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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Groups

August 25, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Software

Google Groups is a service that provides discussion groups for people sharing common interests. We recommend the best self-hosted alternatives.

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Machine Learning in Linux: GodMode – AI Chat Browser

August 25, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, Software

GodMode is billed as a dedicated chat browser giving instant access to the full webapps of ChatGPT, Claude 2, Perplexity, Bing, and other AI services.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple DiskImageMounter

August 25, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

DiskImageMounter is a utility that takes care of disk volume images. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Cue Is A Command Line Music Player With Gapless Playback

August 24, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Cue is a command line music player written in the C programming language. It’s free and open source software.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ftp

August 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternative tools to ftp, a network protocol used for transferring files from one computer system to another.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Image Capture

August 24, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

Image Capture lets you transfer images and video clips to a Mac from a camera, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or other device that has a camera. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Awesome Linux Game Tools: GOverlay

August 23, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Utilities

GOverlay is a GUI tool used to manage MangoHud, vkBasalt and ReplaySorcery on Linux.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Photos

August 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

Google Photos lets you store your images in the cloud for convenient access from anywhere. What are the best open source alternatives?

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Immich is a simple to use backup tool for self-hosted photos and videos

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, System Software

Immich is a self-hosted photo storage and sharing service. If you don’t want your photos firmly under someone else’s control, you might like Immich.

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6 Small Free and Open Source Console Menu Utilities

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup

This article looks at six tiny utilities that offer menu facilities.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: telnet

August 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to telnet, a tool to login to a remote system.

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Hypervisors

6 Best Free and Open Source Type 1 Hypervisors

August 21, 2023 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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Search

8 Best Free and Open Source Search Engines for Big Data

August 20, 2023 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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Encryption software

5 Best Free and Open Source Email Encryption Tools

August 19, 2023 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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Fonts

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Fonts

August 18, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Google Fonts is a font and web font service. It offers font families and an interactive web directory. We recommend open source alternatives.

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Coding

5 Best Free and Open Source Python Shells

August 18, 2023 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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Web

Optimize Web Delivery with these Open Source Tools

August 17, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Web proxy software forwards HTTP requests without modifying traffic in any way. They can be configured as a transparent proxy with no client-side configuration required.

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Documentation Generators

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Help Viewer

August 16, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software

Help Viewer is a WebKit based HTML viewer for macOS aimed at displaying help files and other documentation. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives from a Linux perspective.

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Comment

A User’s Opinion: Design Choices by Open Source Developers

August 15, 2023 James McCarthy Reviews

A reader’s view about the customer experience and open source projects.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: talk

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to talk, a venerable talk client.

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