Jason 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:  

 

Zenoss

http://www.zenoss.com/

Open Source Application, Server, and Network Management 

   
 
  7-Zip
http://www.7-zip.org/
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. 
  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.  
  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.  
  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.  
  Burn
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/
burning application for Mac OS X  
  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)  
  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  
  coLinux
http://www.colinux.org/
Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively.  
  Cream
http://cream.sourceforge.net/
a modern configuration of the Vim text editor  
  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.  
  GrenEye
http://www.bluechillies.com/details/8644.html
File Slice and Compression Utility. Copy VERY LARGE FILES to CD or to Floppy.   
  GNU zip
http://www.gzip.org/
gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement for compress.  
  GParted
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor application.  
  Handbrake
http://handbrake.m0k.org/
DVD to MPEG-4 converter
  InfraRecorder
http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/
InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows.  
  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.  
  Inno Setup
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs. 
  InstallJammer
http://www.installjammer.com/
A free, open source, multiplatform installer and builder  
  jEdit
http://www.jedit.org/
Edit is a mature programmer's text editor  
  Emacs
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.  
  K3b
http://k3b.plainblack.com/
    
  Launch4j
http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/
Launch4j is a cross-platform tool for wrapping Java applications distributed as jars in lightweight Windows native executables.  
  Nagios
http://www.nagios.org/
Nagios® is an Open Source host, service and network monitoring program.  
  NeDi
http://nedi.sourceforge.net/about.html
    
  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.  
  NSIS
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers.  
  Open-source ARJ
http://arj.sourceforge.net/
    
  OpenNMS
http://www.opennms.org/
OpenNMS is the world's first enterprise grade network management platform developed under the open source model.  
  OpenVZ
http://openvz.org/
OpenVZ is an Operating System-level server virtualization solution, built on Linux.  
  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.   
  Partition Image
http://www.partimage.org/
Description: Partimage is a Linux utility which saves partitions having a supported filesystem to an image file.  
  SciTE
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor.  
  UPX
http://upx.sourceforge.net/
the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables 
  VirtualBox
http://www.virtualbox.org/
innotek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use.  
  Wireshark
http://www.wireshark.org/
Wireshark is an award-winning network protocol analyzer developed by an international team of networking experts.   
  Xen
http://www.xensource.com/
Virtualization    
  Xming
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming
Xming is the leading free unlimited X Window server for Microsoft Windows (XP/2003/Vista).  
  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  
  Zenoss
http://www.zenoss.com/
Open Source Application, Server, and Network Management  
  Zzip
http://debin.net/zzip/
a new powerful compression tool for Win9x/Me/NT/2000 and Unix  

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Comments

  1. Some description of what the utilities actually do would be nice…


    ron c
    February 5th, 2008

  2. 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

  3. yeah… the thumbnails are clickable links!


    Jason
    February 5th, 2008

  4. [...] posted a list of 40 Open Source System Utilities this week. He mentions Zenoss on the list but of course since Zenoss starts with a “z” [...]


    Zenoss Blog » 40 Open Source System Utilities
    February 5th, 2008

  5. Thanks for the recommendation Jason.


    Mark Hinkle
    February 6th, 2008

  6. nice list, thanks for sharing.

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    February 6th, 2008

  7. Thanks man..
    Great info.


    Shyam
    February 7th, 2008

  8. Thanks for the listing; it is a good starting point for those interested in open source software.


    Bruce Codding
    February 27th, 2008

  9. Wow, great list. Thanks for posting.

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