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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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