Sysadmin Open Source Landscape
Idea
I decided to take up a small side project. That is the reason why I didn’t write new blog posts in last month or two. (No I didn’t run out of topics to talk about 
) The idea of a project came out of all those questions on the web, where people ask what kind of open source software exist for this or that. So, I decided to aggregate most of the sysadmin related open source projects on a single website.
The look
I wanted to make it look like a landscape page, so I can fit everything on one page. For it’s base I took kahun’s awesome-sysadmin github project, which I want to expand. I think the list there is still incomplete and I hope people will rather contribute if they see something that’s appealing for eyes. Of course all my data will be pushed back to kahun once I have more projects submitted, to support kahun’s work. Whole website looks like groups of specific types of software, with icons. You can find the topic and then see which open source projects exist, that actually cover that topic. It is a pilot project and if sysadmins don’t show enough interest in it, I will not continue to support it. This is made from sysadmin for sysadmins. Website is totally uncommercial. No ads will be there and I will try to keep it as small and quality as possible. Only good and active projects get to have a spot there. I don’t think there is so many worth mentioning projects out there to make it bloaty anyway.
Website
Feel free to visit the website at http://sysadmin.it-landscape.info and contribute to it. (Just click on that + sign and enter a project you think should be there.) You can also bookmark it, or forward it to your sysadmin friend, that mainly uses proprietary products, maybe he or she will find something useful.
Thanks for any feedback in advance.
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Whooo thanks a lot awesome collection.
I’m really glad if it helped you.
Thanks so much for this – I’ll be referencing this a lot!
Thanks a lot. I really appreciate it. I’ll try to keep it up to date as much as possible.
Hi Alen,
@Topic Backup obnam seems to be obsolete, instead you could place urbackup (and perhabs several others) as new…Thanks for the job!
Hello Chri.s,
the website is undergoing major change and I will try to simplify the interface as well as do some cleanup of projects that are obsolete and add quite a few new ones. I only ask for patience since this takes my spare time, but currently I have other priorities, like certifications etc, so there is little time for it, but I promise I will get it done asap.
Great job! I’ve just added Lan Management System (https://github.com/lmsgit/lms) to the list. It is very popular among Polish ISP and may also be useful to someone else.
Hello Maciej, I noticed you added it, yes. Thank you. I will include it in next update. Sidenote: In future i’d like to ask you to put in shorter description though…
Very nice interface. Is it open source? Is the code available? I would love to use it to create similar websites with differente type of information (not sysadmin related).
Can I suggest a feature : printable version?
Hey David, did you notice those 3 buttons on top? They switch modes of website… There is also text mode available which is kinda printable. Is this good enough or would you recommend any change to it?
This is very good. I am impressed by the design and the usefulness.
Thank you! I did new design though and it will be live this week probably.
Hi Al,
great job! Would mind add contact form to site to send you links for useful tools to add to the list.
Could you add wireguard (https://www.wireguard.com/) as VPN .thanks
For sure I will add it.
You can add/suggest projects by pressing + on the sysadmin landscape website, mext to the specific category. They are not automatically approved and shown, but they will be added to new website as soon as I finish it. I am still having a bit issues with UX… working on it though.