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Calculate is a fast and functional user-friendly Linux distribution, based on Gentoo and still backward compatible with it. It maintains an optimal balance between state-of-the-art and stability, providing the latest versions of applications and stable versions of libraries. As Calculate Linux is a rolling-release distribution, you install the system once and update it throughout the life of your hardware.
Wayfire is a wayland compositor based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.
Rnote is an open-source vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes and to annotate documents and pictures. Targeted at students, teachers and those who own a drawing tablet, it provides features like PDF and picture import and export, an infinite canvas and an adaptive UI for big and small screens.
Trisquel GNU/Linux is a fully free operating system for home users, small enterprises and educational centers.
muCommander is an open source, dual-pane file manager available on all major operating systems.
A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops. Foliate @ GitHub.
A terminal-centric distro with a vibrant and friendly community at its core
DJ Your Way Free and open source DJ Mixing software for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Mixxx integrates the tools DJs need to perform creative live mixes with digital music files. Whether you are a new DJ with just a laptop or an experienced turntablist, Mixxx can support your style and techniques of mixing.
GNU's advanced distro and transactional package manager. Guix is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU Project—which respects the freedom of computer users.
Open-source productivity booster with a brain. Cerebro is an open-source launcher to improve your productivity and efficiency.
Easily manage Linux Chroot(s) and Containers with Atoms. Atoms was created to solve the lack of a GUI to create, manage and use chroot environments. Although there is support for Distrobox, Atoms does not aim to offer a fine integration with Podman as its purpose is only to allow the user to open a shell in a new environment, be it chroot or container.
Linux OS distribution based on Nix package manager, providing reproducible builds and deployments.
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Camera controls for Linux
It's a standalone Python CLI and GUI (GTK, TK) and camera Viewer (SDL) to set the camera controls in Linux. It can set the V4L2 controls and it is extendable with the non standard controls. Currently it has a Logitech extension (Led mode, led frequency, BRIO FoV), Kiyo Pro extension (HDR, HDR mode, FoV, AF mode, Save), Systemd extension (Save and restore controls with Systemd path+service).
Any File. Any Device. Cross-platform Network File Transfer Application. A cross-platform network file transfer application designed to make transferring any file to any device as painless as possible.
Nixpkgs is a collection of over 80,000 software packages that can be installed with the Nix package manager. It also implements NixOS, a purely-functional Linux distribution.
🏔 Love Freedom - ❌ Block Mass Surveillance. Portmaster is a free and open-source application firewall that does the heavy lifting for you. Restore privacy and take back control over all your computer's network activity.
The browser for ambitious developers. Build better websites in less time with a stand-alone browser that makes your site more responsive, more accessible and faster. Save hours on each project, love every minute of it.
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Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux, macOS and Windows.
Ardour is a professional digital workstation for working with audio and MIDI.
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A lightweight free Spotify 🎧 crossplatform-client 🖥📱 which handles playback manually, streams music using Youtube & no Spotify premium account is needed 😱 Spotube is a Flutter based lightweight spotify client. It utilizes the power of Spotify & Youtube's public API & creates a hazardless, performant & resource friendly User Experience.
FREE Desktop app to clean image metadata. Privacy and Performance. Attackers use GPS and device metadata to profile their victims. It also increases image file size. Sweep it away, with ExifCleaner.
INSECA is a set of tools to build and manage very secure live Linux based endpoint systems.
It builds on top of Debian's livebuild technology and adds many security oriented features to ensure a high level of security while keeping the overall usage as simple as any system.
Watch YouTube videos in a new way: you type a keyword, Minitube gives you an endless video stream. Minitube is not about cloning the YouTube website, it aims to create a new TV-like experience. Read more
The Open Mainframe Project was founded in 2015, as a focal point for deployment and use of Linux and Open Source in a mainframe computing environment.
The icon manager for web developer
All your icons in one place, easily copyable as code.
Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Distrobox uses podman or docker to create containers using the Linux distribution of your choice. The created container will be tightly integrated with the host, allowing sharing of the HOME directory of the user, external storage, external USB devices and graphical apps (X11/Wayland), and audio.
Free and Open Source password manager for Android, iOS, MacOS, Linux and Windows. Compatible with KeePass.
a terminal for a more modern age Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.
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A very minimal GUI app that can write compressed disk images to USB drives.
Flash. Flawless. Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.
Linux Device Manager for Logitech Unifying Receivers and Devices. Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and trackpads that connect wirelessly to a USB Unifying, Bolt, Lightspeed, or Nano receiver, connect directly via a USB cable, or connect via Bluetooth. Solaar does not work with peripherals from other companies.
Simplified and community-driven man pages. The tldr pages are a community effort to simplify the beloved man pages with practical examples.
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Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux. NoiseTorch-ng is an easy to use open source application for Linux with PulseAudio or PipeWire. It creates a virtual microphone that suppresses noise, in any application. Use whichever conferencing or VOIP application you like and simply select the filtered Virtual Microphone as input to torch the sound of your mechanical keyboard, computer fans, trains and the likes.
A GUI frontend for @werman's Pulse Audio real-time noise suppression plugin. Cadmus is a graphical application which allows you to remove background noise from audio in real-time in any communication app. Cadmus adds a notification icon to your shell which allows you to easily select a microphone as a source, and subsequently creates a PulseAudio output which removes all recorded background noise (typing, ambient noise, etc). If you find the application useful, leave a star — it helps!
Welcome to RasPwn OS, The intentionally vulnerable image for the Raspberry Pi.
Raspwn OS is a GNU/Linux distro in the spirit of Damn Vulnerable Linux and uses a Raspberry Pi 2B or 3 to emulate a vulnerable Linux Server. RasPwn was designed as a training tool and exists only to be attacked and pwned. Everything from the OS itself to the daemons and services to the web applications installed are all vulnerable to some degree. The idea is to provide a 'safe' (relatively) and affordable training environment and playground for hackers and pen-testers. By loading Raspwn OS and connecting to the Raspberry Pi via WiFi, one can practice pen-testing as well as both offensive and defensive hacking techniques without ever even getting on the internet for only around $50.
Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System. Free Linux OS for the community, by the community
An Open Source, community owned and governed, forever-free enterprise Linux distribution, focused on long-term stability, providing a robust production-grade platform. AlmaLinux OS is 1:1 binary compatible with RHEL® and pre-Stream CentOS.
KOReader is a document viewer for E Ink devices. Supported fileformats include EPUB, PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBT, CBZ, FB2, PDB, TXT, HTML, RTF, CHM, DOC, MOBI and ZIP files. It’s available for Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Android and desktop Linux.
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Easy, proactive monitoring of processes, programs, files, directories, filesystems and hosts.
Monit is a small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.
The industry leading website crawler for Windows, macOS and Ubuntu, trusted by thousands of SEOs and agencies worldwide for technical SEO site audits.
Making Embedded Linux Easy Buildroot is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation.
The Yocto Project. It's not an embedded Linux Distribution, It creates a custom one for you. The Yocto Project (YP) is an open source collaboration project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems regardless of the hardware architecture. The project provides a flexible set of tools and a space where embedded developers worldwide can share technologies, software stacks, configurations, and best practices that can be used to create tailored Linux images for embedded and IOT devices, or anywhere a customized Linux OS is needed.
The Private YouTube Client. FreeTube is a YouTube client for Windows, Mac, and Linux built around using YouTube more privately. You can enjoy your favorite content and creators without your habits being tracked. All of your user data is stored locally and never sent or published to the internet. FreeTube grabs data by scraping the information it needs (with either local methods or by optionally utilizing the Invidious API). With many features similar to YouTube, FreeTube has become one of the best methods to watch YouTube privately on desktop.
Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.
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Unleash Your Hardware. Unraid OS allows sophisticated media aficionados, gamers, and other intensive data-users to have ultimate control over their data, media, applications, and desktops, using just about any combination of hardware.
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ZFS for the Home to the Data Center.
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The open network attached storage solution. openmediavault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client and many more. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins.
Debian Live system / CD for sysadmins and texttool-users. Grml is a bootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian. Grml includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system administrators. Users don't have to install anything on fixed storage. Grml is especially well suited for administrative tasks like installation, deployment and system rescue.
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A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
Waydroid uses Linux namespaces (user, pid, uts, net, mount, ipc) to run a full Android system in a container and provide Android applications on any GNU/Linux-based platform.
Android in a Box. Run Android applications on any GNU/Linux operating system.
Darling is a translation layer that lets you run macOS software on Linux.
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Talos is a modern OS designed to be secure, immutable, and minimal. Its purpose is to host Kubernetes clusters, so it is tightly integrated with Kubernetes.
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The Kubernetes IDE The largest and most advanced Kubernetes platform in the world
Proxmox Virtual Environment is an open source server virtualization management solution based on QEMU/KVM and LXC. You can manage virtual machines, containers, highly available clusters, storage and networks with an integrated, easy-to-use web interface or via CLI. Proxmox VE code is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. The project is developed and maintained by Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH.
A reasonably secure operating system.
Qubes OS is a free and open-source, security-oriented operating system for single-user desktop computing. Qubes OS leverages Xen-based virtualization to allow for the creation and management of isolated compartments called qubes.
Settle your people on fertile land, gather resources and construct your village, as the commander of a Bronze Age civilization in the Near East.
Inspired by the rise and fall of historical civilizations, you must manage the delicate balance between food production and the maintenance of your army, for a decrease in food sources can push even the mightiest of civilizations to collapse.
Curlew is an easy to use, Free and Open-Source Multimedia converter for Linux.
Open-source tool for writers. Manuskript provides a rich environment to help writers create their first draft and then further refine and edit their masterpiece.
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