software

(mostly open-source) software tools & utilities I use and love

Useful software tools & utilities

General Command/Terminal

• BASH (Bourne-Again Shell) - powerful universal default
• Tmux - terminal multiplexer, allowing a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session.
• Terminator - GUI terminal with ability to run multiple terminal sessions inside single window in a grid or tab arrangement. keyboard shortcuts, simultaneous typing, extensible through plugins

System/Utilities

Command-Line/Terminal

• Ansible - cross-platform automation & configuration management "swiss-army knife" (highly adaptable & versatile multi-tool)

GUI/Desktop

Desktop Environments

• XFCE - lightweight, rock-solid, customizable, familiar
• elementaryOS - "a fast and open replacement for Windows and macOS" - great UI/UX with sane defaults, Ubuntu base
• MATE - fast, user-friendly, tweakable
• KDE - highly customizable modern desktop environment

Applications

• Albert - application launcher (keyboard-shortcut)
• Meld - detailed diff viewer for files and entire directories

Editors

Favorite Text/Code Editors

• Vim - universal supported & full-featured editor
• Sublime Text - simple, fast, extensible
• VS Code - customizable editor/IDE hybrid

Runner Ups:

• Geany
• Atom
• Nano

Operations

Monitoring & Reporting

Log Analysis & Review

Backup & Recovery

Security & Hardening

Database

Development

Python

Shell/Bash

NodeJS

PHP

Go

DevOps

Automation

• Ansible

Configuration Management

• Ansible

Continuous Integration

• Jenkins
• Ansible
• Git hooks

Continous Deployment

• Jenkins
• Ansible
• Git hooks

Orchestration

• Kubernetes

Cloud & Server

Virtualization

Containerization

Load Balancing

• Docker