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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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Encrypted Files

5 Best Free and Open Source Encrypted FUSE-Based File Systems

June 6, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Here’s our verdict on the popular encrypted FUSE-based file systems.

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KBackup – back up your data in a simple, user friendly way

May 29, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

KBackup is an application which lets you back up your data in a simple, user friendly way. The program is designed to be used by non-computer experts.

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Backup software

One-Click-Backup – Qt-based simple backup software

May 27, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

One-Click-Backup is a simple program to backup folders to an external location.

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Security

5 Best Free and Open Source Linux MAC/RBAC Tools

May 24, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

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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Backup

Kup – backup scheduler for the Plasma desktop

May 22, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Kup is created for helping people to keep up-to-date backups of their personal files. Kup is free and open source software.

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Backup

Kopia – backup/restore tool

May 20, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Kopia is a fast and secure backup/restore tool creating encrypted snapshots of your data and saving the snapshots to remote or cloud storage

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Hyper-V

May 14, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Hyper-V is a Type 1 hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Configuration Management

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Configuration Management Software

May 14, 2024 Steve Emms Programming, Software, System Software

Configuration management software are the tools of choice for many system administrators and devops professionals. Here’s our verdict.

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Configuration Management

Rex – friendly automation framework

May 10, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Rex (Remote execution) is billed as the friendly automation framework written in Perl.

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Backup software

FreeFileSync – folder comparison and synchronization software

May 9, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization application that creates and manages backup copies of files.

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Configuration Management

7 Best Free and Open Source Configuration Management Databases

May 7, 2024 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

We recommend the best configuration management databases.

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Inventory Management

ObStack – fully dynamically configure data object types

May 5, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

ObStack is a tool allowing a user to fully dynamically configure data object types, and manage the objects and data as suited.

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System Administration

Linux Assistant – tool to help you master Linux system administration

April 26, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software, Utilities

Linux Assistant is a helper tool that aims to guide you through your daily Linux usage. It performs a variety of system tasks.

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Backup

Foxclone – image backup, restore and clone tool

April 25, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Foxclone is a Linux based image backup, restore and clone tool using a simple point and click interface.

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SSD

FSArchiver – disk cloning utility

April 24, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

FSArchiver is a system tool that allows you to save the contents of a filesystem to a compressed archive file.

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Backup software

Grsync – graphical user interface for rsync

April 18, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Grsync is a graphical frontend for rsync. This GTK tool is designed to provide the most commonly used rsync options.

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