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Graphite – 2D vector and raster editor

February 29, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews

Graphite is a vector and raster graphics program that’s powered by a node graph compositing engine. It brings together layers with nodes.

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XMPP

3 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based XMPP Clients

February 28, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

XMPP (also known as Jabber) is an open and free alternative to commercial messaging and chat providers. Web-based clients are featured.

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Speech

eSpeak NG – text-to-speech software

February 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

eSpeak NG (Next Generation) is a continuation of the eSpeak with more feedback from native speakers. It supports more than 100 languages and accents.

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Web Browsers

10 Best Free Graphical Web Browsers

February 28, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

A web browser is the quintessential desktop application. Everyone needs one, and there is not a desktop Linux distribution around that does not make a web browser available.

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Files

Index – Qt-based file manager

February 27, 2024 Steve Emms Android, Productivity, Reviews

Index is a Qt-based file manager that works on desktops, Android and Plasma Mobile.

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Groupware

9 Best Free and Open Source Groupware Software

February 27, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, Productivity, Roundup

Groupware software is designed to enable users to collaborate, regardless of location, via the internet or a corporate intranet.

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Web Browsers

ungoogled-chromium – Chromium without Google web services

February 23, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

ungoogled-chromium is a web browser with privacy in mind. It’s a variant of Chromium that aims to retain the experience of Chrome without the Google-specific web services.

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Intrusion Prevention - SSH

5 Best Free and Open Source Tools for SSH Intrusion Prevention

February 23, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

This article recommends open source software that employ different techniques to make it harder for a server running SSH to be compromised.

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OCR Tools

Machine Learning in Linux: ocrs – modern OCR engine

February 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

ocrs is a Rust library and CLI tool for extracting text from images, also known as OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

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Clipboard

Clipcat – clipboard manager written in Rust

February 21, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews

Clipcat is a clipboard manager which supports X11 and experimental support for Wayland. It uses a client-server architecture.

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Recording Studio

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Screencasting Software

February 21, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Software

A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, typically carrying audio narration. We recommend the best free and open source screencasting tools.

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OCR Tools

Machine Learning in Linux: EasyOCR – OCR that reads natural scene text and dense text in documents

February 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

EasyOCR is a Python module for extracting text from images.

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VoIP

5 Best Free and Open Source Tox Clients

February 18, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup

Tox is a peer-to-peer instant-messaging and video-calling protocol that offers end-to-end encryption. We recommend the finest Tox clients.

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Backup software

Emborg – Front-End to BorgBackup

February 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

Emborg is a simple command line utility to orchestrate backups. It is a front-end to Borg, powerful and fast de-duplicating backup software.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Bluetooth File Exchange

February 16, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Apple Bluetooth File Exchange is a utility to view the Public folder on the device, retrieve and send files from/to the device.

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OCR Tools

Machine Learning in Linux: Surya – multilingual document OCR toolkit adds text recognition

February 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

Surya is billed as a multilingual document OCR toolkit. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.

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Finance

Best Free and Open Source Software – Finance

February 15, 2024 Steve Emms Financial, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering finance software, bitcoin clients, econometrics, and other financial applications.

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Bitcoin

4 Best Free and Open Source Tools to Track Cryptocurrencies

February 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Financial, Roundup

We recommend tools that let you monitor cryptocurrencies.

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Speech

Machine Learning in Linux: TTS – deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech

February 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

Coqui TTS (TTS) is a library for advanced Text-to-Speech generation. It offers pretrained models in more than 1,100 different languages.

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Messaging

Delta Chat – messaging software that works with e-mail

February 13, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

Delta Chat is a chat app that sends messages via e-mails, encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt.

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