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3D Rendering

LuxCoreRender – rendering system

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

LuxCoreRender is an open source software rendering system for physically correct image synthesis. Based on state of the art algorithms.

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3D Rendering

Mitsuba – research-oriented rendering system

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Mitsuba is an extensible rendering framework written in portable C++. It implements unbiased as well as biased techniques.

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Static Site Generators

rock – static blog system

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

rock is a simple static blog system. It uses Kemal, a very simple web framework.

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Static Site Generators

Statocles – minimal web content management system

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Statocles is a minimal web content management system with a focus on easy editing with any plain text editor.

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Student Information Systems

ClaSS – student tracking, reporting and information management system

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Education

ClaSS is a comprehensive classroom information assistant and school management system. ClaSS extends the reach of traditional systems.

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Student Information Systems

RosarioSIS – Student Information System for School Management

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Education

Primarily designed for K-12 schools, RosarioSIS will easily fit for any educative institution like a university, an academy, or an institute.

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Student Information Systems

AlekSIS – Student Information System

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Education

AlekSIS is a web-based school information system to manage and/or publish organisational subjects of educational institutions.

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Student Information Systems

SchoolTool – web-based student information system

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Education

SchoolTool is an open source school management information system. It is a traditional web application, usable with a web browser.

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Student Information Systems

openSIS – student information system

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Education

openSIS is an open source student information system for public and non-public schools. The software rivals costly commercial alternatives.

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CPU

Ninja – small build system

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Ninja is a small build system (similar to make) with a focus on speed. Ninja is free and open source software.

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CPU

CMake – build system generator

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

CMake is a free and open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software.

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Circuit board

Fastfetch – fetch system information

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Fastfetch is a system information tool written in C. It aims to be a faster alternative to the hugely respected Neofetch tool.

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Circuit board

macchina – system information fetcher

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

macchina lets you view system information, like your kernel version, uptime, memory usage, processor load and much more.

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Circuit board

KInfoCenter – provides information about the user’s system

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

KInfoCenter is a utility by KDE that provides information about the user’s system. KInfoCenter is free and open source software.

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Circuit board

dmidecode – reports information about your system’s hardware

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

dmidecode reports information about your system’s hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard.

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Video Editors

LiVES – VJ and Video Editing system

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

LiVES is a Video Editing System. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet has many advanced features.

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SQL

Percona Toolkit – collection of advanced open source command-line tools

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Percona Toolkit (formerly Maatkit) provides essential command-line utilities for MySQL. Work more safely and quickly by relying on tested software

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Backup

Cedar Backup – manage system backups for a pool of local and remote machines

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Cedar Backup is a free and open source software package designed to manage system backups for a pool of local and remote machines.

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Backup

rsnapshot – filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

rsnapshot is an rsync-based filesystem snapshot utility. It can take incremental backups of local and remote filesystems for any number of machines.

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System administration

BIND – flexible and full-featured DNS system

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is a complete, highly portable implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol.

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