TimeShift is an open source system restore utility which takes incremental snapshots of the system using rsync and hard-links. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo all changes that were made to the system after the
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MKVToolNix – Matroska tools
MKVToolNix is a set of free and open source tools for the Matroska media container format by Moritz Bunkus including mkvmerge.
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Chukwa – data collection system for monitoring large distributed systems
Chukwa is a data collection system for managing large distributed systems. It is a Hadoop subproject.
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8 Essential Free Graphics Tools
Linux is a promising platform for artists, photographers, animators, and designers. With low cost hardware, good free software, and a modicum of natural ability and dedication, anyone can generate professional-looking computer graphics.
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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2019
We’ve run through our statistics, and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2019.
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kitty – hardware-accelerated terminal emulator
kitty offers GPU-acceleration and is targeted at power keyboard users. It’s billed as a modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator. Here’s a concise review of this terminal emulator.
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Excellent Utilities: lnav – the log file navigator
This is the second in a new series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We’ll be covering a wide range of utilities including tools that boost your productivity, help you manage your workflow, and lots more besides. For this article, we’ll put lnav under the spotlight.
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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2018
It’s common knowledge that Christmas is a time for merriment, goodwill to all people, and above all a time for lists. So there’s no better time to compile a roundup for the year. We’ve run through our statistics, and found our ten most well received posts that saw the highest page views this year.
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PluriOS – Bolivian Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS
PluriOS is an open-source project that aims to standardize a Linux desktop environment for Bolivia.
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DDRescue-GUI – frontend for ddrescue
DDRescue-GUI is a graphical frontend for ddrescue designed to simplify the process of recovering data from failing storage devices.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Econometric Software
Econometrics is the application of statistical or quantitative methods to understand economic issues and test theories, and models.
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GPU Hot – real-time NVIDIA GPU monitoring dashboard
GPU Hot is a lightweight, self-hosted web dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs in real time.
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Periscope – organize storage and safely remove redundant files
Periscope is a command-line duplicate file finder that helps you organize storage and safely remove redundant files without losing data.
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Go Find Duplicates – scans directories for duplicate files and directories
Go Find Duplicates is a command-line utility that scans directories for duplicate files and directories.
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Dentry – keyboard-driven file manager
Dentry is a minimal, keyboard-driven file manager for Linux built with Qt6.
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cecup – GUI backup tool based on rsync
cecup is a graphical backup and directory synchronisation tool built around rsync.
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strace-tui – explore strace output
strace-tui is a terminal user interface (TUI) for visualizing and exploring strace output.
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batctl – battery charge threshold manager for Linux laptops
batctl is a terminal UI and CLI tool that lets you control battery charge thresholds on Linux.
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diskard – TUI disk analyser
diskard is a developer-focused CLI utility that scans a system for reclaimable disk space created by development tools and environments.
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logana – fast terminal log viewer
logana is a fast terminal log viewer and analyzer designed to work efficiently with very large log files, including multi-GB logs
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