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Goofys – Amazon S3 backend filey-system interface

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Goofys allows you to mount an S3 bucket as a filey system.

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Intrusion Prevention - SSH

6 Best Free and Open Source Tools for SSH Intrusion Prevention

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

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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Selection of utilities

Lemurs – TUI display/login manager

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

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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Data Tools

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Data Recovery Tools

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

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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System administration

RevLix – data recovery tool

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

RevLix is a data recovery tool developed to recover deleted files on Linux systems. This program uses the PhotoRec infrastructure.

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Load Balancing

12 Best Free and Open Source Load Balancers

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

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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Hard drive utility

disktui – TUI for disk management and partitioning

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

disktui is a TUI for disk management and partitioning written in Rust.

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Backup

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Simple Backup Software

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

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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CPU

bestfetch – system fetch

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

bestfetch is billed as a customizable, beautiful, and blazing fast system fetch.

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CPU

catnap – customizable systemfetch

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Catnap (originally known as Catnip) is a playful, simple system-information concatenation tool using Nim.

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Selection of utilities

histui – GTK4 notification daemon

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

histui is a highly themeable GTK4 notification daemon for Wayland with persistent history.

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Cloud

6 Best Free and Open Source Google Drive Clients

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

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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Circuit board

Footfetch – system profiling tool

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Footfetch is a CLI utility for viewing system information, but with a twist

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Software

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Caching Systems

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, System Software

Caches are employed in a variety of different ways. Here’s our recommended free and open source caching systems.

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Circuit board

Katifetch – system information tool

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Katifetch is a cross-platform system information tool (fetch) that displays system details alongside ASCII art.

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Backup software

GoBackup – backup your databases

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

GoBackup is a backup tool design for application servers, to backup your databases, files to cloud storage.

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powerstat – measures the power consumption of a laptop

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Powerstat measures the power consumption of a laptop using the ACPI battery information.

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PaaS

10 Best Free and Open Source PaaS Cloud Computing Stacks

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Along with Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), PaaS is a service model of cloud computing.

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Circuit board

PeekFetch – interactive system information

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

PeekFetch is an interactive system information TUI built with Go and Bubble Tea.

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Backup software

OtoClone – automatic backup and sync utility

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

OtoClone is an automatic backup and sync utility that watches directories.

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