Sysadmin Tool list

My organization previously used Sunbelt Software for Anti-Virus so I still get emails from them from time to time about their various offerings.  This list did strike me as interesting though.  It is a list of 40 "System Admin tools". I say it in quotes because several of them are ok in most situations, but it is interesting the value/non-value of free tools.  For instance 7zip, I love it.  Great program and I use it on almost every system I run.  I found out the hard way that it is not infallible, I was trying to untar and .img file to burn to usb using dd, and the file repeatedly failed, I re-downloaded it and same story.  Turns out 7zip doesn't handle files larger than 4gigs very well, Winrar or tar on a linux system and it worked fine.  Moral of the story sometimes you get what you pay for.

Anyway give them a look, the marketing department only placed one Sunbelt Software tool on the list so it actually (barely) passes the bullshit marketing test.


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