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6 Best Free and Open Source Email Encryption Tools

December 13, 2025 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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Hypervisors

6 Best Free and Open Source Type 1 Hypervisors

December 13, 2025 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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Dashboard

10 Best Free and Open Source Status Page Systems

December 12, 2025 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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Best Free and Open Source Calendar Software

6 Best Free and Open Source CalDAV Servers

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

CalDav (Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV) is an internet standard allowing clients to access scheduling or meeting information on a remote server.

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December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Software

Our popular series on the best free and open source Linux software, hardware including mini PCs and SBCs, phones, and NAS devices.

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7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Web Caches

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software, Web Apps

Web caches have become a vital mechanism for optimizing the amount of data that is delivered in a given period of time. Good web caches also help to minimise latency, serving pages as quickly as possible.

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Cloud

9 Best Free and Open Source Functions-as-a-Service

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Here are the best Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) solutions, sometimes known as serverless. Free and open source goodness.

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Command Schedulers

6 Best Free and Open Source GUI Command Schedulers

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

The software utility cron also known as cron job is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems.

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SSD

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: df

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to df, a utility that reports file system space usage in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.

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Photo Gallery

15 Best Free and Open Source Web Photo Gallery Solutions

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Web Apps

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 15 of the most useful open source web photo gallery software.

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Monitor System

24 Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to the Top Utility

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

top is a small, venerable utility that offers a dynamic real-time view of a running system. We identify alternatives to top that offer more control in managing processes on a running system.

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Utility

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

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, System Software

Out of the myriad of utilities that are available for Linux, top is a troubleshooting tool that often comes up in conversation. We recommend the best network ‘top’ tools.

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Coding

17 Best Free and Open Source Python Microframeworks

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This article examines the best Python microframeworks. Micro means the framework is small, with little or no tools and libraries.

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Chat

18 Top Free and Open Source Console Based IRC Clients

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. We recommend the finest console-based IRC clients.

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Files

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: rename

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to rename which renames the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of expression in their name by replacement.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: November 2025 Updates

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

November 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Archive Manager

8 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Linux Archive Managers

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Roundup, Utilities

We feature the best graphical archive managers.

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Hard disk image

5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Partitioning Tools

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

Disk partitioning is the means of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions.

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Electronic circuit

8 Best Free and Open Source GUI Electronic Circuit Simulators

November 27, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Electronic circuit simulation uses mathematical models to replicate the behavior of an actual electronic device or circuit. We feature the best GUI tools.

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FTP

9 Best Free and Open Source Command-line FTP clients

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, Utilities

This article provides our pick of the best open source command line file transfer programs.

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