Calamares is an installer framework. By design it is very customizable, in order to satisfy a wide variety of needs and use cases.
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Category: System Software
Alternatives to popular CLI tools: fdisk
This article spotlights alternative tools to fdisk, a utility that lets you manipulate the disk partition table.
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JFS – Journaled File System
The Journaled File System (JFS) is a journaling file system that was open-sourced by IBM in 1999.
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FIR – cybersecurity incident management platform
FIR (Fast Incident Response) is an cybersecurity incident management platform designed with agility and speed in mind.
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Velociraptor – endpoint visibility and collection tool
Velociraptor is an advanced digital forensic and incident response tool that enhances your visibility into your endpoints.
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Flatseal – graphical utility to review and modify permissions from Flatpak applications
Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications.
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Warehouse – useful Flatpak tool
Warehouse is a versatile toolbox for managing flatpak user data, viewing flatpak app info, and batch managing installed flatpaks.
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Essential System Tools: HyFetch – neofetch with LGBTQ+ pride flags
HyFetch is a fork of neofetch that displays distro ASCII art in LGBTQ+ pride colours. It’s written in Python.
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rdiff-backup – reverse differential backup tool
rdiff-backup is a command-line reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally. This is free and open source software written in Python.
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luckyBackup – backup & sync tool
luckyBackup is an application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync. It’s free and open source software.
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syncBackup – backup and mirror your drives
syncBackup is software which lets you backup and mirror your drives. It’s a front-end for the hugely popular rsync utility.
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KBackup – back up your data in a simple, user friendly way
KBackup is an application which lets you back up your data in a simple, user friendly way. The program is designed to be used by non-computer experts.
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One-Click-Backup – Qt-based simple backup software
One-Click-Backup is a simple program to backup folders to an external location.
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Kup – backup scheduler for the Plasma desktop
Kup is created for helping people to keep up-to-date backups of their personal files. Kup is free and open source software.
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Kopia – backup/restore tool
Kopia is a fast and secure backup/restore tool creating encrypted snapshots of your data and saving the snapshots to remote or cloud storage
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Hyper-V
Hyper-V is a Type 1 hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Configuration Management Software
Configuration management software are the tools of choice for many system administrators and devops professionals. Here’s our verdict.
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Rex – friendly automation framework
Rex (Remote execution) is billed as the friendly automation framework written in Perl.
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FreeFileSync – folder comparison and synchronization software
FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization application that creates and manages backup copies of files.
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ObStack – fully dynamically configure data object types
ObStack is a tool allowing a user to fully dynamically configure data object types, and manage the objects and data as suited.
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