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Data Tools

Redo Rescue – backup and recovery solution

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Redo Rescue can backup and restore an entire system in minutes, with a simple point-and-click interface. Free and open source software.

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safecopy – data recovery tool

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a seekable, but problematic source.

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Knoppix – Live distribution

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Knoppix is a bootable CD with a collection of open source Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and much more.

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Rescuezilla – Easy Backup, Recovery & Bare Metal Restore

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Rescuezilla (formerly known as Redo Backup and Recovery) is so simple and user-friendly that anyone can use it.

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PhotoRec – file data recovery software

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

PhotoRec is a data recovery software tool designed to recover lost files from digital camera memory. It’s free and open source software.

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TestDisk – powerful free data recovery software

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

TestDisk is a powerful data recovery software. Designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again.

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Trinity Rescue Kit – live Linux distribution

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) is a live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines.

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Mondo Rescue – disaster recovery solution

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Mondo is a reliable, disaster recovery solution. It backs up a Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW, NFS or hard disk partition.

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Web Design

Node.js – cross-platform JavaScript run-time environment

October 7, 2023 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications.

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Caddy – powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Caddy is a powerful, extensible web server to serve your sites, services, and apps. It offers automatic HTTPS.

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Hiawatha – advanced and secure webserver

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Hiawatha is a secure and advanced open source web server available for multiple platforms. It particularly focuses on security.

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lighttpd – web server

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

lighttpd is a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible open source web server which has been optimized for speed-critical environments.

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netperf – networking benchmark software

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure the performance of many different types of networking. It’s free and open source software.

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Benchmarking

Phoronix Test Suite – automated benchmarking

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

The Phoronix Test Suite is an open source comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform that provides an extensible framework.

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Web Design

nginx – hugely popular open source web server

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

nginx is a lightweight, open-source, very powerful and efficient web server and reverse proxy. Uses a scalable event-driven architecture.

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fio – scriptable I/O tool for storage benchmarks and drive testing

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fio allows benchmarking specific disk IO workloads. It can issue its IO requests using one of many synchronous and asynchronous IO APIs.

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Angie – web server

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Angie is an efficient, powerful, and scalable web server that was forked from nginx. It’s free and open source software.

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Bonnie++ – benchmark suite software

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms System Software, Utilities

Bonnie++ is an open source benchmark suite that is aimed at performing a number of simple tests of hard drive and file system performance.

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GNOME Disks – view, modify and configure disks and media

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

GNOME Disks is free and open source software to inspect, format, partition and configure disks and block devices.

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Benchmarking

LLCbench – low level architectural characterization benchmark suite

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Low Level Architectural Characterization Benchmark Suite (LLCbench) is a suite of three different benchmark applications.

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