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Free and/or Open Source Software (FOSS)

Free/Libre and/or Open Source Software

Section titled “Free/Libre and/or Open Source Software”

Source: Fight for your freedom in computing. Don’t let proprietary programs control you plus my additions

  • 7zip - file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as “archives”
  • Aegis - free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens
  • age - secure encryption tool and Go library with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability
  • Ansible - software tools that enables infrastructure as code
  • Ardour - digital audio workstation
  • Audacity - digital audio editor and recording application software
  • Bash - Unix shell and command language written by Brian Fox for the GNU Project as a free software replacement for the Bourne shell
  • Bitwarden - password management service
  • Blender - Blender 3D computer graphics software tool setA
  • Browsh - text-based browser. It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL. Its main purpose is to be run on a remote server and accessed via SSH/Mosh or the in-browser HTML service in order to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs. Only dependency is a recent version of Firefox.
  • Bruno - Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API’s (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia)
  • BusyBox - a software suite that provides several Unix utilities in a single executable file
  • Calibre - cross-platform suite of e-book software
  • Ceph - software-defined storage platform that implements object storage
  • Clonezilla - drive cloning, drive imaging and system deployment utilities used to simplify deployment and maintenance of a group of computers
  • Cockpit - web based interface for servers, intended for everyone like Linux admins and new users
  • croc - Easily and securely send things from one computer to another
  • ctags, etags - Generate tag files for source code
  • Data Display Debugger DDD - graphical front end for GDB and CUDA-GDB
  • DB Browser for SQLite - SQLite management, editing browser
  • DevDocs - API Documentation Browser for online and offline, including programming languages, APIs and others
  • Drupal - web content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License
  • ELinks - text based browser
  • Espanso - Privacy-first, cross-platform text expander
  • eSpeak NG Text-to-Speech - speech synthesizer, TTS that supports more than hundred languages and accents.
  • Fairmail - privacy oriented email app for Android
  • Faker - Test/fake data generation, also a Python package
  • F-Droid - app store and software repository for Android, serving a similar function to the Google Play store
  • Firefox - web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation, see also Firefox Shortcuts
  • Flatpak - formerly known as xdg-app is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. Offers a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation
  • FreeTube - private YouTube viewer
  • frp - Fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet
  • Garage - S3-compatible object store for small self-hosted geo-distributed deployments
  • GCC - GNU Compiler Collection is an optimizing compiler produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages, hardware architectures and operating systems
  • GDB - GNU Project Debugger for various languages
  • gImageReader - Optical Character Recognition (OCR), A Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr
  • Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor[5] used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats
  • Git - distributed version control
  • Gnome - GNU Network Object Model Environment desktop environment for Linux/Unix like
  • GNU Boxes - virtualization
  • GNU - “GNU is Not Unix” core software to GNU/Linux systems
  • GNU/Linux - operating system
  • Gopeed - Lightweight download manager (HTTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, others)
  • GRASS GIS - Geographical Information System software used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/map production, spatial modelling, and visualization
  • grex - Generate a matching regular expression from the test cases you provide, also has Rust library and Python bindings
  • Grub - GNU project’s bootloader software
  • Handbrake - video converter, transcoder for digital video files
  • headlamp - Kubernetes web UI for local or in cluster use
  • htop - interactive system-monitor process-viewer and process-manager
  • ImageMagick - editing and manipulating digital images. It can be used to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images, and supports a wide range of file formats, including JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and Ultra HDR
  • ImageMagick
  • KDE

Resources

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