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Bitflu – free opensource BitTorrent client in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 22nd June 2009

Bitflu is a free opensource BitTorrent client released under “The Artistic License”. Bitflu is written in Perl and is designed to run as a daemon on Linux, *BSD and maybe even OSX.

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Back In Time – free backup tool in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 22nd June 2009

Back In Time is a simple free backup tool for Linux. The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories. “Back In Time” in real terms is a nice GUI that holds and stears the most common unix/linux commands to performs backups for you. “Back In Time” has got a nice GUI which works well both for GNOME & KDE (KDE4 and higher)

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Install & Configure Nagios in less than 5 minutes

Posted by admin on 21st June 2009

Nagios is a free opensource enterprise-class monitoring system released under GPL License. It allows you to gain insight into your network and fix problems before customers know they even exist. It’s stable, scalable, supported, and extensible. Nagios is Stable, Reliable, and Respected Platform with 10 years in development scaling to 100,000+ nodes. From my personal view, Nagios is one of the best if not the best monitoring system and being opensource makes it that extra special. Nagios is simple and at the same time very flexible made possible by the plugin architecture and most importantly as the author puts it, it just works.

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Goggles Music Manager (GMM) music manager & player in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 17th June 2009

Goggles Music Manager (GMM) is a free opensource (licensed under GPLv3) music collection manager and music player that automatically categorizes your music files based on genre, artist, album and song. It supports gapless playback and features easy tag editing.  Googgles Music Manager is fast light-weight and starts up very quickly and there is no delay with splash screens

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gPodder to download free audio and video podcasts

Posted by admin on 17th June 2009

gPodder is a simple, free opensource software (licensed under GPLv3) to download free audio and video content (“podcasts”) from the Internet and watch it on your computer or on the go on your mobile or iPod. gPodder can support feeds from RSS, Atom and Youtube. gPodder is available in most Linux distributions, FreeBSD, Windows and on Maemo-based devices and supports iPod, MP3 player and mobile phones (e.g. Nokia N800 and N810). The user interfaces supported on gPodder are GTK+, Maemo 4, Maemo 5 and CLI.

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