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Apple Maps

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Maps

July 13, 2022 Steve Emms Software

Apple Maps is a web mapping service that’s available in over 200 regions around the world offering curated guides.

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YouTube

yt-dlp – fork of youtube-dl

July 11, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

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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Database

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Oracle Database

July 10, 2022 Steve Emms Office, Software

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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IDE

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Xcode

July 8, 2022 Steve Emms Programming, Software

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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System Administration

Essential System Tools: gWakeOnLAN – turn machines on through Wake On LAN

July 4, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

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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Email

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Exchange Server

July 1, 2022 Steve Emms Office, Software

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

Best Free and Open Source Software – June 2022 Updates

July 1, 2022 Steve Emms Software

June 2022 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Chess

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Chess

July 1, 2022 Steve Emms Games, Software

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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Animation

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Autodesk 3ds Max

June 29, 2022 Steve Emms Multimedia, Software

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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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Extension Manager – Browse, Install and Manage GNOME Shell Extensions

June 27, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Stories, Utilities

Extensions Manager is a small utility that lets browse and install GNOME extensions without using a web browser.

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Renderers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Dimension

June 25, 2022 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

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

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Visual Studio

June 24, 2022 Steve Emms Programming, Software

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Albania

Chafa – terminal graphics image viewer

June 22, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software

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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Education

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Classroom

June 20, 2022 Steve Emms Education, Software

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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Art

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Gboard

June 18, 2022 Steve Emms Android

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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Copenhagen

timg – Terminal Image and Video Viewer

June 17, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

timg is an image and video viewer with support for high resolution graphics in the terminal.

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DVDs

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel VideoStudio MyDVD

June 15, 2022 Steve Emms Multimedia, Software

Corel VideoStudio MyDVD is proprietary DVD authoring software. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Austria

viu – Terminal Image Viewer with Kitty Graphics Protocol support

June 13, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software

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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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Extend your Desktop – Part 22

June 8, 2022 Steve Emms Beginners, Software

We look at a couple of ways you can extend your GNOME desktop. We first cover extensions before moving on to exploring themes.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Skype

June 6, 2022 Steve Emms Multimedia, Software

Skype provides VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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