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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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Magical Potions

MB-Lab – Blender addon that creates humanoid characters

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

MB-Lab is a character creation tool for Blender 2.80, based on ManuelBastioniLAB. Free and open source software. Written in Python.

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Music

Tomahawk – music player

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

The developers of Tomahawk bill their application as a music player that fundamentally changes the way music is consumed and shared.

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Music

Elisa – music player developed by the KDE community

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Elisa is a music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be simple and pleasant to use. Free and open source software.

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Music

GNOME Music – simple music player

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

GNOME Music aims to combine an elegant and immersive browsing experience with simple and straightforward controls.

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Music

gmusicbrowser – music jukebox for large collections

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

gmusicbrowser is a free and open-source jukebox for large collections of mp3/ogg/flac/mpc files. It is written in Perl.

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Music

Musique – different take on the music player

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Musique is a small but sophisticated graphical music player. Musique unclutters your music listening experience with a clean and innovative interface.

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Music

Lollypop – music playing software

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Lollypop is an open source music playing application implemented in Python/GTK+. It is designed for the GNOME desktop environment.

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Music

DeaDBeeF – ultimate music player

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is billed as the ultimate music player for Linux systems. It is a very basic and simple player with a small footprint.

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Shell prompt

zplug – plugin manager for zsh

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

zplug is billed as a next-generation plugin manager for Zsh. Zsh is an extended Bourne shell with many improvements, including some features of Bash, ksh, and tcsh.

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Podcast

neon-podcaster – listen to podcasts using RSS

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

neon-podcaster is a command line podcast client to listen to any podcast episode using RSS. This is free and open source software.

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Encryption

zuluCrypt – simple, feature rich and powerful solution for hard drive encryption

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

zuluCrypt is a simple, feature rich and powerful solution for hard drives encryption. This is free and open source software.

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Encryption

cryptsetup – disk encryption

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Cryptsetup offers a command-line interface to set up cryptographic volumes. This is achieved using the Linux kernel device mapper target dm-crypt.

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Encryption

dm-crypt – kernel device-mapper crypto target

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Security

dm-crypt is a transparent disk encryption subsystem in the kernel that provides a generic way to create virtual layers of block devices.

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Clipboard

Glipper – clipboard manager for GNOME

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Glipper is a clipboard utility for the GNOME panel. Glipper appears in the notification area. Glipper is free and open source software.

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Clipboard

Clipman – clipboard manager

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Clipman is a clipboard manager for Xfce. Clipman is free and open source software written in the C programming language.

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