Linux has lots of terminal emulators. What distinguishes Alacritty from the vast majority of terminal emulators? It differentiates itself by offering GPU-acceleration combined with a minimal feature set.
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Essential System Tools: pet – command-line snippet manager
This is the third 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. pet is a simple command-line snippet manager. The software is written in the Go programming language.
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Kopia – backup/restore tool
Kopia is a fast and secure backup/restore tool creating encrypted snapshots of your data and saving the snapshots to remote or cloud storage
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Essential System Tools: gtop – System monitoring dashboard for the terminal
This is the second 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. gtop is an open source system monitoring utility written in JavaScript.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Atlassian Bamboo
Bamboo is a continuous integration and delivery tool that ties automated builds, tests, and releases in a single workflow. What are the best free and open source alternatives?
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Awesome Linux Game Tools: Heroic Games Launcher – GOG and Epic Games
Heroic Games Launcher (“Heroic”) is a free and open source games launcher for Epic Games and GOG. It’s a cross-platform tool.
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UrBackup – client/server backup system
UrBackup is an easy to setup open source client/server backup system offering a combination of image and file backups.
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Essential System Tools: journalctl – query and display messages from the journal
This is the eighth 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. For this article, we’ll examine journalctl, a systemd utility.
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Déjà Dup – simple backup software
Déjà Dup is a simple backup tool. The software hides the complexity of doing backups the ‘right way’ (encrypted, off-site, and regular).
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Spacedrive – file manager powered by a virtual distributed filesystem
Spacedrive is a file manager which seeks a different approach. It implements a VDFS (virtual distributed filesystem), a filesystem that works across multiple storage layers.
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luckyBackup – backup & sync tool
luckyBackup is an application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync. It’s free and open source software.
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Quod Libet – GTK+-based audio player
Quod Libet is a mature music player with music management functionality. It’s written in Python.
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fooyin – customisable music player
Fooyin is billed as a customisable music player. It’s based on Qt 6.6.1, written in C++ and published under an open source license.
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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2019
We’ve run through our statistics, and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2019.
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Essential System Tools: ps_mem – accurately report memory usage of programs
This is the first in a 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 will examine both graphical and text based open source utilities. The first tool under the spotlight is ps_mem, a small utility that reliably reports how much memory is consumed by an application.
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