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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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Cloudmin – manage virtual systems running virtualization technology

August 18, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Cloudmin provides a web interface for management of multiple systems, typically virtual systems running under some virtualization technology.

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

Incus – modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager

August 15, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Incus is a modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager.

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ion – modern system shell

August 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ion is a modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax.

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chokidar – watch file system changes

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

chokidar is a cross-platform command line utility to watch file system changes.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple System Information

June 29, 2024 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple System information provides a system report containing detailed information about a Mac. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Pants – scalable build system

May 9, 2024 Steve Emms Programming

Pants is a fast, scalable, user-friendly build and developer workflow system for codebases of all sizes

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Snipe-IT – asset management system

May 4, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Snipe-IT is an asset management system written in PHP.

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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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Typesetting Tools

typst – markup-based typesetting system for the sciences

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Typst is a markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use.

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Typesetting Tools

SILE – typesetting system

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

SILE is a typesetting system. Its job is to produce beautiful printed documents.

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Typesetting Tools

Lout – document formatting system

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Lout is a document formatting system. The system reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX.

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Typesetting Tools

groff – typesetting system that reads plain text input files

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

groff (GNU roff) is a typesetting system that reads plain text input files that include formatting commands.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: uptime

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to uptime, a utility which tells you how long the system has been running.

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Documentation

tuptime – report historical and statistical real time of the system

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tuptime is a utility that reports historical and statistical real time of the system, keeping it between restarts.

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Documentation

downtimed – system downtime monitoring and reporting tool

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

downtimed is a program for monitoring operating system downtime, uptime, shutdowns and crashes and for keeping record of such events.

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Documentation

lastwake – wake/suspend time system journal analyzer

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lastwake parses the systemd journal to find out: time of last cold boot, and start/end times of each sleep/resume cycle and their duration.

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Application Launchers

Go AppImage – implementation of AppImage tools

March 21, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Go AppImage is an implementation of AppImage tools written in Go by the inventor of the AppImage format.

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Document Management Systems

Docspell – Document Management System

March 20, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Docspell is a personal document organizer targeted for home use, i.e. families, households and also for smaller groups/companies.

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Log Analyzers

Loki – horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system

December 2, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.

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