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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Excellent System Utilities: Pingnoo – traceroute/ping analyser
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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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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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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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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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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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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Essential System Tools: Unison – Excellent Console and Graphical File Synchronization Software
Unison is a file-synchronization tool that allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
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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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Essential System Tools: QDirStat – Excellent Qt-based directory statistics
QDirStat is an open source graphical application to show where your disk space has gone and to help you to clean up the mess. It fully merits its inclusion in our Essential System Tools feature.
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15 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 are our recommendations.
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Excellent System Utilities: Ventoy – create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
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Essential System Tools: Krusader – KDE file manager
Krusader is an advanced, twin-panel (commander-style) file manager designed for KDE Plasma. Krusader also runs on other popular Linux desktop environments such as GNOME.
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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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