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Comical – comic book reader

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Other

Comical is a portable CBR and CBZ comic book viewer written in C++ using wxWidgets. It supports multiple image formats.

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QComicBook – viewer for comic book archives

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Other

QComicBook is an open source viewer for comic book archives containing jpeg/png/xpm/gif/bmp images, which aims at convenience and simplicity.

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Comic Books

MComix – GTK+ comic book viewer

October 26, 2023 Luke Baker Other

MComix is a user-friendly, customizable image viewer.It’s specifically designed to handle comic books (both Western comics and manga) and supports a variety of container formats.

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YACReader – read, browse and manage your comic collection

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Other

YACReader is a free cross-platform comic reader with support for multiple comic files and image formats.The software is written in C++.

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MySQL Workbench – unified visual tool for database architects, developers, and DBAs

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

MySQL Workbench is a complete visual database design tool that integrates SQL development, administration, database design.

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OmniDB – Open Source Collaborative Environment For Database Management

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

OmniDB is an open source browser-based app designed to access and manage many different Database Management systems including MySQL.

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Xpad – sticky note application for jotting down things to remember

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Xpad is a sticky note application for jotting down things to remember. Xpad needs a GTK 3 icon theme. It’s free and open source software.

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SafeKeep – centralized and easy to use backup program

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

SafeKeep is a centralized and easy to use backup application that combines the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup.

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Backup

PING – PING Is Not Ghost

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

PING (PING Is Not Ghost) is a free, open source distribution that offers similar functionality to Symantec Ghost. It backs up and restores a hard disk.

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Backup

BURP – network backup and restore program

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

BURP (BackUp and Restore Program) is an open source network backup and restore program. It uses librsync to save network traffic.

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Backup

XtraBackup – backup utility for MySQL

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Percona XtraBackup is an open-source backup utility for MySQL-based servers that performs non-blocking backups.

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Backup

Partclone – save and restore used blocks on a partition

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Partclone is a free and open source program similar to the well-known backup utility “Partition Image” a.k.a partimage.

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FOG – network computer cloning and management software

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Fog is a free and open source computer imaging solution. FOG ties together many open-source applications and adds an attractive web interface.

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Backup

rsync – fast incremental file transfer

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It copies files either to or from a remote host, or locally.

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Backup

Bareos – Backup Archiving REcovery Open Sourced

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is a reliable, cross-network open source software for backup, archiving and recovery of data.

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Backup

Bacula – network backup solution

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Bacula is a set of computer programs for the backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.

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Backup

Amanda – backup solution

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the administrator to set up a single master backup server.

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Hard disk

Duplicity – encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using rsync algorithm

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Duplicity incrementally backs up files and directory by encrypting tar-format volumes with GnuPG and uploading them to a remote (or local) file server.

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Hard disk

restic – fast, efficient and secure backup software

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. The software allows saving multiple revisions of files and directories in an encrypted repository stored on different backends.

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Hard disk

Borg – deduplicating backup software

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Borg is a fork of Attic. It is a secure, free and open source deduplicating backup program designed for efficient data storage.

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