Best Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 27, 2024

• 8 Best Free and Open Source Self-Hosted Pastebin Alternatives - LinuxLinks

  A pastebin or text storage site is a type of online content-hosting service where users can store plain text (e.g. source code snippets for code review).

  Pastebins developed in the late 1990s to support IRC chatrooms dedicated to computing, where users naturally need to share large blocks of computer input or output in a line-oriented medium

  Pastebins are popular with developers for a number of reasons including support for syntax highlighting, temporary storage, ease of use, as well as anonymity. They can also store configuration information.

  It’s worth noting that pastebins are not only useful for developers. Anyone can use a pastebin to paste and share any type of text.

  This article focuses on the finest self-hosted pastebin tools. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here.

• power-profiles-daemon - makes power profiles handling available over D-Bus - LinuxLinks

  GNOME’s Settings and shell both include interfaces to select the current mode, but they are also expected to adjust the behaviour of the desktop depending on the mode, such as turning the screen off after inaction more aggressively when in power-saver mode.

  The power-profiles-daemon project was created to help provide a solution for two separate use cases, for desktops, laptops, and other devices running a “traditional Linux desktop”.

  The first one is a “Low Power” mode, that users could toggle themselves, or have the system toggle for them, with the intent to save battery. Mobile devices running iOS and Android have had a similar feature available to end-users and application developers alike.

  The second use case was to allow a “Performance” mode on systems where the hardware maker would provide and design such a mode. The idea is that the Linux kernel would provide a way to access this mode which usually only exists as a configuration option in some machines’ “UEFI Setup” screen.

  This is free and open source software.

• wpwmm4 - generate static web pages - LinuxLinks

  wpwmm4 — Web Page With Make and M4 — is software which lets you generate static web pages.

  This is free and open source software.

• Portmaster - application firewall that does the heavy lifting - LinuxLinks

  Portmaster is an application firewall that does the heavy lifting for you. Restore privacy and take back control over all your computer’s network activity.

  Portmaster integrates into network stack using nfqueue on Linux.

  This is free and open source software.

• Frozen-Flask - freezes a Flask application into a set of static files - LinuxLinks

  Frozen-Flask freezes a Flask application into a set of static files. The result can be hosted without any server-side software other than a traditional web server.

  This is free and open source software.