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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Teams

October 5, 2022 Steve Emms Office, Software

Microsoft Teams is a proprietary business communication platform. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

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Best Free and Open Source Software

Best Free and Open Source Software – September 2022 Updates

October 1, 2022 Steve Emms Software

September 2022 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: CopyQ – advanced clipboard manager

September 30, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

CopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager. This software stores content of the system clipboard whenever it changes.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Photo Booth

September 28, 2022 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Photo Booth is a software application for taking photos and videos with an iSight camera. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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ONLYOFFICE

ONLYOFFICE Docs v7.2 released: built-in plugin marketplace, new field types, ligatures, Live Viewer, new interface themes and more

September 26, 2022 Steve Emms Office, Software

Find a brief overview of what’s new in ONLYOFFICE Docs v7.2.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Preview

September 23, 2022 Steve Emms Graphics, Office, Utilities

Preview is an image viewer and PDF viewer for the macOS operating system. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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10 Fun Free and Open Source First Person Shooter Games: Part 2

September 18, 2022 Lee Walker Games, Software

This is a computer game genre focused on guns and other weapon-based fighting using a first-person perspective.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Whiteboard

September 16, 2022 Steve Emms Office, Software

Microsoft Whiteboard provides a freeform, intelligent canvas to create, and collaborate via the cloud. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Best Free Android Apps: K-9 Mail – advanced email

September 11, 2022 Eilidih Parris Android

K-9 Mail is a free and open source email client for Android. It works well with large volumes of email.

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Static Site Generators

5 Best Free and Open Source Lisp Static Site Generators

September 10, 2022 Eilidih Parris Programming, Software

We have compiled a list of 5 best Lisp static site generators. These tools are released under a freely distributable license.

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Screen Capture

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Screenshot

September 9, 2022 Steve Emms Graphics, Software, Utilities

Apple Screenshot is a small utility that’s part of macOS. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Spotify

spotify-player – command driven Spotify player

September 7, 2022 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

spotify-player is a command-line Spotify client that’s written in Rust. It’s published under an open source license.

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Coding

5 Best Free and Open Source PHP Object-Relational Mapping Software

September 4, 2022 Eilidih Parris Programming, Software

ORM is a programming technique for converting data between incompatible type systems using object-oriented programming languages.

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Music Streaming

Streaming with Linux: Myuzi

September 2, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

This is the second article in a new series that surveys popular streaming services and software from a Linux perspective. Myuzi is billed as a Spotify-like client with no ads.

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Best Free and Open Source Software

Best Free and Open Source Software – August 2022 Updates

September 1, 2022 Steve Emms Software

August 2022 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Spotify

ncspot – ncurses Spotify client

August 29, 2022 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

ncspot is a command-line Spotify client that’s written in Rust. It’s published under an open source license.

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Spotify

Spotify TUI – Spotify client for the terminal

August 26, 2022 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

For this review, we’re looking at Spotify TUI. It’s a Spotify client for the terminal written in Rust.

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Podcast

Kasts – convergent podcast software

August 24, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Kasts is billed as a “convergent podcast application”. It is written in C++ and QML and uses the Kirigami UI Framework. It’s free and open source software.

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Task Manager

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Reminders

August 22, 2022 Steve Emms Productivity, Software, Utilities

Apple Reminders is a task management program to create lists and set notifications. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Streaming with Linux: Spotify

spotify-qt – lightweight Spotify client

August 19, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

spotify-qt is billed as a lightweight Spotify client. As its name indicates it’s built using Qt. Here’s our review of this open source client.

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