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CNC Software

gSender – connect to and control Grbl-based CNCs

April 27, 2024 Steve Emms Scientific

gSender is a feature-packed CNC interface application.

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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Working With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS – Software

April 27, 2024 Steve Emms Beginners, Distro

This is a live blog looking at issues installing software in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

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3D Rendering

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Renderers

April 26, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

We recommend awesome free and open source software for rendering.

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System Administration

Linux Assistant – tool to help you master Linux system administration

April 26, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software, Utilities

Linux Assistant is a helper tool that aims to guide you through your daily Linux usage. It performs a variety of system tasks.

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3D Illustration

11 Best Free and Open Source Ray Tracing Software

April 26, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

Ray tracing is a technique for modeling light transport for use in a wide variety of rendering algorithms for generating digital images.

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3d render

MiniLight – minimal global illumination renderer

April 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

MiniLight is a command-line minimal global illumination renderer. It reads a simple text model file and writes a PPM image file.

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Web Content Management Systems

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Blogger

April 25, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Blogger is an online content management system which enables its users to write blog with time-stamped entries. The service is owned by Google. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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3D Illustration

Embree – high-performance ray tracing library

April 25, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

Embree is a high-performance ray tracing library. It contains ray tracing kernels optimized for the latest x86 processors

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Backup

Foxclone – image backup, restore and clone tool

April 25, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

Foxclone is a Linux based image backup, restore and clone tool using a simple point and click interface.

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3d render

Malt – fully customizable real-time rendering framework

April 25, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

Malt is a fully customizable real-time rendering framework for animation and illustration.

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Digital Audio Workstations

10 Best Free and Open Source Digital Audio Workstations

April 25, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for recording, editing and producing audio files.

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SSD

FSArchiver – disk cloning utility

April 24, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

FSArchiver is a system tool that allows you to save the contents of a filesystem to a compressed archive file.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Fantascene – dynamic wallpaper

April 23, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews

Fantascene is a wallpaper changer. But it’s not a bog standard changer. It plays video wallpapers on your background.

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Interactive Whiteboard

8 Best Free and Open Interactive Whiteboard Software

April 20, 2024 Steve Emms Education, Roundup

An interactive whiteboard is an instructional tool consisting of a large interactive display in the form factor of a whiteboard.

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API

8 Best Free and Open Source API Documentation Browsers

April 20, 2024 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

Software developers need all the help possible. One useful tool is a documentation browser. In fact, they can sometimes be a life changer.

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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Installing and Configuring EndeavourOS

April 19, 2024 Steve Emms Distro, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series, we explore installing and configuring EndeavourOS.

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Adobe Photoshop

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Photoshop Express

April 19, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Adobe Photoshop Express is a mobile app made for all-in-one photo editing and sharing. We recommend FOSS alternatives.

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Audio

5 Best Free and Open Source Audio Samplers

April 18, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A sampler is an electronic or digital musical instrument which uses sound recordings (or “samples”) of real instrument sounds.

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Backup software

Grsync – graphical user interface for rsync

April 18, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Grsync is a graphical frontend for rsync. This GTK tool is designed to provide the most commonly used rsync options.

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Task Manager

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Tasks

April 17, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Google Tasks is a task management application included with Google Workspace. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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