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Earth Science

18 Best Free and Open Source Linux Earth Science Software

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Earth science (also known as geoscience) is the focus of understanding the sciences related to the planet Earth. Here’s our recommended open source software.

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Data Science

OpenChrom – software for chromatography, spectrometry and spectroscopy

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

OpenChrom is software for chromatography, spectrometry and spectroscopy. Data from different systems can be imported and analyzed.

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GNOME Maps – find places around the world

May 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Maps gives you quick access to maps all across the world. It allows you to quickly find the place you’re looking for

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Typhoon is an elegant weather program

May 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Scientific

Typhoon is billed as a beautiful weather application. It provides real-time weather updates and forecasts in a highly configurable and colorful widget.

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VersaTiles – generate, process, store, serve, and render map tiles

May 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

VersaTiles provides an open, modular and high-performance alternative to proprietary solutions, offering full control over the map data pipeline.

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EDA

15 Best Free and Open Source Electronic Design Automation Tools

May 12, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is a type of software that enables individuals to design electronic systems.

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Organic Maps – offline map software

May 10, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Organic Maps is a privacy-focused offline maps & GPS app for hiking, cycling, biking, and driving

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Placemark is a web-based tool for geospatial data

May 9, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific, Web Apps

Placemark is a web application that lets you import, create, export, visualize, and publish geospatial data.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to MSN Weather

May 8, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

MSN Weather gets you the very latest weather forecast, including temperature, humidity, precipitation for your location. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Kadas Albireo is a mapping application based on QGIS

May 8, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Kadas Albireo is a mapping application based on QGIS and targeted at non-specialized users, providing enhanced functionalities

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Geology

Grock displays a geological map of the UK

May 8, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Grock is a GTK application to display geological maps of the UK, powered by libchamplain.

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Food and Drink Software

Gourmand Recipe Manager

May 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Gourmand is a fork of the Gourmet Recipe Manager: a manager, editor, and organizer for recipes.

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Data Science

nbcat previews Jupyter notebooks in the terminal

May 4, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

nbcat let you preview Jupyter notebooks directly in your terminal. Think of it as cat, but for .ipynb files.

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Boating software

OpenCPN is a ship-borne GUI navigation application

May 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

OpenCPN is a chartplotter and navigation tool. It’s designed to be used at the helm station of your boat while underway.

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Planet Earth

6 Best Free and Open Source Virtual Globes

May 4, 2025 Steve Emms Education, Graphics, Roundup, Scientific

There are a number of free and open source applications for Linux which are credible alternatives to Google Earth.

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Economics

6 Best Free and Open Source Econometric Software

April 30, 2025 Steve Emms Financial, Roundup, Scientific

Econometrics is the application of statistical or quantitative methods to understand economic issues and test theories, and models.

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Satellite Tool

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Satellite Tools

April 28, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

This roundup focuses on Linux software that let you track artificial satellites from your Linux terminal and desktop.

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Satellite Tool

SaVi simulates satellite orbits and coverage, in two and three dimensions

April 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

SaVi simulates satellite orbits and coverage, in two and three dimensions. SaVi lets you explore satellite constellations.

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Satellite Tool

SatIntel is a OSINT tool for satellite reconnaissance

April 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

SatIntel is a OSINT tool for satellite reconnaissance. The tool can extract satellite telemetry, receive orbital predictions, and parse TLEs.

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Satellite Tool

SatDump is generic satellite data processing software

April 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

SatDump is a generic satellite data processing software with both a CLI and GUI.

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