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Tmuxinator – manage complex tmux sessions easily

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Tmuxinator is a free and open source utility that helps users create and manage tmux sessions in an easier way.

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System administration

aardvark-dns – authoritative dns server

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

aardvark-dns is an authoritative dns server for A/AAAA container records. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

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System administration

MaraDNS – small DNS server

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

MaraDNS is a small and lightweight cross-platform open-source DNS server. It’s written in the C programming language.

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gdnsd – authoritative-only DNS server

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

gdnsd is an Authoritative-only DNS server. This is free and open source software written in the C programming language.

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System administration

encrypted-dns – modern encrypted DNS server

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

encrypted-dns is an easy to install, high-performance, zero maintenance proxy to run an encrypted DNS server.

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System administration

Dnsmasq – provides network infrastructure for small networks

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Dnsmasq provides network infrastructure for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot.

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System administration

acme-dns – simplified DNS server

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

acme-dns is a simplified DNS server with a RESTful HTTP API to provide a simple way to automate ACME DNS challenges.

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YADIFA – lightweight authoritative Name Server with DNSSEC capabilities

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

YADIFA is a lightweight authoritative Name Server with DNSSEC capabilities. This is free and open source software.

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System administration

Unbound – validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Unbound is a validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver. It’s written in the C programming language and is open source software.

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System administration

Knot DNS – authoritative-only DNS server

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Knot DNS is a high-performance authoritative-only DNS server which supports all key features of the modern domain name system.

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NSD – NLnet Labs Name Server Daemon

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

The NLnet Labs Name Server Daemon (NSD) is an authoritative DNS name server.

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System administration

PowerDNS – Authoritative server, the Recursor, and Dnsdist

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

PowerDNS consists of three DNS software products (the Authoritative server, the Recursor, and Dnsdist).

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System administration

CoreDNS – DNS server that chains plugins

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

CoreDNS is a DNS server/forwarder, written in Go, that chains plugins. Each plugin performs a (DNS) function.

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Hard disk

Duplicity – encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using rsync algorithm

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Duplicity incrementally backs up files and directory by encrypting tar-format volumes with GnuPG and uploading them to a remote (or local) file server.

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Hard disk

restic – fast, efficient and secure backup software

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. The software allows saving multiple revisions of files and directories in an encrypted repository stored on different backends.

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Hard disk

Borg – deduplicating backup software

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Borg is a fork of Attic. It is a secure, free and open source deduplicating backup program designed for efficient data storage.

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fontvuer – cross platform font viewer

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

fontvuer is a cross platform font viewer. You can preview fonts that are installed on your system.

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Font Tools

Opcion Font Viewer – font viewer written in Java

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Opcion Font Viewer is a Java based font viewer that allows users to view (un)installed TrueType fonts one or many at a time.

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Font Tools

fntsample – make font samples

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

fntsample is a tool that can be used to make font samples that show coverage of the font and are similar in appearance to Unicode Charts.

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Font Tools

KFontview – view and install fonts

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

KFontview is an application to view and install fonts. It’s also a standalone program to preview and install fonts from the net.

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