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Documentation Generators

20 Best Free and Open Source Linux Documentation Generators

November 14, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

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

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Dashboard

19 Best Free and Open Source Status Page Systems

November 14, 2026 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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Reference Management

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Reference Management Tools

November 14, 2026 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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Photo Gallery

24 Best Free and Open Source Web Photo Gallery Solutions

November 13, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Web Apps

Linux software that helps to host, organize, describe and share your collection by using a number of different techniques.

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Server

14 Best Free and Open Source Linux Server Provisioning Tools

November 13, 2026 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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Linux’s Biggest Problem Isn’t Microsoft. It’s Linux Users.

November 12, 2026 Scott Donaldson Blog

Linux’s biggest obstacle may be its own community. Why blaming users, defending broken features and dismissing criticism drives people away.

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Art

34 Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools

November 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures.

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Cloud

9 Best Free and Open Source IaaS Software

November 12, 2026 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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Web Content Management Systems

11 Best Free and Open Source Ruby-Based Web Content Management Systems

November 11, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

Here’s our favorite Ruby-based web content management systems.

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DJ

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Software for DJs

November 11, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup

If you’re starting out as a DJ, you’ll probably want to try free software, as proprietary solutions can be very expensive. Fortunately, Linux has useful software for DJs.

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Utility

13 Best Free and Open Source Console Based Network ‘top’ Tools

November 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, System Software

We recommend the best network ‘top’ tools.

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Hard disk image

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

November 10, 2026 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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System Cleaning

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux System Cleaning Tools

November 10, 2026 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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Network

15 Best Free and Open Source File Systems for Big Data

November 10, 2026 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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Graphics card image

14 Best Free and Open Source NVIDIA GPU Monitoring Tools

November 9, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

nvidia-smi is a basic monitoring and management tool for NVIDIA graphics card. We explore other useful NVIDIA GPU monitoring tools.

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Family History

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Family History Software

November 9, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Other, Roundup

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

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Music

12 Best Free and Open Source Graphical MPD Clients

November 9, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

MPD is a powerful server-side application for playing music. We recommend our favourite open source graphical MPD clients.

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dna-medical

6 Best Free and Open Source Linux Medical Practice Management Software

November 9, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Medical Practice Management Software is a type of software that is designed to supervise and support the day-to-day operations of a medical practice.

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Log Analyzers

14 Best Free and Open Source Log Analyzers

November 8, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

Making sense of logs helps organisations make better customer-focused decisions. We recommend the finest open source log analyzers.

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Natural Language Processing

11 Excellent Free and Open Source Java Natural Language Processing Tools

November 8, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, Scientific

Java remains one of the most widely used programming languages. We explore the best free and open source Java based NLP tools.

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