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Productivity

Best Free and Open Source Software – Productivity

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering file managers, desktop search engines, mind mapping, notes, collection managers, diary tools, and more.

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Games

Best Free and Open Source Software – Games

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering action games, arcade games, steam games, emulators, board games, game engines, and more.

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Security

Best Free and Open Source Software – Security

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Security, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering security software, firewalls, web application firewalls, email encryption, port scanners.

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Selection of utilities

Best Free and Open Source Software – Utilities

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering compression tools, system cleaning, password managers, font tools, essential utilities.

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Coding

Best Free and Open Source Software – Development

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Programming, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering IDEs, frameworks, compilers, debuggers, revision control, programming languages.

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Web Apps

Best Free and Open Source Software – Web Applications

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering web servers, web analytics, frameworks, content management systems, blog, forum, ERP, CRP.

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Other Applications

Best Free and Open Source Software – Other Applications

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering family history, crafting tools, candy, comic book viewers, humor, religion and astrology.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Books

June 2, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple Books is an e-book reading and store application. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Best Free and Open Source Software – May 2023

May 31, 2023 Erik Karlsson Software

Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. Open source software at its finest.

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tori – terminal-based music player

May 29, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

tori is a promising music player in a very early stage of development. In terms of functionality, it’s a long way from musikcube.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: mv

May 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to mv.

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System Administration

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Activity Monitor

May 26, 2023 Steve Emms Software, System Software

Activity Monitor displays a variety of resources in use on a system in real time. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: locate

May 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to locate.

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Machine Learning in Linux: Spleeter – source separation library

May 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Spleeter is a source separation library with pre-trained models written in Python. It’s free and open source software.

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MusicPod – music, podcast and internet radio player

May 22, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

MusicPod is an example of a project that’s in a very early stage of development. It’s a music, radio and podcast player wrapped up in a graphical user interface.

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Calculators

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Calculator

May 19, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity, Software

Microsoft Calculator app lets you perform basic arithmetic and scientific calculations. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

Distrobox – use Linux distributions in your terminal

May 17, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software

Distrobox is software which creates and manages container-based development environments without root privileges.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Machine Learning in Linux: Imaginer – generate images with AI

May 15, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, Scientific, Software

Imaginer is software which lets you generate pictures using AI. You supply a text prompt, consisting of a collection of words to describe an image, and an AI model creates an image based on the words.

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Files

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: split

May 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to split, a utility that splits a file into pieces.

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Font Tools

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Font Book

May 12, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple Font Book lets you organise fonts into collections and libraries. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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