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Excellent Utilities: AES Crypt – file encryption tool

November 9, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Security, Software

AES Crypt is file encryption software that uses the industry standard Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to easily and securely encrypt files.

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Intel NUC 13 Pro running Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop

Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Configuring Ubuntu 23.10

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This article explores configuring Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 on the Intel NUC 13 Pro.

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Essential System Tools: QJournalctl – Graphical User Interface for systemd’s journalctl

February 13, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

This is the latest 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.

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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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Essential System Tools: f3 – detect and fix counterfeit flash storage

February 8, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

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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UrBackup – client/server backup system

March 26, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

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

March 20, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System 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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fooyin

fooyin – customisable music player

February 4, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Fooyin is billed as a customisable music player. It’s based on Qt 6.6.1, written in C++ and published under an open source license.

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File Managers

Spacedrive – file manager powered by a virtual distributed filesystem

December 3, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews

Spacedrive is a file manager which seeks a different approach. It implements a VDFS (virtual distributed filesystem), a filesystem that works across multiple storage layers.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: Timeshift – Reliable system restore tool for Linux

December 10, 2018 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

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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