BorgBackup

February 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

Emborg is a simple command line utility to orchestrate backups. It is a front-end to Borg, powerful and fast de-duplicating backup software.

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Load Balancing

12 Best Free and Open Source Load Balancers

February 11, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Load balancing is defined as the methodical and efficient distribution of network or application traffic across multiple servers. Here’s our verdict on the best ones for Linux.

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Backup software

borgmatic – Python-based wrapper for Borg Backup

January 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

borgmatic is simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations

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Hard disk

Vorta – desktop client for Borg Backup

January 22, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates Borg Backup with your favorite desktop environment.

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Backup software

Pika Backup – app focused on backups of personal data

January 15, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Pika Backup is designed to save your personal data and does not support complete system recovery. It’s free and open source software.

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Cloud

Pick of the Bunch: Cloud Development Tools

January 2, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Cloud computing is not simply a popular phrase; it is a very important part of how we use technology. We pick some great tools.

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Software

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Caching Systems

December 30, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, System Software

Caches are employed in a variety of different ways. Here’s our recommended free and open source caching systems.

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Hyper Backup

Synology Hyper Backup Tutorial

December 27, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews, System Software

Hyper Backup is software included with Synology’s DiskStation Manager, a Linux-based operating system that runs exclusively on their NAS devices.

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Cloud

6 Best Free and Open Source Google Drive Clients

December 23, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 high quality open source Google Drive clients.

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Log Analyzers

Fluentd – Unified Logging Layer

December 2, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and so on.

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Log Analyzers

SigNoz – monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems

December 2, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

SigNoz lets you monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications.

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Log Analyzers

Loki – horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system

December 2, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.

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Point of Sale

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Point-of-Sale Software

November 22, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

Linux has a good range of open source Point-of-Sale software which can help retailers make considerable cost savings, not simply due to the lack of licensing and upgrade fees.

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Log Analyzers

Scribe – aggregate log data

November 20, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Scribe is a server for aggregating log data streamed in real time from clients. It’s designed to scale to a very large number of nodes.

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Log Analyzers

Kibana – analytics and visualization platform

November 20, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Kibana is a browser based interface for logstash and ElasticSearch that allows you to efficiently search, visualize, analyze logs.

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