December 2020 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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butterfly – web terminal based on websocket and tornado
butterfly is an xterm compatible terminal that runs in your web browser. butterfly is free and open source software.
Read moreFlynn – open source Platform as a Service
Flynn is an open source Platform as a Service. It’s a simple, turnkey solution to cloud, containers, ops, whatever you want to call it. Flynn manages all the technology you need under the surface. Flynn is designed to run anything
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Herrie – minimalistic music player
Herrie is a minimalistic music player that uses the command line. It is written to support a variety of operating systems, audio subsystems.
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Regards – modern photo viewer
Regards is billed as a modern photo viewer. It supports a very large range of formats including video.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – October 2020 Updates
October 2020 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software.
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libHaru – library for generating PDF files
libHaru is a library for generating PDF files. libHaru is free and open source software published under the zlib license.
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Apache PDFBox – library for working with PDF documents
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. PDFBox is free and open source software.
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OpenPDF – Java library for creating and editing PDF files
OpenPDF is a Java library for creating and editing PDF files with a LGPL and MPL open source license. Fork of iText 4.
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Apache FOP – print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects
Apache FOP (Formatting Object Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent formatter.
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Poppler – library for rendering PDF files, and examining or modifying their structure
Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base. Poppler comes with multiple frontends (APIs): cpp, glib and qt5.
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PoDoFo – parse PDF files and modify their contents into memory
PoDoFo is a library to work with the PDF file format. The name comes from the first letter of PDF (Portable Document Format).
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Excellent Utilities: fd – superior alternative to the venerable find
fd is a utility that searches for files in a directory hierarchy. Here’s our review.
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Now and Then: The Fate of 5 Open Source Integrated Development Environments
In 2014, we identified 5 promising free and open source Integrated Development Environments. How did they fare?
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dbKoda – modern open source database development and admin tool
dbKoda is a modern IDE for MongoDB. It has features to support development, administration and performance tuning on MongoDB databases.
Read moreVesta – open source hosting control panel
Vesta is an open source hosting control panel. The control panel offers a clean and focused interface. All the core functionality is free and open source. Commercial plugins are available. Features include: Web interface – PHP and JavaScript based. Slick
Read moreBalance – open source load balancing solution
Balance is a load balancing solution being a simple but powerful generic TCP proxy with round robin load balancing and failover capabilities. Its behaviour can be easily controlled at runtime using a simple command line syntax. Balance is free and
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BpyTOP – resource monitor tool
BpyTOP is a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. It’s a Python port of bashtop. Here’s our review.
Read moreMark Text – simple and elegant Markdown editor
Mark Text is a simple and elegant Markdown editor. This editor focuses on speed and usability. Mark Text shows you formatted text in realtime while you can simply write and edit text but also use markdown syntax. To improve your
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Annie – video downloader built with Go
Annie is an open source video downloader. It’s written in the Go programming language. Here’s our verdict on this tool.
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