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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Apache HTTP Server – HTTP server for modern operating systems

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, Apache has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.

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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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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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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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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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Lustre – parallel file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Lustre is a massively, global, parallel distributed file system, generally used for large scale cluster computing.

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Ceph – unified, distributed storage system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Ceph is a unified, distributed storage, massively scalable system designed for excellent performance, reliability and scalability.

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Hadoop Distributed File System – portable file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is a distributed, scalable, and portable file system written in Java for the Hadoop framework.

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Quantcast File System – high-performance, fault-tolerant, distributed file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Quantcast File System (QFS) is a high-performance, fault-tolerant, distributed file system developed to support MapReduce processing.

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OrangeFS – open-source parallel file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

OrangeFS is an open-source, multi-server scalable parallel file system targeted at production parallel computation environments.

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Alluxio – virtual distributed file system

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Alluxio is a virtual distributed storage system. It bridges the gap between computation frameworks and storage systems.

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XtreemFS – object-based, distributed file system for wide area networks

October 6, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

XtreemFS is a general purpose storage system and covers most storage needs in a single deployment. XtreemFS is free and open source software.

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Maths

SINGULAR – Computer Algebra System for Polynomial Computations

September 26, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

SINGULAR is a Computer Algebra System for polynomial computations with special emphasis on the needs of commutative algebra.

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