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Google Firebase

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Firebase

June 28, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Software

Google Firebase is a platform developed by Google for creating mobile and web applications. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Best Free and Open Source Software: May 2025 Updates

June 1, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Software

May 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Documentation

extundelete recovers deleted files from ext3 or ext4 partitions

May 23, 2025 Steve Emms Software

extundelete is designed to undelete files from an unmounted partition to a separate (mounted) partition.

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

DistroShelf is a GUI for Distrobox containers

May 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Software

DistroShelf is a graphical interface for managing Distrobox containers on Linux. It lets you create and manage containers.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Journal

May 20, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Windows Journal is a note-taking application that allows users to create and organize handwritten notes and drawings

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Document Management Systems

Typewriter – create documents with typst

May 7, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Typewriter lets you create documents with typst, a new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: April 2025 Updates

May 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

April 2025 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 Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Forms

April 29, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Microsoft Forms is a web-based application that lets you design and analyse online forms, surveys, quizzes, and polls.

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WebRTC

Galene is an easy to deploy videoconference server

April 24, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Galene (or Galène) is a videoconference server (an “SFU”) that is easy to deploy and that requires very moderate server resources.

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Best Free and Open Source Linux Software

April 18, 2025 Steve Emms Software

This is the largest collection of software recommendations. The collection includes hundreds of articles, with comprehensive sections on internet, graphics, games, programming, science, office, utilities, and more.

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Google Analytics

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Analytics

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Google Analytics is an exceptional platform for both website and mobile app analytics. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Best Free and Open Source Software: March 2025 Updates

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

March 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Find

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dd

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to dd, a popular utility to convert and copy a file.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: man

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

A Linux system comes with a whole collection of system reference manuals (known as man pages). There’s a man page for each command or program.

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Terminal Session Recording

ttyd shares your terminal over the web

March 29, 2025 Steve Emms Software

ttyd is a simple command-line tool for sharing terminal over the web.

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Find

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: find

March 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to find.

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Radio

rtl-dab is a DAB receiver

March 24, 2025 Steve Emms Software

rtl-dab is a DAB/DAB+ receiver to use with rtl-sdr sticks.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: February 2025 Updates

February 28, 2025 Steve Emms Software

February 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Asynchronous Lint Engine

February 23, 2025 Steve Emms Software

ALE (Asynchronous Lint Engine) is a plugin providing linting (syntax checking and semantic errors) in NeoVim 0.6.0+ and Vim 8.0+.

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Business Intelligence

Gephi – Open Graph Viz Platform

February 21, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Gephi is visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Like Photoshop but for graph data.

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