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KInfoCenter – provides information about the user’s system

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

KInfoCenter is a utility by KDE that provides information about the user’s system. KInfoCenter is free and open source software.

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dmidecode – reports information about your system’s hardware

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

dmidecode reports information about your system’s hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard.

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Video Editors

LiVES – VJ and Video Editing system

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

LiVES is a Video Editing System. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet has many advanced features.

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SQL

Percona Toolkit – collection of advanced open source command-line tools

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Percona Toolkit (formerly Maatkit) provides essential command-line utilities for MySQL. Work more safely and quickly by relying on tested software

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Backup

Cedar Backup – manage system backups for a pool of local and remote machines

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Cedar Backup is a free and open source software package designed to manage system backups for a pool of local and remote machines.

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Backup

rsnapshot – filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

rsnapshot is an rsync-based filesystem snapshot utility. It can take incremental backups of local and remote filesystems for any number of machines.

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System administration

BIND – flexible and full-featured DNS system

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is a complete, highly portable implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol.

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BackupPC – high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backup

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

BackupPC is a free backup software suite with a web-based frontend. It is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, Windows and Macs.

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Hard disk

bup – efficient backup system based on the git packfile format

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

bup is a free and open source program written in Python that backs things up. It’s short for “backup”.

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Znap – easy-to-use tools for Zsh

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Znap is a fast, lightweight set of tools to ease the use of Zsh plugins and Git repos and reduce your shell’s startup time.

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Encryption

Tomb – system for file encryption

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Tomb is a system for file encryption, facilitating the backup of secret files. It’s a simple tool to manage encrypted storage.

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Encryption

gocryptfs – encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Security

gocryptfs is an encrypted overlay filesystem. Encrypted files are stored in CIPHERDIR, and a plain-text view can be presented.

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Encryption

loop-AES – file system and swap encryption package

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Security

loop-AES is a fast and transparent file system and swap encryption package. loop-AES can be used to encrypt disk partitions, removable media, and more.

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Clipboard

GPaste – clipboard management system

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

GPaste is a clipboard management system. GPaste is free and open source software written in the C programming language.

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GPS

Navit – car navigation system with routing engine

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Navit is an open source car navigation system with routing engine. Its modular design is capable of using vector maps of various formats.

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Revision Control

Bazaar – version control system

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Bazaar is a decentralized version control system that’s easy to use and intuitive, able to adapt to many workflows, reliable, and extendable.

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EDA

gEDA – free suite and toolkit of Electronic Design Automation tools

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

The gEDA project is a comprehensive suite and toolkit of Electronic Design Automation tools.

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Food and Drink Software

CookCLI – suite of tools to create shopping lists and maintain recipes

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The Cook CLI command line program provides a suite of tools to create shopping lists and maintain recipes.

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Screenwriting

Afterwriting – post-processing tools for Fountain screenplays

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Afterwriting CLI is a command line tool that lets you generate PDF from your fountain script using node.js.

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Trouble Ticketing

OTRS – ticket and process management system

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

OTRS is a Ticket Request System with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails.

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