The Linux Compendium
Elasticsearch is an open-source search engine based on Lucene, developed in Java. It provides a distributed and multitenant full-text search engine with an HTTP Dashboard web interface (Kibana). The data is queried, retrieved, and stored in JSON. Elasticsearch is a scalable search engine that can search for all kinds of text documents, including log files. … Read more
Yarn is a JavaScript package manager. It is a popular tool used by web developers to manage the dependencies of their projects. Package managers are used to manage the dependencies of a project. They can be used to install, update, and uninstall packages. They usually use a repository of packages. This repository can be local … Read more
RainLoop is a free, open-source web-mail client for the desktop that integrates a talk-to-text service. It is designed to work as an interface to regular IM programs like AOL and Windows Live Messenger. RainLoop is a web-based application that can be run with most browsers and it takes only a few seconds to start up. … Read more
Python is a programming language that was developed with one goal in mind: It should make it easy for everyone, regardless of their knowledge and experience in computer science. This innovative code system, developed by Guido van Rossum over 30 years ago and still evolving today under his watchful eye (but never too much), allows … Read more
PgAdmin is an open-source administration tool for Postgres databases. It has a graphical user interface written with the Qt application framework and uses libpq as its backend driver to communicate with the database server. It can be used to manage local or remote PostgreSQL servers, create new databases, execute SQL queries and scripts against those … Read more
FFmpeg is open-source and cross-platform that handles a variety of multimedia files. It holds several audio and video libraries such as libavdevice, libavformat, libswscale, and many more. It is an easy stream analyzer for multimedia. Besides being a popular developer tool, it offers a powerful command-line interface for multimedia tasks. This free computer software was … Read more
Dotclear CMS is open-source software that allows you to create a simple, powerful, and easy-to-maintain blog. It offers an intuitive interface for managing content from multiple categories in your blog. It was initially designed for running blogs but now includes support for photo galleries, polls, calendars and other features as well as extensive plugin architecture … Read more
Cockpit is a server administration tool. Its main purpose is to replace the standard administration GUI of a web hosting company and enable remote administration. It offers methods not normally available in the Control Panel software, such as access to HTTP requests. With these advanced methods, it is ideal for server-side tasks such as setting … Read more
Ansible is an open-source software platform for configuring and managing computers. It combines multi-node software deployment, ad hoc task execution, and configuration management. Ansible works over SSH and requires no software or daemons to be installed on remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language; Node.js is currently the most popular choice. Ansible … Read more
What is an SSL certificate? SSL certificate is a digital certificate that validates the identity of a website and establishes an encrypted connection. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a security protocol that allows encrypted communication between web server and client. Organizations add SSL certificates to their websites to keep online transactions secure and their customer’s … Read more