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OCR Tools

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Scan

November 15, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, Software

Adobe Scan provides a portable scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple files formats including PDF and JPEG.

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Game Tools

Nexuiz – open-source first person shooter

November 14, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Nexuiz is a free open-source first person shooter. Nexuiz is a fast-paced 3D deathmatch game with high-end and complex graphics effects.

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Game Tools

Full Metal Soccer – crazy football game

November 14, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Full Metal Soccer is a blend of first person shooter and sports game. It is a fast-paced multiplayer game in which two tank soccer teams battle each other.

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Retro

Atari800 – Atari 8-bit computer systems and 5200 game console emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Atari800 is an Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 emulator with various extensions (320kB RAM, stereo sound and more).

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File Managers

Krusader – twin panel file management software

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Krusader is an advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE and other desktops, similar to Midnight Commander or Total Commander.

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IDE

Geany – fast and lightweight IDE

November 11, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment (IDE) based on Scintilla.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google News

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Google News is a news aggregator service. It offers a continuous flow of links to articles from thousands of publishers and magazines.

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Search

Recoll – desktop full-text search tool

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Recoll is a personal full text search tool. It is a full text search application. Full text search applications let you find your data by content rather than by external attributes (like a file name).

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Application Servers

yahns – Sleepy, multi-threaded, non-blocking application server for Ruby

November 7, 2023 Eilidih Parris Software, Web Apps

yahns is a multi-threaded, non-blocking network application server designed for low _idle_ power consumption.

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Image Viewers

feh – image viewer aimed mostly at console users

November 6, 2023 Steve Emms Software

feh is an open source mode-based image viewer and cataloger. It is especially aimed at command line users who need a fast image viewer.

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Security

OPNsense – FreeBSD-based firewall and routing software

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Software

OPNsense is an open source, easy-to-use and easy-to-build HardenedBSD based firewall and routing platform.

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Photo Management

KPhotoAlbum – image software

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

KPhotoAlbum is software for viewing and organising images. It lets you index, search, group and view images by keywords, date, locations and persons.

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Animation

enve – 2D animation software

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Software

enve is 2D animation software. You can use enve to create vector animations, raster animations, and even use sound and video files.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Digital Color Meter

November 3, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Digital Color Meter lets you find the color value of a color on your screen. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software October 2023 Updates

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms Software

October 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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ERP

iDempiere – Business Suite ERP/CRM/SCM

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Besides ERP, CRM and SCM functionality, iDempiere also offers financial performance analysis, integrated Point of sale (POS) solution, and an integrated web store.

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Task Manager

Endeavour – personal task manager for GNOME

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Endeavour is an intuitive and powerful application to manage your personal tasks.

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Static Site Generators

Kotao – simple static site generator

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Kotao is a simple static site generator built in Kotlin.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: eza – replacement for ls

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

eza is a modern, maintained replacement for ls, built on exa. It has some new features such as hyperlink support.

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CPU

Machine Learning in Linux: Terminal GPT – ChatGPT 3.5 with no API keys

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, Software

Terminal GPT (tgpt) is a cross-platform command-line interface (CLI) tool that allows you to use ChatGPT 3.5 in your terminal without needing API keys.

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