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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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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: rm

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to rm, a command that removes files or directories.

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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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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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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: grep

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to grep, a utility that searches for patterns in each file.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.

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5 Best Free and Open Source Python Shells

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms Languages, Programming, Roundup

There are some excellent alternative Python shells that extend on the basic shell. They each offer a good interactive Python experience.

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10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Family History Software

December 13, 2025 Steve Emms Education, Other, Roundup

This article highlights the best genealogy software that runs under Linux.

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6 Best Free and Open Source Email Encryption Tools

December 13, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Sending encrypted messages is one method of ensuring electronic privacy. We feature the best free and open source email encryption tools.

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6 Best Free and Open Source Type 1 Hypervisors

December 13, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Internet, Roundup, System Software

This article identifies the finest open source Type 1 hypervisors that are available to download.

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10 Best Free and Open Source Status Page Systems

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

A status page system is software that lets you communicate incidents, schedule maintenances and downtimes with your customers.

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Best Free and Open Source Calendar Software

6 Best Free and Open Source CalDAV Servers

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

CalDav (Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV) is an internet standard allowing clients to access scheduling or meeting information on a remote server.

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December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Software

Our popular series on the best free and open source Linux software, hardware including mini PCs and SBCs, phones, and NAS devices.

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7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Web Caches

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

Web caches have become a vital mechanism for optimizing the amount of data that is delivered in a given period of time. Good web caches also help to minimise latency, serving pages as quickly as possible.

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9 Best Free and Open Source Functions-as-a-Service

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Here are the best Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) solutions, sometimes known as serverless. Free and open source goodness.

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Documents

15 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

When invoked without any arguments, ls lists the files in the current working directory. We recommend some great replacements.

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Command Schedulers

6 Best Free and Open Source GUI Command Schedulers

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

The software utility cron also known as cron job is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ping

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: df

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to df, a utility that reports file system space usage in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.

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15 Best Free and Open Source Web Photo Gallery Solutions

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Web Apps

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 15 of the most useful open source web photo gallery software.

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