Time Machine is a built-in backup feature to back up your personal data automatically, including apps, music, photos, emails and documents. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Category: System Software
Best Free and Open Source Software – System Administration
Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering disk cloning, partition tools, configuration management, application servers, data recovery and more.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Activity Monitor
Activity Monitor displays a variety of resources in use on a system in real time. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Essential System Utilities: System Monitoring Center
System Monitoring Center is a multi-featured system monitor. It’s free and open source software written in the Python programming language.
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Essential System Utilities: bottom – graphical process/system monitor for the terminal
bottom is billed as a customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Console
Apple Console is a system utility which collects log messages that are generated from your computer and connected devices. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Essential System Utilities: WTF – terminal dashboard
WTF (also known as ‘wtfutil’) is billed as “the personal information dashboard for your terminal”.
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Backup with these DeDuplicating Encryption Tools
Making file backups is an essential activity for all users, yet many users do not take adequate steps to protect their data.
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34 Best Free Linux Backup Software (Updated 2023)
Backup software is used to perform a complete back up of a file, data, database, system or server. Here’s the best open source backup software.
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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2022
We’ve trawled through our statistics and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2022.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Disk Utility
Apple Disk Utility is a system utility for performing disk and disk volume-related tasks on macOS. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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40 Excellent Ways to Manage Your System – Essential System Tools
This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.
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Essential System Tools: kmon – manage Linux kernel modules
kmon is a text-based tool to help you manage the Linux kernel modules and to monitor the kernel activities.
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Essential System Tools: GreenWithEnvy – NVIDIA graphics card utility
GreenWithEnvy (GWE) is a system tool for NVIDIA graphics cards. This free and open source tool is written in Python.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Linux System Monitoring Tools
System monitoring can help identify problems before they escalate to emergency status.
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Essential System Tools: gWakeOnLAN – turn machines on through Wake On LAN
gWakeOnLAN is a small utility that lets you wake up machines using the Wake on LAN (WOL) feature. WOL lets you wake a computer from a low-power state.
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Essential System Tools: btop++ – resource monitor
btop++ is an alternative to top. It’s a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Boot Camp
Boot Camp lets users switch between macOS and Windows. What are the best free and open source alternatives?
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Atlassian Statuspage
Atlassian Statuspage brings companies and customers together during downtime with incident communication.
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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2021
We’ve run through our statistics, and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2021.
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