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Essential System Tools: HyFetch – neofetch with LGBTQ+ pride flags

June 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software, Utilities

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

June 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

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

June 17, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

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

June 12, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

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

May 29, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

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

May 27, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System 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

May 22, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

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

May 20, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

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

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Hyper-V

May 14, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

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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Configuration Management

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Configuration Management Software

May 14, 2024 Steve Emms Programming, Software, System Software

Configuration management software are the tools of choice for many system administrators and devops professionals. Here’s our verdict.

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Configuration Management

Rex – friendly automation framework

May 10, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Rex (Remote execution) is billed as the friendly automation framework written in Perl.

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FreeFileSync – folder comparison and synchronization software

May 9, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, System Software

FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization application that creates and manages backup copies of files.

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Inventory Management

ObStack – fully dynamically configure data object types

May 5, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

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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System Administration

Linux Assistant – tool to help you master Linux system administration

April 26, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software, Utilities

Linux Assistant is a helper tool that aims to guide you through your daily Linux usage. It performs a variety of system tasks.

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Foxclone – image backup, restore and clone tool

April 25, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Foxclone is a Linux based image backup, restore and clone tool using a simple point and click interface.

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SSD

FSArchiver – disk cloning utility

April 24, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

FSArchiver is a system tool that allows you to save the contents of a filesystem to a compressed archive file.

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Grsync – graphical user interface for rsync

April 18, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Grsync is a graphical frontend for rsync. This GTK tool is designed to provide the most commonly used rsync options.

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fwbackups – simple backup software

April 16, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

fwbackups is a simple backup program that allows you to backup your data. It’s free and open source software.

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cronopete – graphical backup utility based on Apple Time Machine

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Cronopete is a backup utility for Linux, modeled after Apple’s Time Machine. It aims to simplify the creation of periodic backups.

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UrBackup – client/server backup system

March 26, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

UrBackup is an easy to setup open source client/server backup system offering a combination of image and file backups.

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