Harden a computer system or network using access controls such as Mandatory Access Control (MAC) or Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
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Category: System Software
7 Best Free and Open Source Configuration Management Databases
We recommend the best configuration management databases.
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Anvil – streamline tool installation and team onboarding
Install the tools you need, sync your configs, and keep your environment consistent with a single command-line tool.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Web Application Firewalls
A web application firewall (WAF) is a type of application firewall that lets you see and analyze HTTP traffic to and from a web application. We recommend our favourite WAFs.
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jolt – terminal-based battery and energy monitor
jolt provides real-time insights into power consumption, process energy usage, and battery health—all in a clean, themeable TUI.
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dmitui – TUI version of dmidecode
dmitui is a TUI (Text User Interface) version that allows for easy navigation between sections, unlike dmidecode.
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Xfetch – system information tool
Xfetch is a cross-platform system information fetching tool inspired by fastfetch and neofetch, written in Rust.
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pfetch – system information tool
pfetch is a pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh.
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Goofys – Amazon S3 backend filey-system interface
Goofys allows you to mount an S3 bucket as a filey system.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Tools for SSH Intrusion Prevention
This article recommends open source software that employ different techniques to make it harder for a server running SSH to be compromised.
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Lemurs – TUI display/login manager
Lemurs is a Terminal User Interface (TUI) Display/Login Managers written in Rust that works on most Linux and BSD distributions.
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13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Data Recovery Tools
The software featured in this article are high quality standalone Linux tools which help you to recover data in a range of circumstances.
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RevLix – data recovery tool
RevLix is a data recovery tool developed to recover deleted files on Linux systems. This program uses the PhotoRec infrastructure.
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12 Best Free and Open Source Load Balancers
Load balancing is defined as the methodical and efficient distribution of network or application traffic across multiple servers. Here’s our verdict on the best ones for Linux.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Simple Backup Software
We recommend home users install software that hides the complexity of doing backups. Here’s our verdict on open source solutions.
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bestfetch – system fetch
bestfetch is billed as a customizable, beautiful, and blazing fast system fetch.
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catnap – customizable systemfetch
Catnap (originally known as Catnip) is a playful, simple system-information concatenation tool using Nim.
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histui – GTK4 notification daemon
histui is a highly themeable GTK4 notification daemon for Wayland with persistent history.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Google Drive Clients
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 high quality open source Google Drive clients.
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Footfetch – system profiling tool
Footfetch is a CLI utility for viewing system information, but with a twist
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