December 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2023
We’ve trawled through our statistics and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2023.
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Celeste – GUI file synchronization client
Celeste is a GUI file synchronization client that can connect to virtually any cloud provider.
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JetUML – create and edit UML diagrams
JetUML is a lightweight desktop application for interactively creating and editing diagrams in the Unified Modeling Language.
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gopeed – modern download manager
Gopeed is billed as a modern download manager. It supports HTTP, BitTorrent and Magnet protocol download. It’s written in Dart and Go.
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Motrix – full-featured download manager
Motrix is billed as a full-featured download manager. It’s written mostly in JavaScript and offers cross-platform support.
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DbGate – database manager for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
DbGate is a cross-platform database manager. It’s designed to be simple to use and effective, when working with more databases simultaneously.
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Fluentd – Unified Logging Layer
Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and so on.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: November 2023 Updates
November 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Open HRMS – HR management software
Open HRMS is an open source HR Management software that envisions building a happier workforce.
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kew – command-line music player
kew is a music player with gapless playback. It’s written in C and published under an open source license. It was previously called cue. I review the latest release.
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tap v0.4.11 – terminal-based music player
tap is a terminal-based music player that lets you jump to any album with fuzzy-finder shortcuts. Here’s my take on v0.4.11.
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OSPOS – POS software for retailers
Open Source Point of Sale (OSPOS) is a web-based point of sale system. It runs on top of a LAMP server.
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screencast – interface to record a X11 desktop
screencast is a command line interface to record a X11 desktop using FFmpeg, having support for offline recording and live streaming.
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ffscreencast – shell wrapper for ffmpeg
ffscreencast is a shell wrapper for ffmpeg that allows fool-proof screen recording via the command line.
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Harlan – language for GPU computing
Harlan is a declarative, domain specific language for programming GPUs. It serves as a testbed for implementation and optimization techniques.
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Ceylon – language for writing large programs in teams
Ceylon is an open source language for writing large programs in teams that is influenced by Java. It is a “higher-order” language.
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Go – programming language
Go is a programming environment that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. It is a statically typed, compiled language.
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Elixir – dynamic, functional language
Elixir is a functional, concurrent, general-purpose, open source meta-programming aware language built on top of the Erlang Virtual Machine (BEAM).
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OpenCL – Open Computing Language
OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a multi-vendor open standard for general-purpose parallel programming of heterogeneous systems.
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