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Backup software

rdiff-backup – reverse differential backup tool

June 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

rdiff-backup is a command-line reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally. This is free and open source software written in Python.

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Blue Recorder – simple screen recorder written in Rust

February 9, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Blue Recorder is billed as a simple desktop recorder for Linux systems. It’s built using GTK4 and FFmpeg.

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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2023

December 24, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, Software

We’ve trawled through our statistics and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2023.

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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Statistical Analysis Tools

November 5, 2024 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

We recommend the finest software for performing statistical analysis. Open source goodness at its best.

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Excellent Utilities: pastel – generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

July 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. This tool supports a variety of color formats and color spaces.

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Hard disk image

8 Best Free and Open Source Hard Disk Utilities for System Tweakers

September 20, 2023 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

We showcase the finest open source tools to diagnose the health of a hard disk and improve its performance.

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Science

Gazebo Sim – robot simulation made easy

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Gazebo Sim offers the ability to accurately and efficiently simulate populations of robots in complex indoor and outdoor environments.

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Greece

vv – image viewer for sixel terminals

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

vv is different from the vast majority of image viewers. It’s a small command-line program to view images from the terminal.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: Firejail – Excellent Security Sandboxing

March 13, 2019 John O'Donnell Reviews, Software, System Software

This article looks at Firejail, a SUID sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces, Linux capabilities and seccomp-bpf.

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Linux

6 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Emulators Built With Web Technologies

July 28, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

This article recommends terminal emulators built with web technologies – JavaScript, HTML, CSS.

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