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Best Free and Open Source Social Networking Software

Mastodon – open-source social network server based on ActivityPub

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Mastodon is a self-hosted social networking service. It allows anyone to host their own server node in the network.

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Deep Learning

Theano – numerical computation library for Python

November 10, 2023 Eilidih Parris Scientific

Theano is a numerical Python library that allows you to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions.

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Mobile App Development

Appcelerator Titanium Platform – integrated development environment

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Appcelerator Titanium is a platform for developing mobile, tablet and desktop applications using web technologies.

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Mobile App Development

Solar2D – cross-platform software development kit

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Solar2D is a Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage.

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Data Science

Cython – Optimising Static Compiler for Python

November 10, 2023 Eilidih Parris Scientific

Cython is an optimising static compiler. This means that it can compile normal Python code without changes (with a few exceptions).

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VGrive – Google Drive client

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

VGrive is a client (back-end and front-end) for Google Drive.

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GoSync – Python based Google Drive client

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

GoSync is a Google Drive client for Linux written in the Python language. It syncs everything from the drive.

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Rclone – command line program to sync files and directories

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from Google Drive, Amazon S3, Openstack Swift / Rackspace cloud files.

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Music

Kodi – entertainment center software

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Kodi (formerly XBMC) is an award-winning, free and open source digital media hub and HTPC (Home theater PC) software.

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Eye Care Software

f.lux – care for your eyes

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

f.lux makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

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Big Data

HyperDex – key-value and document store

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet

HyperDex is a distributed, searchable, and consistent key-value store. HyperDex Warp combines NoSQL performance with ACID transactions.

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Calendar

Lightning Calendar – organize your life — it’s about time

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Lightning is an extension that adds calendar functionality to Thunderbird. Create your own calendars, subscribe to calendars, and manage your own schedule.

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Encrypted Files

Cryptomator – multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of files in the cloud

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Cryptomator encrypts your data quickly and easily, so you can safely upload it to your favourite cloud service.

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Text Editor

ne – text editor

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

ne is a full screen open source text editor. It is intended to be an easier to learn alternative to vi, yet still portable across POSIX-compliant OS.

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Text Editor

Textadept – text editor software

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Version also available for the terminal.

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Text Editor

nano – text editor

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

nano is a curses-based text editor. It is a clone of Pico, the editor of the Pine email client.

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Text Editor

Vim – highly configurable text editor

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the editor ‘Vi’, with a more complete feature set.

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Log Analyzers

MultiTail – monitor logfiles and command output in multiple windows

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The application is optimized for terminal-sessions through slow links.

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Log Analyzers

gnome-logs – view and search logs with this graphical utility

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

gnome-logs is a graphical viewer for the systemd journal.

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Log Analyzers

glogg – Qt graphical log explorer

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

glogg is a free cross-platform (Linux, macOS and Windows) GUI application to browse and search through long or advanced log files.

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