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Finnix – system administration live CD

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian.

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TestDisk – powerful free data recovery software

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

TestDisk is a powerful data recovery software. Designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again.

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SystemRescueCd – system rescue disk

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick. It can also be booted over the network using PXE.

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Trinity Rescue Kit – live Linux distribution

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) is a live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines.

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Mondo Rescue – disaster recovery solution

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Mondo is a reliable, disaster recovery solution. It backs up a Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW, NFS or hard disk partition.

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14 Best Free and Open Source Linux Benchmark Tools

October 7, 2023 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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7 Best Free and Open Source Web Servers

October 7, 2023 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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Bonnie++ – benchmark suite software

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms System Software, Utilities

Bonnie++ is an open source benchmark suite that is aimed at performing a number of simple tests of hard drive and file system performance.

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Book

5 Best Free and Open Source CardDAV Servers

September 21, 2023 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

CardDAV (“Card Distributed Authoring and Versioning”) is a standardized address book client/server protocol.

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Hard disk image

GSmartControl – hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool

September 20, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

GSmartControl is an open source graphical user interface for smartctl, which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART data.

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