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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”
  • ABC Music Notation - text-based music notation system and the de facto standard for folk and traditional music
  • 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
  • alacritty - terminal emulator, URLs can open, search, VI bindings
  • Ansible - software tools that enables infrastructure as code
  • Apache Superset - modern data exploration and visualization platform
  • Ardour - digital audio workstation (DAW)
  • Argo CD - declarative GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes
  • Audacity - digital audio editor and recording application software
  • Azure Resource Inventory - create inventory of Azure Resources, including resource view, documentation, network diagrams
  • Bash - Unix shell and command language written by Brian Fox for the GNU Project as a free software replacement for the Bourne shell
  • Bitwarden - Secrets managers, password management service
  • Blender - Blender 3D computer graphics software tool set
  • 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)
  • Bun - toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript apps include runtime, bundler, test runner and package manager. Fast JavaScript runtime designed as a drop-in replacement for Node.js. Written in Rust and powered by JavaScriptCore under the hood, reducing startup times and memory usage
  • BusyBox - a software suite that provides several Unix utilities in a single executable file
  • Caddy - Reverse proxy, Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS
  • 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 - GNU DDD graphical front end for GDB and CUDA-GDB
  • DB Browser for SQLite - SQLite management, editing browser
  • DBeaver - Universal Database Tool
  • Deno - JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime with secure defaults and a great developer experience. It’s built on V8, Rust, and Tokio.
  • DevDocs - API Documentation Browser for online and offline, including programming languages, APIs and others
  • Docker - set of products that uses operating system-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. Docker automates the deployment of applications within lightweight containers, enabling them to run consistently across different computing environments
  • Dozzle - Realtime log viewer for containers. Supports Docker, Swarm and K8s
  • Drupal - web content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License
  • Element - Secure communications built on the decentralised Matrix open standard
  • 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.
  • Excalidraw - virtual hand-drawn style whiteboard, collaborative and end-to-end encrypted
  • Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (formerly Jabber) - a set of open technologies for instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, lightweight middleware, content syndication, and generalized routing of XML data
  • 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
  • Gajim - XMPP chat client
  • 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
  • GDBGUI - browser front end to GDB (GNU debugger)
  • 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
  • GitLab - software forge with DevOps, security, software development life cycle, deployment and other functionality
  • Gnome - GNU Network Object Model Environment desktop environment for Linux/Unix like
  • GNU Boxes - virtualization
  • GNU Emacs - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.
  • GNU - “GNU is Not Unix” core software to GNU/Linux systems
  • GNU/Linux - operating system
  • Gopeed - Lightweight download manager (HTTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, others)
  • Grafana - full stack observability with Loki for logging.
  • 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
  • HashiCorp Vault or OpenBao - Centralize secret management, rotate old credentials, generate credentials on demand, audit client interactions, and support regulatory compliance
  • headlamp - Kubernetes web UI for local or in cluster use
  • Headscale - self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server building on Wireguard
  • Helix - modal editor like vim with modern defaults and more built in features
  • Helm - find, share, and use software built for Kubernetes; managing Kubernetes applications with charts, which are easy to create, version, share, and publish
  • 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

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