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Realm – simple relay server

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Realm is a simple, high performance relay server.

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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Server Provisioning Tools

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software

Server provisioning is a set of actions to prepare a server, taking it from bare metal to a functioning system.

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8 Best Free and Open Source SSH Servers

November 22, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

SSH or Secure Shell is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network

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Dendrite – second-generation Matrix homeserver

September 24, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Dendrite is a second-generation Matrix homeserver. It is currently in maintenance mode, meaning only security fixes are being applied.

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Synapse – Matrix homeserver

September 15, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Synapse is an open source Matrix homeserver implementation written in the Python programming language.

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Tuwunel – high performance Matrix homeserver

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Tuwunel is a featureful Matrix homeserver you can use instead of Synapse with your favorite client, bridge or bot.

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Conduit – Matrix homeserver

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Conduit aims to be an efficient Matrix homeserver that’s easy to set up and just works. It’s written in Rust.

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gohttpserver – HTTP static file server

August 13, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

gohttpserver is a HTTP static file server with a human-friendly user interface and lots of features.

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13 Best Free and Open Source Remote Desktop Servers

November 25, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

This article examines the best free Linux remote desktop servers.

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Guacamole – clientless remote desktop gateway

November 20, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH.

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FreeRDP – Remote Desktop Protocol Implementation

November 15, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

FreeRDP is a free and open source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license.

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Sound System

6 Best Free and Open Source Sound Systems

August 24, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

A sound system is software that manages the use of and access to audio devices (usually a sound card). It commonly runs as a background process.

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XMPP

6 Best Free and Open Source XMPP Servers

March 3, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

XMPP (also known as Jabber) is an open and free alternative to commercial messaging and chat providers. We select the best servers.

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XMPP

jabberD – XMPP server

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

jabberd 2.x project is the next generation of the jabberd project. It’s rewritten from the ground up to be scalable, architecturally sound.

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XMPP

Metronome IM – lightweight XMPP server with advanced microblogging features

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Metronome is a XMPP instant messaging server, based on the latest approved RFC standards.

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XMPP

Prosody – modern XMPP communication server

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Prosody is a modern XMPP communication server. It aims to be easy to set up and configure, and efficient with system resources.

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XMPP

MongooseIM – mobile messaging platform with focus on performance and scalability

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

MongooseIM is a mobile messaging platform with focus on performance and scalability.

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XMPP

Openfire – instant messaging and groupchat server

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Openfire is a real time collaboration (RTC) server. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP.

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XMPP

ejabberd – XMPP application server and an MQTT broker

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

ejabberd is a distributed, fault-tolerant technology that allows the creation of large-scale instant messaging applications.

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Lightweight Web Servers

Top 5 Lightweight Web Servers

December 20, 2017 Steve Emms Internet, Software, System Software

There is a good range of lightweight web servers released under an open source license. To provide an insight in the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 high quality open source lightweight web servers. Hopefully there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to run a web server.

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