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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Category: System Software
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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Essential System Tools: Czkawka – data cleaner
Czkawka is a free and open source multi functional program to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images, and more.
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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.
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Best Free Android Apps: CPU-Z – system profiling and monitoring
CPU-Z is a system profiling and monitoring application that detects the central processing unit, RAM, and more.
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Endlessh – SSH tarpit
Endlessh is free and open source software that offers an additional way of protecting an SSH server.
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Excellent System Utilities: Fail2ban – ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors
Fail2ban is a daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors. Fail2ban is free and open source software.
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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2020
We’ve run through our statistics, and found our ten most well received posts/series.
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Excellent System Utilities: Ventoy – create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
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Excellent System Utilities: CPU-X – system profiler tool
CPU-X is a similar tool to the Windows utility CPU-Z. Unlike CPU-Z, CPU-X is free and open source Linux software. Here’s our review.
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dupeGuru – find duplicate files
dupeGuru finds duplicate files in a given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. Here’s our review of this open source program.
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Excellent System Utilities: Glances – CLI curses-based monitoring tool
Glances is a system administration tool that replaces a whole host of command-line utilities. Here’s our review of Glances.
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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2019
We’ve run through our statistics, and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2019.
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Essential System Tools: TLP – power management package
If you use Linux on a notebook, TLP is for you. It saves laptop battery power with a wide variety of features. There’s processor frequency scaling, Wifi power saving, hard disk advanced power management, GPU power management and much more.
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Essential System Tools: hyperfine – command-line benchmarking tool
hyperfine is a command-line benchmarking tool. It’s designed to measure the full execution time of a program. This open source tool is written in Rust.
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Excellent Utilities: lnav – the log file navigator
This is the second in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities including tools that boost your productivity, help you manage your workflow, and lots more besides. For this article, we’ll put lnav under the spotlight.
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Essential System Tools: Unison – Excellent Console and Graphical File Synchronization Software
Unison is a file-synchronization tool that allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
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