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Wiki Engines

PmWiki – wiki-based content management system

November 3, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

PmWiki project is a wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. It offers a simple-to-install system.

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Data Visualization

Diagrams – draw the cloud system architecture in Python code

November 3, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Diagrams lets you draw the cloud system architecture in Python code. Diagrams is free and open source software.

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Bioinformatics

NAMD – high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems

November 3, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

NAMD is a parallel, object-oriented molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems.

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Gamer Utilities

GreenWithEnvy – system utility providing information, control fans and overclock NVIDIA cards

November 2, 2023 Steve Emms Games

GreenWithEnvy is a GTK system utility designed to provide information, control the fans and overclock your NVIDIA video card and graphics processor. The utility’s name derives from the slogan of the GeForce 8 series, that was “Green with envy”. Nvidia

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GameMode – optimizse Linux system performance on demand

November 2, 2023 Steve Emms Games

GameMode is a daemon/lib that allows games to request a set of optimizations be temporarily applied to the host OS and/or a game process.

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dna-medical

GNU Health – health and hospital information system

November 1, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

GNU Health is a project for health practitioners, health institutions and governments. It provides the functionality of Electronic Medical Record (EMR), Hospital Management (HMIS) and Health Information System (HIS).

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FreeMED – Electronic Medical Record and Practice Management system

November 1, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

FreeMED is a full featured, open source Electronic Medical Record system and Practice Administration package based on Apache, MySQL and PHP.

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Monitor System

bottom – cross-platform graphical process/system monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bottom is customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal. The tool is inspired by gtop, gotop, and htop.

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Monitor System

Conky – system monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Conky is an open source system monitor that can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window.

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Monitor System

Saidar – view the system statistics available through libstatgrab

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Saidar is a curses-based free and open source application for viewing the system statistics available through libstatgrab.

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ERP

PostBooks – ERP for sales, accounting, operations and CRM in a single system

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

PostBooks is an open source accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning business (ERP) system targeted at small to medium sized businesses.

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Documentation

trasher – replace rm and del by a trash system

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Trasher is a small command-line utility that aims to replace rm. It moves items to a trash directory instead of deleting them immediately.

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Circuit board

Fastfetch – fetch system information

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Fastfetch is a system information tool written in C. It aims to be a faster alternative to the hugely respected Neofetch tool.

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Circuit board

macchina – system information fetcher

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

macchina lets you view system information, like your kernel version, uptime, memory usage, processor load and much more.

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Circuit board

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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Circuit board

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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