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* [Webmails](#webmails)
* [Wikis](#wikis)
* [Resources](#resources)
* [Blogs](#blogs)
* [Books](#books)
* [Editors](#editors)
* [Repositories](#repositories)
* [Websites](#websites)
* [Contributing](#contributing)
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* [git-annex assistant](http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/) - A synchronised folder on each of your OSX and Linux computers, Android devices, removable drives, NAS appliances, and cloud services.
* [ownCloud](http://owncloud.org) - Provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices.
* [Seafile](http://seafile.com) - Another Open Source Cloud Storage solution.
* [SparkleShare](http://sparkleshare.org/) - Provides cloud storage and file synchronization services. By default, it uses Git as a storage backend.
* [Swift](http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/) - A highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store.
* [Syncthing](http://syncthing.net/) - Open Source system for private, encrypted and authenticated distrobution of data.
## Collaborative Software
*Collaborative software or groupware suites.*
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* [Naemon](http://www.naemon.org/) - Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance enhancements and new features.
* [Observium](http://www.observium.org/) - SNMP monitoring for servers and networking devices. Runs on linux.
* [OMD](http://omdistro.org/) - OMD - The Open Monitoring Distribution.
* [OMD](http://omdistro.org/) - The Open Monitoring Distribution.
* [Opsview](http://www.opsview.com/solutions/core) - Based on Nagios 4, Opsview Core is ideal for small IT and test environments.
* [Riemann](http://riemann.io/) - Flexible and fast events processor allowing complex events/metrics analysis.
* [Sensu](http://sensuapp.org/) - Open source monitoring framework.
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* [Collectd](http://collectd.org/) - System statistic collection daemon.
* [Collectl](http://collectl.sourceforge.net/) - High precision system performance metrics collecting tool.
* [Dashing](http://dashing.io/) - Ruby gem that allows for rapid statistical dashboard development. An all HTML5 approach allows for big screen displays in data centers or conference rooms.
* [Diamond](https://github.com/BrightcoveOS/Diamond) - Python based statistic collection daemon.
* [Grafana](http://grafana.org/) - A Graphite & InfluxDB Dashboard and Graph Editor.
* [Ganglia](http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/) - High performance, scalable RRD based monitoring for grids and/or clusters of servers. Compatible with Graphite using a single collection process.
* [Graphite](http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) - Open source scaleable graphing server.
* [InfluxDB](http://influxdb.com/) - Open source distributed time series database with no external dependencies.
* [OpenTSDB](http://opentsdb.net/) - OpenTSDB - Store and server massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity.
* [OpenTSDB](http://opentsdb.net/) - Store and server massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity.
* [RRDtool](http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/) - Open source industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data.
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* [phpList](http://www.phplist.com/) - Newsletter manager written in PHP.
## NoSQL
*NoSQL servers.*
* [Cassandra](http://cassandra.apache.org/) - Distributed DBMS designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers.
* [CouchDB](http://couchdb.apache.org/) - Ease of use, with multi-master replication document-oriented database system.
* [MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.org/) - Another document-oriented database system.
* [Redis](http://redis.io/) - Networked, in-memory, key-value data store with optional durability.
* [RethinkDB](http://rethinkdb.com) - Built to store JSON documents, and scale to multiple machines with very little effort. It supports really useful queries like table joins and group by.
* [Riak](http://basho.com/riak/) - Another fault-tolerant key-value NoSQL database.
*NoSQL databases.*
* Column-Family
* [Apache HBase](http://hbase.apache.org/) - Hadoop database, a distributed, big data store.
* [Cassandra](http://cassandra.apache.org/) - Distributed DBMS designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers.
* Document Store
* [CouchDB](http://couchdb.apache.org/) - Ease of use, with multi-master replication document-oriented database system.
* [ElasticSearch](http://www.elasticsearch.org/) - Java based database, popular with log aggregation, and email archiving projects.
* [MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.org/) - Another document-oriented database system.
* [RavenDB](http://ravendb.net/) - Document based database with ACID/Transactional features.
* [RethinkDB](http://www.rethinkdb.com/) - Open source distributed document store database, focuses on JSON.
* [Neo4j](http://www.neo4j.org/) - Open source graph database.
* Key-Value
* [LevelDB](https://code.google.com/p/leveldb/) - Google's high performance key/value database.
* [Redis](http://redis.io/) - Networked, in-memory, key-value data store with optional durability.
* [Riak](http://basho.com/riak/) - Another fault-tolerant key-value NoSQL database.
Comparison of NoSQL servers: http://kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis
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* [Exim](http://www.exim.org/) - Message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge.
* [Haraka](http://haraka.github.io/) - A high-performance, pluginable SMTP server written in JavaScript.
* [MailCatcher](http://mailcatcher.me/) - Ruby gem that deploys a simply SMTP MTA gateway that accepts all mail and displays in web interface. Useful for debugging or development.
* [Maildrop](https://github.com/m242/maildrop) - Open Source disposable email SMTP server, also useful for development.
* [OpenSMTPD](https://opensmtpd.org/) - Secure SMTP server implementation from the OpenBSD project.
* [Postfix](http://www.postfix.org/) - Fast, easy to administer, and secure Sendmail replacement.
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* [ChiliProject](https://www.chiliproject.org) - Fork of Redmine.
* [GitLab](https://www.gitlab.com/) - Clone of GitHub written in ruby.
* [Gogs](http://gogs.io/) - Written in Go
* [Gogs](http://gogs.io/) - Written in Go.
* [Redmine](http://www.redmine.org/) - Written in ruby on rails.
* [The Bug Genie](http://www.thebuggenie.com/) - Written in PHP.
* [Trac](http://trac.edgewall.org/) - Written in python.
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* [Lighttpd](http://www.lighttpd.net/) - Web server more optimized for speed-critical environments.
* [Nginx](http://nginx.org/) - Reverse proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and web server.
* [uWSGI](https://github.com/unbit/uwsgi/) - The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services.
* [Varnish](https://www.varnish-cache.org/) - Very popular HTTP cache server.
*Web Performance*
* [HAProxy](http://www.haproxy.org/) - Software based load Balancing, SSL offloading and performance optimization, compression, and general web routing.
* [Varnish](https://www.varnish-cache.org/) - HTTP based web application accelerator focusing on optimizing caching and compression.
## Wikis
*Wiki software.*
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# Resources
Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your skills and knowledge.
## Blogs
* [Code as Craft](http://codeascraft.com/) - Etsy's Ops blog, logs of technical posts.
* [DevOpsGuys](http://blog.devopsguys.com/) - Devops consultants who blog about operations.
* [Rackspace Developers](http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/) - Slightly biased blog with lots of Devops Topics.
## Books
*Sysadmin related books.*
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* [Eclipse](http://eclipse.org/) - IDE written in Java with an extensible plug-in system.
* [Geany](http://www.geany.org/) - GTK2 text editor.
* [Haroopad](http://pad.haroopress.com/) - Markdown editor with live preview.
* [Lime](http://limetext.org/) - Aims to provide an open source solution to Sublime Text
* [Vim](http://vim.org) - A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient editing.
## Repositories
*Software package repositories.*
* [Dotdeb](http://www.dotdeb.org/) - Repository with LAMP updated packages for Debian.
* [Remi](http://rpms.famillecollet.com/) - Repository with LAMP updated packages for RHEL/Centos/Fedora.
## Websites
*Useful sysadmin related websites.*
* [Ops School](http://www.opsschool.org) - Comprehensive program that will help you learn to be an operations engineer.
* [Dotdeb](http://www.dotdeb.org/) - Repository with LAMP updated packages for Debian.
* [Remi](http://rpms.famillecollet.com/) - Repository with LAMP updated packages for RHEL/Centos/Fedora.
* [Digital Ocean Tutorials](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials) - A surprisingly vast resource for getting the basics of certain applications, tools, or even systems administration topics. (Note: Digital Ocean pays authors for this content)
# Contributing
Please see [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.
Francisco Augusto
11 years ago