Linux Software

• Links NetManSoftware , SecuritySoftware , OpenSourceSoftware , Linux/BootSpeedup, https://mender.io/

• Get rid of Ubuntu snap and loop mounts

  sudo apt purge snapd ubuntu-core-launcher squashfs-tools

• Get rid of Gnome file indexer

  sudo apt remove tracker tracker-extract tracker-miner-fs

• Fun software

  • sl - train on console when you type ls wrong.

  • forture - forture cookies

• Software to install on a new machine. 2016

  • vim-gtk - text editor (atom for more editing with vim module)

  • firehol - flexible firewall supporting IPv6

  • mosh - remote terminal that can change ip

  • screen - remote screen

  • gobi-loader - 3g modem firmware loader - ID 0bdb:193e

  • dnsmasq - Local dns proxy and dhcp server

  • terminology - xterm

  • terminator - xterm gnome multi tab

• Security

  • firehol - flexible firewall supporting IPv6 Firewall/Rules

  • /etc/hosts - file blocking malicious sites. http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/

  • xca - Gui Certificate creation and management, local db.

  • VPN

    • OpenVpn - certificate or psk, tun or tap

    • WireGuard - New, easy, fast, as of 201809 not yet in the mainline Linux kernel

• Network tools

  • dublin-traceroute - https://dublin-traceroute.net/README.md

  • wireshark - sniffer

  • etherape - visual display of traffic

  • cdpr - Cisco Discovery Protocol reporter

  • lldpd - CDP + LLDP $ lldpcli show stat

  • iperf -

  • ipcalc - calculates IPv4 subnets and masks on command line.

  • hostapd - WPA2/EAP Authenticator 802.1x

  • Sync data

    • woof - command line http upload download -U allow upload

    • rsync - sync directories, by only moving differences

    • syncthing - supports mobile and windows, similar to resilio, Dropbox, google-drive but on own infrastructure

    • rclone - sync google drive or other cloud services

• Editor - code
  • vscode - clear winner
• Editor - images
  • showfoto
  • diodon - clipboard with menu
• Email
  • HIRI - commercial
  • thunderbird
  • mutt - terminal
• Virtual
  • virt-manager
  • qemu-kvm
  • docker.io
• Hacking etc.

  • iodine - tunnel IPv4 through a DNS server.

• Video

  • OpenShot - Used to rotate half of a video clip, worked great.

• Repo's not in Ubuntu
  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom

  • sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fingerprint/fingerprint-gui && sudo apt-get update

    • sudo apt-get install libbsapi policykit-1-fingerprint-gui fingerprint-gui

  • Clone https://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt

  • Google Cloud SDK

    • https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/quickstart-debian-ubuntu

• sudo apt install virt-manager ocker.io wireshark etherape screen ipcalc mosh terminology atom firehol cdpr iperf qemu-kvm git vagrant aptitude htop synaptic vim-gtk diodon p7zip-full awscli terminator
• File management
  • fslint - find duplicates in filesystem
• Chat - Server

  • https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip

Tips

• /tmp on [https://blog.ubuntu.com/2016/01/20/data-driven-analysis-tmp-on-tmpfs|tmpfs]

  echo "tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

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