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fdupes finds duplicate files in the given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. The utility offers a lot of options to list, delete and replace files.
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Clonezilla is a free and open source ncurses partition and disk imaging/cloning program. The software offers system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery.
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Neofetch is a command-line interface system information script written in bash 3.2+. The script displays information about your system next to an image, your operating system logo, or any ASCII/image file of your choice. It’s designed to capture information about your system and display it in an aesthetic and visually pleasing way.
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This is the tenth in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. For this article, we’ll look at ddrescue.
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A system profiler is a utility that presents information about the hardware attached to a computer. Here are our recommendations.
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This is the fifth in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. inxi is a Perl script that interrogates your system.
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Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering compression tools, system cleaning, password managers, font tools, essential utilities.
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Harden a computer system or network using access controls such as Mandatory Access Control (MAC) or Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
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Glances is a system administration tool that replaces a whole host of command-line utilities. Here’s our review of Glances.
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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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Vulnerability scanning is an essential activity for enterprise security. We recommend the best free and open source vulnerability detection tools.
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Rescuezilla (formerly known as Redo Backup and Recovery) is so simple and user-friendly that anyone can use it.
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This article identifies 15 open source tools which help to reduce the complexity associated with the powerful database software.
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This guide explores the approach needed to protect Linux servers including the implementation of Transport Layer Security protocols and Tor.
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Disk partitioning is the means of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions.
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