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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 with these DeDuplicating Encryption Tools

January 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, Utilities

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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Backup

34 Best Free Linux Backup Software (Updated 2023)

January 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, Roundup, 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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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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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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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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