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App / Tool / Protocol / Format

Recommended / Deprecated / Alternative list

🔒: Not open source

VPN​

Other
  • OpenVPN
    • OpenVPN config is complex
Note

  • Use WireGuard if possible

  • Popularity of Support:

    WireGuard < OpenVPN < IPSec

Blog

Firewall​

  • OPNsense
    • pfSense fork
    • Great support
    • Active development
    • FreeBSD based
  • OpenWRT
    • For embedded devices
    • Linux based
Other

Shell​

Other
  • Bash
    • Almost all Linux distros have it
    • Not best, but must learn
  • fish
  • Zsh
  • Everything: Instant search the entire NTFS file system
Other
  • Windows Search

Git self-hosted service​

Other

Web Proxy​

Web Proxy

Network Tools​

Network​

  • Nmap: Host discovery
  • WireShark: GUI network traffic capture / analyzer
  • tcpdump: CLI network traffic capture / analyzer
  • iperf2: Network speed test
  • clumsy: Simulate network latency, delay, packet loss on Windows
  • netem: Simulate network latency, delay, packet loss on Linux

Text / Code Editor​

  • VS Code
  • ox: Terminal text editor
    • Lightweight
    • Single execute file
Other

Video Player​

Disk Tools​

  • dua: CLI disk usage
Other

Remote Control / Streaming​

  • 🔒 Remote Desktop (mstsc): Windows built-in remote control
  • FreeRDP: RDP client
  • Sunshine: Stream host for Moonlight
  • Moonlight: Stream client for Sunshine
Other

Terminal Workspace​

Terminal workspace / multiplexer

Other

Web Load Testing​

Web Server Stress Test

Not recommended