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openSeaChest – diagnostic and management tools for storage devices

September 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

openSeaChest provides cross-platform command-line utilities for storage diagnostics, firmware updates, secure erasure and drive settings.

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GPT fdisk – text-mode GPT partitioning utilities

August 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

GPT fdisk provides Linux command-line tools for editing GPT partition tables, converting MBR disks and repairing damaged partition data.

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Photo collection

Immich is a simple to use backup tool for self-hosted photos and videos

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, System Software

Immich is a self-hosted photo storage and sharing service. If you don’t want your photos firmly under someone else’s control, you might like Immich.

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Backup

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Time Machine

July 14, 2023 Steve Emms Software, System Software

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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System Administration

Best Free and Open Source Software – System Administration

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Software, System Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering disk cloning, partition tools, configuration management, application servers, data recovery and more.

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System Administration

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Activity Monitor

May 26, 2023 Steve Emms Software, System Software

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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System Administration

Essential System Utilities: System Monitoring Center

May 3, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

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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System Administration

Essential System Utilities: bottom – graphical process/system monitor for the terminal

April 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

bottom is billed as a customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal.

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Log Analyzers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Console

January 25, 2023 Steve Emms Software, System Software

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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System Administration

Essential System Utilities: WTF – terminal dashboard

January 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

WTF (also known as ‘wtfutil’) is billed as “the personal information dashboard for your terminal”.

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Backup

34 Best Free Linux Backup Software (Updated 2023)

January 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, System Software, Utilities

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

December 22, 2022 Steve Emms Software, System Software

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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Hard drive utility

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Disk Utility

November 4, 2022 Steve Emms Software, System Software, Utilities

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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System Administration

40 Excellent Ways to Manage Your System – Essential System Tools

October 28, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, Internet, Software, System Software, Utilities

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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System Administration

Essential System Tools: kmon – manage Linux kernel modules

October 26, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

kmon is a text-based tool to help you manage the Linux kernel modules and to monitor the kernel activities.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: GreenWithEnvy – NVIDIA graphics card utility

October 14, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

GreenWithEnvy (GWE) is a system tool for NVIDIA graphics cards. This free and open source tool is written in Python.

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Log Analyzers

14 Best Free and Open Source Linux System Monitoring Tools

July 19, 2022 Steve Emms System Software

System monitoring can help identify problems before they escalate to emergency status.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: gWakeOnLAN – turn machines on through Wake On LAN

July 4, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

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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System Administration

Essential System Tools: btop++ – resource monitor

June 3, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software, Utilities

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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Technology

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Boot Camp

March 26, 2022 Steve Emms Software, System Software

Boot Camp lets users switch between macOS and Windows. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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