We look at Pingnoo, an open-source cross-platform application for analysing and measuring the round trip time (latency) between two hosts.
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Essential System Tools: hyperfine – command-line benchmarking tool
hyperfine is a command-line benchmarking tool. It’s designed to measure the full execution time of a program. This open source tool is written in Rust.
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FunOS – minimal, fast, and secure Linux distribution
FunOS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS. It uses the JWM window manager, comes without Snap, and includes the latest Ubuntu HWE kernel.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Revision Control Tools
Version control systems play an essential role for developers. Explore our recommended free and open source tools.
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9 Useful Free and Open Source Reverse Vulnerability Analysis Tools
Vulnerability analysis is an essential activity for enterprise security. We recommend useful open source tools.
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Excellent System Utilities: Fail2ban – ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors
Fail2ban is a daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors. Fail2ban is free and open source software.
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21 Best Free and Open Source Linux System Profilers
A system profiler is a utility that presents information about the hardware attached to a computer. Here’s our verdict.
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Essential System Tools: Firejail – Excellent Security Sandboxing
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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Essential System Tools: VeraCrypt – Strong disk encryption software
VeraCrypt is a free open source cross-platform disk encryption software that builds on the discontinued TrueCrypt.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – Utilities
Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering compression tools, system cleaning, password managers, font tools, essential utilities.
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Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks: Server Security from TLS to Tor
This guide explores the approach needed to protect Linux servers including the implementation of Transport Layer Security protocols and Tor.
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FlexGet – multipurpose automation download tool
FlexGet is a multipurpose automation tool for all of your media.
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5 Best Free and Open Source Linux MAC/RBAC Tools
Harden a computer system or network using access controls such as Mandatory Access Control (MAC) or Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
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8 Best Free and Open Source Vulnerability Detection Tools
Vulnerability scanning is an essential activity for enterprise security. We recommend the best free and open source vulnerability detection tools.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Console Log File Analyzers
Almost everything that happens on a Linux system is logged in some way. We feature the finest open source console-based log file analyzers.
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