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Category: System Software

Log Analyzers

QLogExplorer – tool for exploring log files

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

QLogExplorer is billed as an advanced tool for exploring log files.

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Log Analyzers

Chipmunk – logfile viewer and analyzer

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Chipmunk is a fast logfile viewer that can deal with huge logfiles (>10 GB).

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Circuit board

ArTTY – art for your TTY

September 30, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

ArTTY is billed as “Art for your TTY”.

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System

Anaconda – system installer for Fedora, RHEL and other distributions

September 29, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Anaconda is the installation program used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and some other distributions.

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Calamares – installer framework

September 28, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Calamares is an installer framework. By design it is very customizable, in order to satisfy a wide variety of needs and use cases.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: fdisk

September 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to fdisk, a utility that lets you manipulate the disk partition table.

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Archive Manager

JFS – Journaled File System

August 28, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

The Journaled File System (JFS) is a journaling file system that was open-sourced by IBM in 1999.

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8 Best Free and Open Source Incident Response Tools

August 27, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Roundup, System Software

Incident response tools enable you to respond to critical issues before they impact your business. We recommend open source solutions.

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Incident Response

FIR – cybersecurity incident management platform

August 27, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

FIR (Fast Incident Response) is an cybersecurity incident management platform designed with agility and speed in mind.

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Incident Response

Velociraptor – endpoint visibility and collection tool

August 26, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Velociraptor is an advanced digital forensic and incident response tool that enhances your visibility into your endpoints.

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Performance

Top 13 Web Server Performance Testing Tools

July 17, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

Web server benchmarking is a way of determining the performance of a web server. Here’s our recommended open source solutions.

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Find Duplicates

9 Best Free and Open Source Tools to Search the Filesystem

July 12, 2024 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

Desktop search is a software application which searches the contents of computer files, rather than searching the internet.

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System Administration

Flatseal – graphical utility to review and modify permissions from Flatpak applications

July 11, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications.

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System Administration

Warehouse – useful Flatpak tool

July 8, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Warehouse is a versatile toolbox for managing flatpak user data, viewing flatpak app info, and batch managing installed flatpaks.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: HyFetch – neofetch with LGBTQ+ pride flags

June 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software, Utilities

HyFetch is a fork of neofetch that displays distro ASCII art in LGBTQ+ pride colours. It’s written in Python.

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Backup software

rdiff-backup – reverse differential backup tool

June 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

rdiff-backup is a command-line reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally. This is free and open source software written in Python.

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Music

7 Best Free and Open Source UPnP Media Servers

June 18, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup, System Software

A music streamer lets you share your music, photos and videos with your network. Here’s the best free and open source music streamers.

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Backup software

luckyBackup – backup & sync tool

June 17, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

luckyBackup is an application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync. It’s free and open source software.

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Backup software

syncBackup – backup and mirror your drives

June 12, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

syncBackup is software which lets you backup and mirror your drives. It’s a front-end for the hugely popular rsync utility.

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Security

5 Best Open Source Firewall Distributions

June 11, 2024 Steve Emms Distro, Roundup, Security, System Software

Security is paramount. Security involves defense in depth. Approaching security one step at a time, with consistency and rigour, you can mitigate threats.

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