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5 Best Free and Open Source X10 Home Automation Software

January 14, 2024 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, Utilities

X10 is an open standard for controlling home electrical equipment remotely. It works across home power lines and is extremely low-bandwidth.

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Adobe InCopy

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe InCopy

January 12, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

Adobe InCopy is a fully-fledged word processor that enables you to put together standalone text documents. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Spreadsheets

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Sheets

January 7, 2024 Steve Emms Office, Software

Google Sheets is a spreadsheet program included as part of the free, proprietary Google Docs Editors suite. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Adobe Lightroom

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Lightroom Classic

January 5, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Adobe Lightroom Classic is a creative image organization and image manipulation software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Television

Glide – simple and minimalistic media player

January 5, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Glide is designed to be a simple media player. It doesn’t have a ton of features. That’s by design. It’s free and open source software.

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software: December 2023 Updates

December 31, 2023 Steve Emms Software

December 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Software

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Caching Systems

December 30, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, System Software

Caches are employed in a variety of different ways. Here’s our recommended free and open source caching systems.

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News

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple News

December 29, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Software

Apple News is a news aggregator application that helps you to stay up to date with news and information. We recommend FOSS alternatives.

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Internet Forum Software

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Internet Forum Software

December 28, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

An internet forum application is a discussion platform where individuals hold conversations in the form of posted messages.

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Cloud

6 Best Free and Open Source Google Drive Clients

December 23, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 high quality open source Google Drive clients.

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Internet

7 Best Free and Open Source Graphical BitTorrent Clients

December 19, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

BitTorrent, also referred to as simply torrent, is an internet transfer protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P).

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dna-medical

5 Best Free Linux Medical Practice Management Software

December 16, 2023 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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Ecommerce

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux eCommerce Software

December 3, 2023 Steve Emms Roundup, Web Apps

This feature focuses on shopping cart software, which is software used in eCommerce to enable consumers to purchase goods and services online.

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Apple Pages

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Pages

December 2, 2023 Steve Emms Office, Software

Apple Pages is a proprietary wordprocessor that lets you create and edit documents. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Linux recommended software

Best Free and Open Source Software: November 2023 Updates

December 1, 2023 Steve Emms Software

November 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Human Resource Management

6 Best Free and Open Source Human Resource Management Software

November 30, 2023 Steve Emms Roundup, Web Apps

Human resource management is the planned and logical approach to the management of an organization’s most valuable assets – its human capital.

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Foreign Languages

Pot – text translation and recognize

November 29, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, Reviews

Pot is a cross-platform translator application that offers translation by selection and input.

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Data Visualization

20 Best Free and Open Source Python Visualization Packages

November 25, 2023 Eilidih Parris Roundup, Scientific

Python has a fantastic range of packages to produce mesmerizing visualizations. We recommend the best free and open source Python tools.

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Point of Sale

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Point-of-Sale Software

November 22, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

Linux has a good range of open source Point-of-Sale software which can help retailers make considerable cost savings, not simply due to the lack of licensing and upgrade fees.

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Wiki Engines

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Wiki Engines

November 18, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

A Wiki engine is a type of collaborative software that runs a wiki system. We recommend the finest open source engines.

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