nmon is short for Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux. It’s a very versatile tool that can be shaped to your exact requirements. It fully warrants its place in our Essential System Tools feature.
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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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FlexGet – multipurpose automation download tool
FlexGet is a multipurpose automation tool for all of your media.
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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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Essential System Tools: QJournalctl – Graphical User Interface for systemd’s journalctl
This is the latest in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities.
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Percona Toolkit – collection of advanced open source command-line tools
Percona Toolkit (formerly Maatkit) provides essential command-line utilities for MySQL. Work more safely and quickly by relying on tested software
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Essential System Tools: f3 – detect and fix counterfeit flash storage
f3 is a set of 5 open source utilities that detect and repair counterfeit flash storage. It achieves this by testing the flash cards’ capacity and performance.
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Fontconfig – library for configuring and customizing font access
Fontconfig is a library designed to provide system-wide font configuration, customization and application access.
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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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Rescuezilla – Easy Backup, Recovery & Bare Metal Restore
Rescuezilla (formerly known as Redo Backup and Recovery) is so simple and user-friendly that anyone can use it.
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15 Best Free and Open Source Linux MySQL Tools
This article identifies 15 open source tools which help to reduce the complexity associated with the powerful database software.
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Essential System Tools: Timeshift – Reliable system restore tool for Linux
This is the twelfth in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. For this article, we’ll look at Timeshift.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Linux Reference Management Tools
Reference management software is software for academics and authors to use to record and use bibliographic citations.
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PreviewQt – preview all kinds of files
PreviewQt is a file previewer that strives to be lightweight, very fast, and simple. It supports a huge range of files and formats.
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5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Partitioning Tools
Disk partitioning is the means of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions.
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