Features
Go Find It
An indexing search engine with Nutch and Solr
Build you own search engine using Apache's Nutch web crawler and Solr search platform.
Days of Thunder
ASCII weather app for the terminal
Other applications have found less complex ways of showing the weather in a terminal, but none is as attractive as Wego.
Fine-tuned
Optimize flash memory in Linux
Solid state drives make everything run faster and more smoothly, but you can squeeze out even more performance with some practical optimization steps.
Signs of Life at the Office
Test LibreOffice automatically
Companies that depend on LibreOffice have a reason to wonder whether the office suite is working on all systems. You can use Python and the LibreOffice API to check.
Reloaded
Automatically restore firewall filter rules
The Linux iptables packet filter lacks an easy way to load rules automatically after restarting a system, but you can automate this process several ways.
Hidden
Encryption with VeraCrypt
The VeraCrypt encryption software comes with a handy graphical interface, and the ability to hide a container in an encrypted volume adds a unique professional feature: plausibly deniable encryption.
Oh, Snap!
Restore Btrfs files at the push of a button with Snapper
Thanks to Btrfs snapshots, Snapper lets you restore a system to a previous state in case of failure.
Embedded
Storing metadata in files
With the Python XMP Toolkit, programmers can develop applications that store metadata in files.
Magic Act
Access your servers securely with a Magic URL
With a highly secure Linux server, you don't need a fixed IP address to connect over a cellphone network from anywhere on the planet if you have a Magic URL.
Steady Hand
Keep watch over your server system with Webmin
Every leading Linux distribution offers some kind of built-in GUI management tool, but the world still has room for a flexible, distribution-independent tool like Webmin.
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