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Reference Managers

WIKINDX – online bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms Education

WIKINDX is a single or multi-user bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system.

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FTP

tnftp – FTP client Unix-like operating systems

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

tnftp (formerly lukemftp) is an FTP client for Unix-like operating systems. tnftp is based on the original BSD FTP client.

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Data Analysis

SciPy – Scientific Computing Tools for Python

October 16, 2023 Eilidih Parris Scientific

SciPy (pronounced “Sigh Pie”) is a Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.

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Configuration Management

Quattor – distribution of open source tools aimed at complete system management

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Quattor is a distribution of open source tools aimed at complete system management. Manage non-grid servers, desktops, virtual machines…

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Configuration Management

Bcfg2 – portable configuration management system

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Bcfg2 is a configuration management system. It helps system administrators deploy complex changes across large numbers of systems.

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Archive Manager

Xarchiver – front-end to various command line archiving tools

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Xarchiver is a program for handling archives on Linux and FreeBSD. Xarchiver is free and open source software.

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Server

FAI – install, customize and manage Linux systems and software

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) is a high quality tool for fully automatic installation of new Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Debian and more.

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Server

Foreman – life cycle systems management tool

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers.

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Web Content Management Systems

Camaleon CMS – advanced and dynamic content management system

October 10, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Camaleon CMS is a dynamic and advanced content management system based on Ruby on Rails.

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Web Content Management Systems

Alchemy – open source headless Content Management System engine written in Rails

October 10, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Alchemy is a Content Management System engine written on top of the Ruby on Rails web application framework.

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Web Content Management Systems

ComfortableMexicanSofa – powerful Ruby on Rails 5.2+ CMS (Content Management System) Engine

October 10, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

ComfortableMexicanSofa is a powerful Ruby on Rails 5.2+ CMS (Content Management System) Engine. Free and open source software.

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Web Content Management Systems

Spina CMS is an easy to use content management system

October 10, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Spina is a content management system (CMS) that focuses on ease of use. Spina is free and open source software.

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Data Tools

Finnix – system administration live CD

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian.

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Data Tools

SystemRescueCd – system rescue disk

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick. It can also be booted over the network using PXE.

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Benchmarking

HardInfo – small system administration tool

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

HardInfo is a small utility that displays information about your hardware and operating system. It’s a system profiler and benchmark.

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Benchmarking

IOzone – filesystem benchmark tool

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

IOzone is a free and open source filesystem benchmark tool that generates and measures a wide variety of file operations.

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Benchmarking

sysbench – scriptable database and system performance benchmark

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on LuaJIT. sysbench is free and open source software. It’s written in C.

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Network

SeaweedFS – fast distributed storage system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

SeaweedFS is a simple and highly scalable distributed file system to store billions of files, and to serve the files fast.

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Network

JuiceFS – distributed POSIX file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3. It’s free and open source software written in Go.

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Network

GlusterFS – software scalable network filesystem

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling thousands of clients.

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