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Data Analysis

SciPy – Scientific Computing Tools for Python

October 16, 2023 Eilidih Parris Scientific

SciPy (pronounced “Sigh Pie”) is a Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.

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Mail Notification

CheckMails – system tray unread mail checker

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

CheckMails periodically looks for unread mails and displays the total number of unread mails in the system tray icon.

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Webmin – web-based interface for system administration

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration of Linux servers and services. It’s high quality free and open source software.

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Chemistry

PyMOL – molecular visualization system software

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

PyMOL is a molecular graphics system designed for real-time visualization and molecular graphics images and animations.

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Chemistry

CP2K – atomistic simulations of solid state, liquid, molecular and biological systems

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

CP2K is a free and open source quantum chemistry and solid state physics software package that can perform atomistic simulations.

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Chemistry

Kalzium – periodic system of the elements

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Kalzium is a chemistry application for KDE 5, including a Periodic Table of Elements, chemical reference, chemical equation solver, and more.

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Configuration Management

Quattor – distribution of open source tools aimed at complete system management

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Quattor is a distribution of open source tools aimed at complete system management. Manage non-grid servers, desktops, virtual machines…

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Configuration Management

Bcfg2 – portable configuration management system

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Bcfg2 is a configuration management system. It helps system administrators deploy complex changes across large numbers of systems.

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Natural Language Processing

Moses – statistical machine translation system

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Moses is a statistical machine translation system to automatically train translation models for any language pair.

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Menu

pdmenu – full screen menuing system

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

pdmenu is a simple open source console menu program. It’s designed to be easy to use, and is suitable for a login shell.

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BarnOwl – curses-based IM client forked from the ​ktools owl project

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

BarnOwl is a curses-based instant messenger client.The software is forked from the ktools owl project. It’s free and open source software.

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Science

OpenRTM-aist – software platform for component-oriented development of robot systems

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

OpenRTM-aist is a free and open source software platform for component-oriented development of robot systems.

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Science

The Player Project – software tools for robot and sensor applications

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

The Player Project creates Free Software that enables research in robot and sensor systems. It’s written in C++.

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Media Center

Jellyfin – media system to manage and stream media

October 14, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia

Jellyfin is a free and open source media system to manage and stream media. It is an alternative to the proprietary Emby and Plex.

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Archive Manager

Xarchiver – front-end to various command line archiving tools

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Xarchiver is a program for handling archives on Linux and FreeBSD. Xarchiver is free and open source software.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

z – jump around the filesystem

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

z is a shell script that maintains a jump-list of the directories you actually use. It tracks your most used directories, based on ‘frecency’.

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OCRFeeder – document layout analysis and optical character recognition system

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

OCRFeeder is a free open source software desktop OCR suite for the GNOME desktop environment. It features a GTK+ graphical user interface.

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OCRopus – Python-based tools for document analysis and OCR

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

ocropy (referred to as OCRopus) is an OCR system written in Python, NumPy, and SciPy focusing on the use of large scale machine learning.

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hocr-tools – manipulate and evaluate hOCR format

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

hocr-tools is a set of tools for manipulating and evaluating the hOCR format for representing multi-lingual OCR results.

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Server

FAI – install, customize and manage Linux systems and software

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) is a high quality tool for fully automatic installation of new Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Debian and more.

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