February 5th, 2008
40 Open Source System Utilities
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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Comments
Some description of what the utilities actually do would be nice…
ron c
February 5th, 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?
Jonathan Franzone
February 5th, 2008
yeah… the thumbnails are clickable links!
Jason
February 5th, 2008
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February 5th, 2008
Thanks for the recommendation Jason.
Mark Hinkle
February 6th, 2008
nice list, thanks for sharing.
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February 6th, 2008
Thanks man..
Great info.
Shyam
February 7th, 2008
Thanks for the listing; it is a good starting point for those interested in open source software.
Bruce Codding
February 27th, 2008
Wow, great list. Thanks for posting.
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May 19th, 2008
Hi Jason,
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