Notes is a notetaking app designed to jot down quick thoughts or to save longer notes filled with checklists, images, web links, scanned documents, handwritten notes, or sketches. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Slides
Google Slides lets you create pitch decks, project presentations, training modules, and more. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Maps
Apple Maps is a web mapping service that’s available in over 200 regions around the world offering curated guides.
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yt-dlp – fork of youtube-dl
yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl that’s under active development. It focuses on adding new features and patches and maintaining compatibility.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Oracle Database
Oracle Database is a multi-model database management system often used for running online transaction processing, data warehousing and mixed database workloads.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Xcode
Xcode provides developers a unified workflow for user interface design, coding, testing, and debugging. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Essential System Tools: gWakeOnLAN – turn machines on through Wake On LAN
gWakeOnLAN is a small utility that lets you wake up machines using the Wake on LAN (WOL) feature. WOL lets you wake a computer from a low-power state.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Exchange Server
Microsoft Exchange Server is a mail server and calendaring server. It is proprietary software that’s not available for Linux. We recommend the following free and open source alternatives.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – June 2022 Updates
June 2022 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Chess
Apple Chess is a traditional chess game played on a well rendered board with a set of realistic 3-D pieces. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk 3ds Max
Autodesk 3ds Max is a professional 3D computer graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Excellent Utilities: Extension Manager – Browse, Install and Manage GNOME Shell Extensions
Extensions Manager is a small utility that lets browse and install GNOME extensions without using a web browser.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Dimension
Adobe Dimension is a 3D rendering and design software. It’s designed to build brand visualizations, illustrations, product mockups and other creative work.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Chafa – terminal graphics image viewer
This review looks at a terminal-based image viewer that supports the Kitty Graphics Protocol. It’s named Chafa, shorthand for Character Art Facsimile.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Classroom
Google Classroom is a learning platform for educational institutions that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Gboard
Gboard is a virtual keyboard app developed by Google for Android and iOS devices. We recommend free and open source alternatives.
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timg – Terminal Image and Video Viewer
timg is an image and video viewer with support for high resolution graphics in the terminal.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel VideoStudio MyDVD
Corel VideoStudio MyDVD is proprietary DVD authoring software. What are the best free and open source alternatives?
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viu – Terminal Image Viewer with Kitty Graphics Protocol support
viu is different from the vast majority of image viewers. It’s a small command-line program to view images from the terminal.
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