Web caches have become a vital mechanism for optimizing the amount of data that is delivered in a given period of time. Good web caches also help to minimise latency, serving pages as quickly as possible.
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10 Useful Alternatives to the Top Utility
top is a very popular utility. It helps with system administration by identifying users and processes that are hogging the system. It is also useful for non-system administrators, helping to track and kill errant processes. However, top is showing its age and there are a bunch of utilities that offer a more feature-laden alternative. The purpose of this article is to identify alternatives to top that offer more control in managing processes on a running system.
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Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal
Terminal Image Viewer is a small program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters. It’s free and open source software.
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Best Free and Open Source Linux Guitar Tools
This feature recommends the finest Linux applications that are targeted at guitarists. All of the software featured here is open source, free to download, and are easy to install and intuitive to use.
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Increasing Lab Efficiency with an Open Source LIMS
A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is a software-based laboratory and information management system that provides streamlined workflow automation and management. This type of software is typically used in analytical laboratories such as R&D labs, in-process testing labs and quality assurance labs.
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Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools
ASCII art is a graphic design technique that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures put together from characters defined by the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) standard.
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Best Free and Open Source Media Centers
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 impressive free Linux media centers. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to turn their Linux computer into a multimedia hub.
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Best Free and Open Source Load Balancers
Load balancing is defined as the methodical and efficient distribution of network or application traffic across multiple servers. Here’s our recommended free and open source load balancers.
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Best Free and Open Source Linux Configuration Management Software
Configuration management software are the tools of choice for many system administrators and devops professionals. Here’s our recommendations.
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Mark Text – simple and elegant open source Markdown editor
Mark Text is billed as a simple and elegant open-source markdown editor that focuses on speed and usability.
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