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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Server Provisioning Tools

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

Server provisioning is a set of actions to prepare a server, taking it from bare metal to a functioning system.

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6 Best Free and Open Source Linux Reference Management Tools

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms Education, Roundup, Scientific

Reference management software is software for academics and authors to use to record and use bibliographic citations.

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11 Best Free and Open Source File Systems for Big Data

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup, Scientific

This feature highlights the finest open source file systems designed to cope with the demands imposed by Big Data.

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4 Best Free and Open Source Native XML Databases for Big Data

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup, Scientific

Big Data is an all-inclusive term that refers to data sets so large and complex that they need to be processed by specially designed hardware and software tools.

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4 Best Free and Open Source Noise Suppression Tools

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

This article selects our pick of the available noise suppression tools. We only explore free and open source software here.

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10 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based Git Clients

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, Web Apps

Git is an open source distributed version control system which was originally designed by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, in 2005 for Linux kernel development. We explore our recommended web-based tools.

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Documentation Generators

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Documentation Generators

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

A documentation generator is a programming tool that generates documentation intended for programmers and end users.

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Best Free and Open Source IaaS Software

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a service model where an organization outsources the equipment used to support storage, hardware, servers and networking components.

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9 Best Free and Open Source Hard Disk Utilities for System Tweakers

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

We showcase the finest open source tools to diagnose the health of a hard disk and improve its performance.

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Classroom Tools

8 Essential Free and Open Source Linux Classroom Tools

December 16, 2025 Steve Emms Education, Roundup

The software featured in this article offers indispensable ways to help manage a computer-based classroom.

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Coding

9 Best Free and Open Source Python Integrated Development Environments

December 16, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

A good IDE tries to accurately predict what the developer is seeking to do without getting in the way.

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Maths

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Geometry Software

December 16, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Typically geometry software covers a wide range of application areas, including pure Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, computer-aided design, and computational kinematics.

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System Cleaning

6 Best Free and Open Source Linux System Cleaning Tools

December 16, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

There are a number of open source applications for Linux which help to keep the operating system working like new.

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5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Network Authentication Tools

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Security, System Software

Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) is a networking protocol that offers centralized connection authentication, authorization, and accounting management for various types of network access.

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Office

4 Best Free and Open Source Office Suites

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms Office, Roundup

An office suite is a collection of productivity software usually containing a word processor, spreadsheet and a presentation program.

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Composing Music

12 Excellent Free and Open Source Scorewriters – Compose, arrange, print, and publish music

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

A scorewriter is software used with a computer for creating, editing and printing sheet music. We recommend free and open source software.

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5 Best Free and Open Source CardDAV Servers

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

CardDAV (“Card Distributed Authoring and Versioning”) is a standardized address book client/server protocol.

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Search

11 Best Free and Open Source Search Engines for Big Data

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet, Roundup

Big Data is an all-inclusive term that refers to data sets so large and complex that they need to be processed by specially designed hardware and software tools.

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Coding

6 Best Free and Open Source Clojure Linter Tools

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This article picks some useful tools to help you fix Clojure code.

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Command Schedulers

7 Best Free and Open Source CLI Command Schedulers

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, Utilities

The software utility cron also known as cron job is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. But there are other high quality CLI command schedulers.

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