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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Category: System Software
5 Best Free Linux Simple Backup Software
For Linux we recommend that home users install software that hides the complexity of doing backups. To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 best Linux simple backup software. Hopefully, there will be something here of interest to anyone who wants to take the effort out of ensuring the safety of their data.
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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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Essential System Tools: VeraCrypt – Strong disk encryption software
VeraCrypt is a free open source cross-platform disk encryption software that builds on the discontinued TrueCrypt.
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Essential System Tools: Firejail – Excellent Security Sandboxing
This article looks at Firejail, a SUID sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces, Linux capabilities and seccomp-bpf.
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Qt File Managers Roundup: Excellent Ways to Manage your Filesystem
It makes sense to use Qt based software with KDE. Benefits include memory savings, and better integration with the KDE desktop. However, if you prefer other desktop environments, these Qt file managers still work admirably. We review 15 Qt file managers.
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