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There are a number of different ways of mounting an ISO image under Linux. The venerable mount command offers an easy solution. But if you need tools that offer more functionality for working with disk images, try some of the following excellent open source tools.
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We all face information overload. Whether you conduct business online, read for your job, or just read for pleasure, the internet is a vast source of information. Retaining that information on a long-term basis can be difficult. However, it is essential to recall certain items of information immediately. Passwords are one such example.
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This software automates the configuration of machines to a particular state. Like any other tools, they are designed to solve specific problems in certain ways. The goal is to get a system from whatever state it is in, into the desired state. Configuration management software are the tools of choice for many system administrators and devops professionals.
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Do you need to monitor your systems, but top doesn’t provide enough information. Check out these feature-laden top alternatives.
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I-Nex is an open source system and hardware information tool similar to the Windows utility, CPU-Z.
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The Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) allows users to run diagnostic tools from most CDROM drives on Intel-compatible machines, no operating system required.
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There is a good range of lightweight web servers released under an open source license. To provide an insight in the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 high quality open source lightweight web servers. Hopefully there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to run a web server.
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An application server is computer software which provides the business logic for an application program. It offers services such as management of large distributed systems, data services, load balancing, transaction support, and network security. The application server is one part of a three-tier application, consisting of a graphical interface server, an application (business logic) server, and a database / transaction server. Many application servers support the Java platform, but they can be found in other environments.
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PIKT (Problem Informant/Killer Tool) is a cross-categorical, multi-purpose software for monitoring and configuring computer systems.
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Smart Framework for Object Groups is a powerful and flexible software framework for configuring, deploying and managing distributed software systems.
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Simple Backup Solution is a set of backend backup daemon and GNOME Graphical User Interface (GUI) frontends. Free and open source software.
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Chukwa is a data collection system for managing large distributed systems. It is a Hadoop subproject.
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Configuration Management is a term that may not be familiar to many Linux users. But for system administrators the concept will be well known. In a nutshell, Configuration Management software enables administrators to automatically manage the entire configuration of one or multiple computers.
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Linux and other operating systems are blessed with powerful tools to retrieve and recover valuable data. However, it is not always possible to recover data on a running system. Sometimes the machine will not even boot. This might arise if the boot loader has become corrupted, there is damage to a partition, or vital operating system files have been lost.
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A disk usage analyzer is a utility which helps users to visualize the disk space being used by each folder and files on a hard disk or other storage media. This type of application often generates a graphical chart to help the visualization process.
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