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This is the ninth in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small 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. Nmap is widely regarded as the de facto standard tool for network exploration and security auditing.
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fdupes finds duplicate files in the given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. The utility offers a lot of options to list, delete and replace files.
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Images are part of every day internet usage. We recommend the finest free and open source graphical image viewers available for Linux.
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BeeRef is Python-based software which lets you quickly arrange your reference images and view them while you create
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Clonezilla is a free and open source ncurses partition and disk imaging/cloning program. The software offers system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery.
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GATE is a project for the simulation of preclinical and clinical scans in emission tomography, transmission tomography and radiation therapy.
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A file manager is software which provides a user interface to assist in the organisation of files. It helps users manage their files.
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Neofetch is a command-line interface system information script written in bash 3.2+. The script displays information about your system next to an image, your operating system logo, or any ASCII/image file of your choice. It’s designed to capture information about your system and display it in an aesthetic and visually pleasing way.
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We look at GUI tools that let you see the difference between two files or two versions of the same file.
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superfile is billed as a very fancy and modern terminal file manager that can complete the file operations you need.
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Astronomy is a branch of science that deals with the study of celestial objects (including stars, planets, moons, comets, asteroids…).
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Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian.
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This is the tenth 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 ddrescue.
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pwall is billed as a modern style photo/video viewer and organizer.
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Medical imaging is an essential, non-invasive, routine activity performed by radiographers and radiologic technologists.
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