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Student Information Systems

openSIS – student information system

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Education

openSIS is an open source student information system for public and non-public schools. The software rivals costly commercial alternatives.

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CPU

Ninja – small build system

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Ninja is a small build system (similar to make) with a focus on speed. Ninja is free and open source software.

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CPU

CMake – build system generator

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

CMake is a free and open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software.

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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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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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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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Hard disk

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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Font Tools

GNOME Fonts – view fonts on your system

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

GNOME Fonts shows you the fonts installed on your computer for your use as thumbnails. This is free and open source software.

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Accountancy

SQL-Ledger – web-based ERP system

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Financial

SQL-Ledger is a double entry accounting system. Accounting data is stored in an SQL Database Server and a standard web browse as its user interface.

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Accountancy

ledger – powerful, command-line double-entry accounting system

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

Ledger is a command-line based double-entry bookkeeping application that uses text files for input.

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Email

Alpine – based on the Pine Message System

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Alpine (Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email) is a fast, free, easy to use console based email client.

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Font Tools

ftCLI – edit fonts using FontTools

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ftCLI is a command line interface built with click to edit fonts using FontTools. Python 3.7 or later is required to install ftCLI.

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Font Tools

fontTools – library to manipulate font files from Python

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

fontTools is a library for manipulating fonts, written in Python.The project includes the TTX tool, that can convert TrueType and OpenType fonts to and from an XML text format.

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