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This is the fifth in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small 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. inxi is a Perl script that interrogates your system.
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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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UrBackup is an easy to setup open source client/server backup system offering a combination of image and file backups.
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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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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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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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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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Heroic Games Launcher (“Heroic”) is a free and open source games launcher for Epic Games and GOG. It’s a cross-platform tool.
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Quod Libet is a mature music player with music management functionality. It’s written in Python.
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Bamboo is a continuous integration and delivery tool that ties automated builds, tests, and releases in a single workflow. What are the best free and open source alternatives?
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