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Essential System Tools: VeraCrypt – Strong disk encryption software

March 27, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System 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

March 13, 2019 John O'Donnell Reviews, Software, System Software

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

February 25, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

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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Essential System Tools: QDirStat – Excellent Qt-based directory statistics

February 20, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

QDirStat is an open source graphical application to show where your disk space has gone and to help you to clean up the mess. It fully merits its inclusion in our Essential System Tools feature.

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Essential System Tools: QJournalctl – Graphical User Interface for systemd’s journalctl

February 13, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

This is the latest in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities.

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Essential System Tools: f3 – detect and fix counterfeit flash storage

February 8, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

f3 is a set of 5 open source utilities that detect and repair counterfeit flash storage. It achieves this by testing the flash cards’ capacity and performance.

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Essential System Tools: nmon – Curses based Performance Monitor

January 23, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

nmon is short for Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux. It’s a very versatile tool that can be shaped to your exact requirements. It fully warrants its place in our Essential System Tools feature.

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Essential System Tools: Krusader – KDE file manager

January 16, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

Krusader is an advanced, twin-panel (commander-style) file manager designed for KDE Plasma. Krusader also runs on other popular Linux desktop environments such as GNOME.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: fdupes – find or delete duplicate files

January 4, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

fdupes finds duplicate files in the given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. The utility offers a lot of options to list, delete and replace files.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: Clonezilla – partition and disk cloning software

December 31, 2018 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

Clonezilla is a free and open source ncurses partition and disk imaging/cloning program. The software offers system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery.

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