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Media Center

LibreELEC – Libre Embedded Linux Entertainment Center

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

LibreELEC is a lightweight ‘Just enough OS’ Linux distribution purpose-built for Kodi on current and popular media center hardware.

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Talend Open Studio – data integration based on Eclipse RCP

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Talend Open Studio is an Open Source project for data integration based on Eclipse RCP. It is an ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tool.

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Hard disk image

KDE Partition Manager – utility software

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

KDE Partition Manager is disk partitioning application for the KDE Platform. It can also back up file systems to files and restore backups.

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Hard disk image

Parted – partition manager software

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

GNU Parted is a free and open source program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy disk partitions.

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Archive Manager

tar – create tar archives

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tar is console based software for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar format. Free and open source software.

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Server

m23 – network deployment

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

m23 is a software distribution and management system. It can install hundreds of clients over an existing network infrastructure.

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Data Tools

ext4magic – recover deleted or overwritten files

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

ext4magic is a Linux admin tool.It can help to recover deleted or overwritten files on ext3 and ext4 filesystems.

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Scalpel – data carving tool

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Scalpel is a data carving and indexing application. Scalpel is not under active maintenance. This is free and open source software.

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Data Tools

Foremost – recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Foremost is a terminal-based program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures.

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Data Tools

Redo Rescue – backup and recovery solution

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Redo Rescue can backup and restore an entire system in minutes, with a simple point-and-click interface. Free and open source software.

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Data Tools

safecopy – data recovery tool

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a seekable, but problematic source.

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Data Tools

Knoppix – Live distribution

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Knoppix is a bootable CD with a collection of open source Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and much more.

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Data Tools

Rescuezilla – Easy Backup, Recovery & Bare Metal Restore

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Rescuezilla (formerly known as Redo Backup and Recovery) is so simple and user-friendly that anyone can use it.

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Data Tools

PhotoRec – file data recovery software

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

PhotoRec is a data recovery software tool designed to recover lost files from digital camera memory. It’s free and open source software.

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Data Tools

TestDisk – powerful free data recovery software

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

TestDisk is a powerful data recovery software. Designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again.

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Data Tools

Trinity Rescue Kit – live Linux distribution

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) is a live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines.

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Data Tools

Mondo Rescue – disaster recovery solution

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Mondo is a reliable, disaster recovery solution. It backs up a Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW, NFS or hard disk partition.

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Benchmarking

netperf – networking benchmark software

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure the performance of many different types of networking. It’s free and open source software.

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Benchmarking

Phoronix Test Suite – automated benchmarking

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

The Phoronix Test Suite is an open source comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform that provides an extensible framework.

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Benchmarking

fio – scriptable I/O tool for storage benchmarks and drive testing

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fio allows benchmarking specific disk IO workloads. It can issue its IO requests using one of many synchronous and asynchronous IO APIs.

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