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System administration

DNSControl – system for maintaining DNS zones

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

DNSControl is a system for maintaining DNS zones managing your DNS configuration across any number of DNS hosts.

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System administration

Atomia DNS – multi tenant system

July 14, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Atomia DNS is a multi tenant system for handling large amounts of DNS data through programmatic interfaces.

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COMTool – serial debug tools

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

COMTool is a cross platform serial debug tool. It’s written in Python.

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System network administration

OpenWISP – modular and programmable network management system

July 6, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

OpenWISP is a solution for efficient IT network deployment, monitoring & management.

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ProtonPlus – modern compatibility tools manager

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

ProtonPlus lets you install and manage Wine/Proton based compatibility tools with a graphical user interface.

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Typesetting Tools

23 Essential Free and Open Source LaTeX Tools – typeset beautifully

June 24, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Scientific

LaTeX is a document preparation system and document markup language for high-quality typesetting. We feature the best LaTeX tools.

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Astronomy-Juno

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Astronomical Data Analysis Tools

June 17, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Astronomy is a branch of science that deals with the study of celestial objects (including stars, planets, moons, comets, asteroids…).

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Coding

Sysprof – profile an application or entire system

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Programming

Sysprof is a sampling profiler that uses a kernel module to generate stacktraces which are then interpreted by the userspace program “sysprof”.

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Command Schedulers

chkservice is a terminal-based tool for managing systemd units

May 29, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, TUI

chkservice is a tool for managing systemd units. It sports a TUI interface and is written in C++

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Command Schedulers

systemd-analyse helps uncover performance problems

May 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

The systemd init system provides the systemd-analyze tool that can help find performance problems and other important systemd information.

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