40 Open Source System Utilities
Software, Tips and Tools, Open Source
- February 5, 2008
LinksHere you'll find a pretty decent list with tons of free, open source system utilities… Sweet.
Recommended:
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Zenoss http://www.zenoss.com/ Open Source Application, Server, and Network Management |
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7-Zip | |
| http://www.7-zip.org/ | ||
| 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. | ||
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Amanda | |
| http://www.amanda.org/ | ||
| AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts over network to tape drives/changers or disks or optical media. | ||
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Bacula | |
| http://www.bacula.org/ | ||
| Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. | ||
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BiGZip | |
| http://bigzip.sourceforge.net/ | ||
| BiGZiP is a FREE Java based compression utility. It does what other programs do but in a Java Environment, so no matter what your OS is, as long as you can run Java, you can run BiGZiP. | ||
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Burn | |
| http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/ | ||
| burning application for Mac OS X | ||
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CamStudio | |
| http://www.camstudio.org/ | ||
| CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) | ||
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CDRDAO | |
| http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ | ||
| Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents | ||
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coLinux | |
| http://www.colinux.org/ | ||
| Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. | ||
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Cream | |
| http://cream.sourceforge.net/ | ||
| a modern configuration of the Vim text editor | ||
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G4U | |
| http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ | ||
| g4u ("ghosting for unix") is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of PC harddisks to deploy a common setup on a number of PCs using FTP. | ||
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GrenEye | |
| http://www.bluechillies.com/details/8644.html | ||
| File Slice and Compression Utility. Copy VERY LARGE FILES to CD or to Floppy. | ||
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GNU zip | |
| http://www.gzip.org/ | ||
| gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement for compress. | ||
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GParted | |
| http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ | ||
| GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor application. | ||
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Handbrake | |
| http://handbrake.m0k.org/ | ||
| DVD to MPEG-4 converter | ||
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InfraRecorder | |
| http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/ | ||
| InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. | ||
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Info-ZIP | |
| http://www.info-zip.org/ | ||
| Info-ZIP's purpose is to provide free, portable, high-quality versions of the Zip and UnZip compressor-archiver utilities that are compatible with the DOS-based PKZIP by PKWARE, Inc. | ||
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Inno Setup | |
| http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php | ||
| Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs. | ||
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InstallJammer | |
| http://www.installjammer.com/ | ||
| A free, open source, multiplatform installer and builder | ||
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jEdit | |
| http://www.jedit.org/ | ||
| Edit is a mature programmer's text editor | ||
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Emacs | |
| http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html | ||
| Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. | ||
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K3b | |
| http://k3b.plainblack.com/ | ||
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Launch4j | |
| http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/ | ||
| Launch4j is a cross-platform tool for wrapping Java applications distributed as jars in lightweight Windows native executables. | ||
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Nagios | |
| http://www.nagios.org/ | ||
| Nagios® is an Open Source host, service and network monitoring program. | ||
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NeDi | |
| http://nedi.sourceforge.net/about.html | ||
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Notepad++ | |
| http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/ | ||
| Notepad++ is a free (free as in "free speech", but also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. | ||
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NSIS | |
| http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ | ||
| NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. | ||
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Open-source ARJ | |
| http://arj.sourceforge.net/ | ||
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OpenNMS | |
| http://www.opennms.org/ | ||
| OpenNMS is the world's first enterprise grade network management platform developed under the open source model. | ||
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OpenVZ | |
| http://openvz.org/ | ||
| OpenVZ is an Operating System-level server virtualization solution, built on Linux. | ||
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Pandora FMS | |
| http://pandora.sourceforge.net/ | ||
| Pandora FMS is a monitoring Open Source software. It watches your systems and applications, and allows you to know the status of any element of those systems. | ||
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Partition Image | |
| http://www.partimage.org/ | ||
| Description: Partimage is a Linux utility which saves partitions having a supported filesystem to an image file. | ||
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SciTE | |
| http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html | ||
| SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. | ||
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UPX | |
| http://upx.sourceforge.net/ | ||
| the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables | ||
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VirtualBox | |
| http://www.virtualbox.org/ | ||
| innotek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. | ||
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Wireshark | |
| http://www.wireshark.org/ | ||
| Wireshark is an award-winning network protocol analyzer developed by an international team of networking experts. | ||
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Xen | |
| http://www.xensource.com/ | ||
| Virtualization | ||
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Xming | |
| http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming | ||
| Xming is the leading free unlimited X Window server for Microsoft Windows (XP/2003/Vista). | ||
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Xvidcap | |
| http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/ | ||
| a small tool to capture things going on on an X-Windows display to either individual frames or an MPEG video | ||
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Zenoss | |
| http://www.zenoss.com/ | ||
| Open Source Application, Server, and Network Management | ||
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Zzip | |
| http://debin.net/zzip/ | ||
| a new powerful compression tool for Win9x/Me/NT/2000 and Unix | ||
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11 Responses to “40 Open Source System Utilities”
Some description of what the utilities actually do would be nice…
By ron c on Feb 5, 2008
This is a pretty nice list, though it would be nice if there had been a bit more of a description on some of them. A few only have the URL. Speaking of the URL… why no links?
By Jonathan Franzone on Feb 5, 2008
yeah… the thumbnails are clickable links!
By Jason on Feb 5, 2008
Thanks for the recommendation Jason.
By Mark Hinkle on Feb 6, 2008
nice list, thanks for sharing.
http://www.golfnorwich.com/
By http://www.floors4u.net/ on Feb 6, 2008
Thanks man..
Great info.
By Shyam on Feb 7, 2008
Thanks for the listing; it is a good starting point for those interested in open source software.
By Bruce Codding on Feb 27, 2008
Wow, great list. Thanks for posting.
http://www.floors4u.net/
By http://www.floors4u.net/ on Apr 4, 2008
Hi Jason,
thanks for sharing.
http://www.kooksoft.com
By Mike on Aug 30, 2008