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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Kopia – backup/restore tool
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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100 Awesome and Must-Have TUI Linux Apps
This article selects 100 TUI apps that largely reflects software our volunteers use as their daily drivers.
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Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Configuring Ubuntu 23.10
This article explores configuring Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 on the Intel NUC 13 Pro.
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luckyBackup – backup & sync tool
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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UrBackup – client/server backup system
UrBackup is an easy to setup open source client/server backup system offering a combination of image and file backups.
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Déjà Dup – simple backup software
Déjà Dup is a simple backup tool. The software hides the complexity of doing backups the ‘right way’ (encrypted, off-site, and regular).
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Essential System Tools: Timeshift – Reliable system restore tool for Linux
This is the twelfth 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. For this article, we’ll look at Timeshift.
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Excellent System Utilities: Glances – CLI curses-based monitoring tool
Glances is a system administration tool that replaces a whole host of command-line utilities. Here’s our review of Glances.
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Essential System Tools: fdupes – find or delete duplicate files
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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