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Vulnerability Detection

12 Best Free and Open Source Vulnerability Detection Tools

February 24, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Security

Vulnerability scanning is an essential activity for enterprise security. We recommend the best free and open source vulnerability detection tools.

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Prometheus – systems and service monitoring system

February 19, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit. Prometheus collects and stores its metrics as time series data.

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Examine – system information viewer

February 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Examine is a system information viewer for the COSMIC Desktop. It runs on other desktops.

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Encryption software

File Lock PEA – filesystem-level encryption

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms Security

File Lock PEA (PEA = Password Encrypting Archive) encrypts data at the filesystem level

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Hypervisors

Boxes – view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Boxes is a simple GNOME application to view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems.

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Email

bower – curses frontend for the Notmuch email system

February 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

bower is a curses frontend for the Notmuch email system. There are two main views: the index, and the combined thread/pager.

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Testing Software

Bats – Bash Automated Testing System

February 1, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework. It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs you write behave as expected.

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Monitor System

xfce4-taskmanager – monitor system resources

January 31, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

xfce4-taskmanager is an easy to use task manager.

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Tools that help you

halp is a CLI tool to get help with CLI tools

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

halp aims to help find the correct arguments for command-line tools by checking the predefined list of commonly used options/flags.

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Monitor System

Evisum – Enlightenment system monitor

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Evisum is a system monitor using Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL).

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YASnippet – template system for Emacs

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

YASnippet is a template system for Emacs. It allows you to type an abbreviation and automatically expand it into function templates.

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Tools that help you

eg provides examples of common uses of command line tools

January 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

eg will give you useful examples right at the command line. Think of it as a companion tool for man.

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Command Schedulers

sysz – fzf terminal UI for systemctl

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

sysz is an fzf terminal UI for systemctl. This is public domain software.

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Command Schedulers

systemctl-tui – interact with systemd services

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

systemctl-tui is a fast, simple TUI for interacting with systemd services and their logs.

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Linux

Zutty – high-end terminal emulator for low-end systems

January 18, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Zutty is a terminal emulator with a radically simple, yet extremely efficient rendering implementation.

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System

Topgrade – system specific update tool

January 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Topgrade detects which tools you use and runs the appropriate commands to update them.

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Archey 4 – simple system information tool

January 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Archey is a simple system information tool written in Python.

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System network administration

KatharĂ¡ – lightweight network emulation system

January 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

KatharĂ¡ is a lightweight network emulation system based on Docker containers. It’s written in Python.

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Development Tools

SrTemplate – string template system

December 31, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

Mr. strings template (SrTemplate) is a library that allows you to render just text templates. It’s written in Rust.

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Web Content Management Systems

Pages CMS – content management system for static site generators

December 23, 2024 Steve Emms Web Apps

Pages CMS is a content management system for GitHub. It is well suited for static site generators (e.g. Jekyll, Next.js, VuePress, Hugo).

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