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Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2024 Updates

February 1, 2024 Steve Emms Software

January 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Best Free Window Managers

LeftWM – window manager for adventurers

February 1, 2024 Steve Emms Software

LeftWM is designed to do one thing and to do that one thing well: be a window manager.

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ONLYOFFICE Docs 8.0

Meet ONLYOFFICE Docs v8.0: fillable PDF forms, RTL support, updated ChatGPT plugin and more

January 31, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

A first major release in 2024 of ONLYOFFICE Docs with a bunch of new features.

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Yazi – terminal file manager

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Yazi is billed as a blazingly fast TUI file manager with asynchronous support. It’s written in Rust.

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Apple Numbers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Numbers

January 26, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

Apple Numbers is a spreadsheet application which uses a free-form “canvas” approach. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Synology Hyper Backup Explorer – desktop tool

January 13, 2024 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews, Software

Hyper Backup Explorer is a desktop tool for browsing, decrypting, and extracting different versions of backup data in Hyper Backup repositories.

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Adobe InCopy

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe InCopy

January 12, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

Adobe InCopy is a fully-fledged word processor that enables you to put together standalone text documents. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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PDF

QPDF – command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files

January 9, 2024 Steve Emms Software

QPDF is a C++ library and set of programs that inspect and manipulate the structure of PDF files.

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Spreadsheets

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Sheets

January 7, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

Google Sheets is a spreadsheet program included as part of the free, proprietary Google Docs Editors suite. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Adobe Lightroom

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Lightroom Classic

January 5, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Adobe Lightroom Classic is a creative image organization and image manipulation software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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