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System administration

Relax-and-Recover – Linux Disaster Recovery

September 5, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) is a setup-and-forget Linux bare metal disaster recovery solution.

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Bazaar – app store for GNOME

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Bazaar is a new app store for GNOME with a focus on discovering and installing applications and add-ons from Flatpak remotes, particularly Flathub. It emphasizes supporting the developers who make the Linux desktop possible. Bazaar features a “curated” tab that

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ntpd-rs – synchronizing your computer’s clock

September 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

ntpd-rs is a tool for synchronizing your computer’s clock, implementing the NTP and NTS protocols. It is written in Rust.

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Archive Manager

Bcachefs – advanced filesystem for Linux

September 1, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Bcachefs is an advanced filesystem for Linux, with an emphasis on reliability and robustness

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Log Analyzers

Gonzo – Go based TUI for log analysis

August 27, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

Gonzo is a powerful, real-time log analysis terminal UI inspired by k9s.

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Zoi – universal package manager and environment setup tool

August 27, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Zoi is a universal package manager and environment setup tool, designed to simplify package management and environment configuration.

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Monitor System

Updo – website monitoring tool

August 25, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Updo is a command-line tool for monitoring website uptime and performance. It provides real-time metrics on website status, response time…

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Inventory Management

13 Best Free and Open Source Network Inventory Management

August 23, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Network Inventory Management collates all network infrastructure data and keeps it up to date.

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Log Analyzers

12 Best Free and Open Source Log Analyzers

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

Making sense of logs helps organisations make better customer-focused decisions. We recommend the finest open source log analyzers.

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Start up

5 Useful Free and Open Source Graphical GRUB Config Tools

August 10, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

GRUB is a boot loader software used in Linux systems. We pick 5 useful GUI tools to edit the bootloader configuration.

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Security

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Digital Forensics Tools

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Security, System Software

Digital forensics is a specialist art. It allows investigations to be undertaken without modifying the media.

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Log Analyzers

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Logfile Viewers

August 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of useful Linux logfile viewers.

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Monitor System

TkmViewer – analyse TaskMonitor output

July 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

TkmViewer is a graphical user interface to visualize output SQLite3 data format from the TaskMonitor daemon.

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Web Design

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Web Servers

July 27, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

The main function of a web server is to display website content through storing, processing and delivering webpages to users. Here’s our verdict on the best free and open source web servers.

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Benchmarking

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Benchmark Tools

July 25, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

A benchmark is the act of running computer programs in order to assess the performance of computer hardware and software applications.

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System

µgRD – generate a custom initramfs environment

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

µgRD is designed to generate a custom initramfs environment to boot the system which built it.

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System network administration

10 Useful Free and Open Source Network Configuration Management Tools

July 21, 2025 Erik Karlsson Roundup, System Software

Network configuration management (NCM) is a process that every device on the network is subjected to throughout its life cycle.

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FTP

7 Best Free and Open Source Linux FTP Servers

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a time-honored method of transferring files to and from a remote network site.

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Mailing List Managers

12 Best Free and Open Source Mailing List Managers

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

We recommend the best FOSS mailing list tools.

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Selection of utilities

Sysdig – dig deeper

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Security, System Software

Sysdig is a universal system visibility tool with native support for containers.

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