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\Bluelatex vs smartmontools

A side-by-side look at \Bluelatex and smartmontools. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

\Bluelatex

\Bluelatex

Office & Productivity

Bluelatex is a TeX typesetting engine designed to generate high quality PDF documents. It is based on pdfTeX and has enhanced capability to handle complex documents with lots of images, fonts, metadata, etc.

texlatextypesettingpdf
smartmontools

smartmontools

System & Hardware

smartmontools is a set of open source utilities that monitor the health of disk drives and predict drive failures, compatible with most types of hard drives. It reads SMART data to detect and report on various drive attributes related to reliability, such as reallocated sectors count.

smartdisk-healthdrive-monitoringhardware-diagnosticsreliability-prediction