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Configuring music

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Audio MIDI Setup

February 10, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Software

Audio MIDI Setup is a utility to describe the configuration of your MIDI devices. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Recording Studio

Blue Recorder – simple screen recorder written in Rust

February 9, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Blue Recorder is billed as a simple desktop recorder for Linux systems. It’s built using GTK4 and FFmpeg.

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Compositing Window Managers

13 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Wayland Compositors

February 9, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on tiling Wayland compositors. We only feature free and open source software in this roundup.

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Think outside the box

explainshell – match command-line arguments to their help text

February 7, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

explainshell is a tool (with a web interface) which parses man pages, extracts options and explains a given command-line by matching each argument to the relevant help text in the man page.

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Tiling Window Managers

9 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Window Managers

February 7, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

There are a few different types of window managers. This article recommends the best tiling window managers.

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Task Manager

Dooit – TUI to-do manager

February 6, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Reviews, Software

Dooit is billed as a todo manager that you didn’t ask for, but needed. It’s free and open source software written in Python.

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Download manager

Lux – download library and CLI tool

February 5, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

Lux is an open source downloader. It supports sites such as YouTube, Tumblr, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and more.

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CRM

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux CRM Software

February 3, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

The purpose of this article is to focus on software which helps to improve the level of service provided by a firm to its customers, as well as to maximise the organisation’s profitability.

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Task Manager

Aion-Task – cyclic TODO task manager

February 2, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Software

Aion-Task is a free and open source cyclic TODO task manager.

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2024 Updates

February 1, 2024 Steve Emms Software

January 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Dynamic Window Managers

7 Best Free and Open Source Dynamic Window Managers

February 1, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

A dynamic window manager is a tiling window manager where windows are tiled based on preset layouts between which the user can switch.

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Backup software

borgmatic – Python-based wrapper for Borg Backup

January 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

borgmatic is simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations

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Best Free and Open Source Social Networking Software

Unleashing the Best Free and Open Source Social Networking Software

January 31, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Here’s the finest free and open source software for social networking.

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ONLYOFFICE Docs 8.0

Meet ONLYOFFICE Docs v8.0: fillable PDF forms, RTL support, updated ChatGPT plugin and more

January 31, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

A first major release in 2024 of ONLYOFFICE Docs with a bunch of new features.

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Best Free and Open Source HTML Editors

7 Best Free and Open Source HTML Editors

January 29, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

An HTML editor is computer software for creating web pages.

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ERP

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux ERP Software

January 27, 2024 Steve Emms Roundup, Web Apps

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) manages the information and functions of a business. We recommend the best free ERPs.

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Files

Yazi – terminal file manager

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Yazi is billed as a blazingly fast TUI file manager with asynchronous support. It’s written in Rust.

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Apple Numbers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Numbers

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

Apple Numbers is a spreadsheet application which uses a free-form “canvas” approach. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Video Editing

ClipGrab – downloader for YouTube and other sites

January 25, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

ClipGrab is billed as a fast Qt-based standalone tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other streaming websites.

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Video

8 Best Free and Open Source Frontends for mpv

January 25, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

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