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File Managers

Spacedrive – file manager powered by a virtual distributed filesystem

December 3, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews

Spacedrive is a file manager which seeks a different approach. It implements a VDFS (virtual distributed filesystem), a filesystem that works across multiple storage layers.

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Apple Pages

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Pages

December 2, 2023 Steve Emms Office, Software

Apple Pages is a proprietary wordprocessor that lets you create and edit documents. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software: November 2023 Updates

December 1, 2023 Steve Emms Software

November 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Human Resource Management

6 Best Free and Open Source Human Resource Management Software

November 30, 2023 Steve Emms Roundup, Web Apps

Human resource management is the planned and logical approach to the management of an organization’s most valuable assets – its human capital.

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Foreign Languages

Pot – text translation and recognize

November 29, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, Reviews

Pot is a cross-platform translator application that offers translation by selection and input.

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Asustor ADM 4.2

ASUSTOR Data Master 4.2 (ADM OS): Getting Started

November 27, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews

The first article in this series walks you through the steps of setting up ADM 4.2 for the first time.

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Monitor System

ttop – system monitoring tool

November 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

ttop is a system monitoring tool with historical snapshots and alerts. It has a top-like TUI. It’s written in Nim.

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Point of Sale

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Point-of-Sale Software

November 22, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

Linux has a good range of open source Point-of-Sale software which can help retailers make considerable cost savings, not simply due to the lack of licensing and upgrade fees.

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Intel NUC

Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: BIOS

November 20, 2023 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Let’s turn our attention to the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System). This is firmware used to start the PC system after it is powered on.

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dna-medical

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Medical Imaging Software

November 19, 2023 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Medical imaging is an essential, non-invasive, routine activity performed by radiographers and radiologic technologists.

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Wiki Engines

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Wiki Engines

November 18, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

A Wiki engine is a type of collaborative software that runs a wiki system. We recommend the finest open source engines.

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Remote Display

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Screen Sharing

November 17, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop, Software

Apple Screen Sharing allows you to remotely access an Apple desktop system environment. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Compositing Window Managers

7 Best Free and Open Source Compositing Window Managers

November 17, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop, Roundup, Utilities

A compositing window manager, or compositor, is a window manager that provides applications with an off-screen buffer for each window.

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dna-medical

6 Best Free and Open Source Linux Electronic Medical Records Software

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

This article focuses on software that provides Electronic Medical Records (EMR) functionality.

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Internet Radio

Raddiola – simple radio app

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Reviews

Raddiola is billed as a simple radio with a clear and concise interface. Here’s our verdict.

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OCR Tools

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Scan

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, Software

Adobe Scan provides a portable scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple files formats including PDF and JPEG.

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Intel NUC

Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Installing Manjaro

November 13, 2023 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series, we explore installing and configuring Manjaro on the NUC 13. Manjaro is an Arch-based Linux distribution.

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Google Alternatives

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google News

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Google News is a news aggregator service. It offers a continuous flow of links to articles from thousands of publishers and magazines.

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Database

7 Best Free and Open Source MongoDB GUIs

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

MongoDB is a high performance, open source, non-relational NoSQL database written in C++. It’s at the forefront of the NoSQL database management system movement.

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Images

libjxl – reference implementation of JPEG XL

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

JPEG XL is a royalty-free raster-graphics file format that supports both lossy and lossless compression.

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