missingno provides a small toolset of flexible and easy-to-use missing data visualizations and utilities that allows you to get a quick visual summary of the completeness (or lack thereof) of your dataset. Features include: Data-dense display which lets you quickly
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Grok – Web Framework Based on Zope Toolkit Technology
Grok is an open source web application framework that lets you create flexible, agile web applications. Based on Zope Toolkit technology, the framework is targeted at both beginners and very experienced web developers. Grok is both easy and powerful. Grok
Read moreShadow Daemon – Modular Web Application Firewall
Shadow Daemon is a collection of open source tools to detect, record and prevent attacks on web applications. In other words, Shadow Daemon is a web application firewall that intercepts requests and filters out malicious parameters. Shadow Daemon is a
Read moreAward Winning Open Source Software
We have awarded gold, silver, and bronze medals to 45 open source business software, and 42 open source educational software. Education Apps We cover 14 different types of educational software in the pages below. Click the links to find out
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Linux Means Business – Best Free Business Apps
A business application refers to any application that is important to running a business. The best business applications help an organization to improve how they run their operations, minimize costs, and improve workplace productivity. Sometimes business applications are thought to relate to office software suites which offer word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and email applications. While office suites are very common, business applications extend far further afield.
Read moreLinux Means Business – Security – Best Free Software
Best Open Source Security Software Security is paramount for any business. Security involves defence in depth. Approaching security one step at a time, with consistency and rigour, you can mitigate multiple threats, and provide protection against unauthorized access. Security software
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Excellent No-Charge Linux Books – Learn About Linux – For Beginners
Many no-charge e-books are, frankly, little more than spam bait, often published only to entice you to purchase a book from the same publisher. Poorly written, and with very little original content. Whereas the recommended texts below are definitely worth downloading. They’ll teach you the basics about Linux and so much more. They’re the ideal starting point for your Linux adventures. And you don’t have to divulge any personal information to get your hands on them.
Read morelnav – advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
lnav is the logfile navigator, an open source curses-based tool for viewing and analyzing log files. It looks for any semantic information gleaned from the files being reviewed such as timestamps and log levels. lnav can do things like interleaving
Read moreOnline Grades and Attendance – educational software
Online Grades is a popular open source project which allows K-12+ student grades to be posted onto a dynamic web site. The software accepts grade export information from popular gradebook software programs including Easy Grade Pro, Gradekeeper, Misty City’s Grade
Read moreOwnCloud Documents – ownCloud app
ownCloud Documents is an ownCloud app to work with office documents alone and/or collaboratively. It allows up to 5 individuals to collaborate editing .odt and .doc files in a web browser. ownCloud is a self-hosted file sync and share server.
Read moreHackpad **AWOL**
Hackpad is an open source web-based realtime wiki, based on the open source EtherPad collaborative document editor. Hackpad allows users to share your docs realtime and it uses color coding to show which authors have contributed to which content. It
Read moreWrite Space – customizable, offline, and full-screen text-editor
Write Space is an installable web application for Google Chrome / Chromium and derived web browsers. It is a minimalist, full-screen text-editor that aims to be simple and distraction-free. Write Space is customizable with options accessible through Tools / Extensions
Read moreCalmly Writer – focus on writing
Calmly Writer is billed as the ultimate distraction-free writing tool. It has been designed to help you focus on writing. As you start typing, all the distracting options disappear from the interface. Calmly Writer also includes a “focus mode” option,
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Stencyl – game creation platform
Games created in Stencyl can be exported to the web via Adobe Flash Player, and to personal computers as executable game.
Read moreDDD – graphical front-end for command-line debuggers
The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a popular graphical user interface to debuggers such as GDB, DBX, XDB, JDB and others. The purpose of a debugger such as DDD is to allow you to see what is going on “inside”
Read moreElectric Fence – detect programming bugs
Electric Fence (eFence) is a debugger that uses virtual memory hardware to detect illegal memory accesses. It can detect two common programming bugs: software that overruns or underruns the boundaries of a malloc() memory allocation, and software that touches a
Read moreBitbucket – Git and Mercurial Solution
Bitbucket is a Git and Mercurial based source code management and collaboration solution in the cloud. The software is written in Python using the Django web framework. Bitbucket provides Git and Mercurial code management for professional teams. Their main market
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Kube Web Framework – CSS & JS framework
Kube is a minimal, responsive, advanced web framework for professional developers and designers. Spend less time on mundane, repetitive tasks.
Read moreGNU Screen – full-screen window manager
GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer that runs several separate “screens” on a single physical character-based terminal. Screen prevents a session from “timing out” or disconnecting SSH connections or local terminal emulators. Each virtual terminal emulates a DEC VT100 plus
Read morecool-old-term – terminal emulator
cool-old-term is an open source terminal emulator that is in a very early stage of development. It tries to mimic the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. The developer has not forgotten to include some eye-candy. The
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