Best Free and Open Source Software
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Progress Sitefinity - LinuxLinks
Sitefinity CMS is a content management system (CMS) that you use to create, store, manage, and present content on your website.
Sitefinity is proprietary software and is not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives to Sitefinity.
GNOME Crosswords - crossword player and editor - LinuxLinks
GNOME Crosswords is a crossword player and editor.
This is free and open source software.
Blacklight - next-generation catalog - LinuxLinks
This is a Ruby on Rails “engine” that provides a basic discovery interface for searching an Apache Solr index, including fielded searching, applying and removing facet constraints, sorting and paginating through search results, and more. As an engine, Blacklight components are customizable via Rails (templating) mechanisms to meet the search and discovery needs of heterogeneous data, allowing different information displays for different types of objects.
This is free and open source software.
Vaults - keep files safe - LinuxLinks
Vaults lets you create encrypted vaults in which you can safely store files.
It currently uses gocryptfs and CryFS for encryption.
This is free and open source software.
Datcord - Discord client - LinuxLinks
Datcord is an open-source Discord client that respects your privacy.
Datcord is a specialized version of Firefox (the official client is Chromium-based). Datcord handles emoji rendering better than the normal Discord client.
Note that Discord can still track you even if you use Datcord. And the software is not under active development.
Cura - state-of-the-art slicer app - LinuxLinks
Cura is a state-of-the-art slicer app to prepare your 3D models for your 3D printer.
Cura works by slicing the user’s model file into layers and generating a printer-specific g-code. Once finished, the g-code can be sent to the printer for the manufacture of the physical object
Fine-tune your 3D model with 400+ settings for the best slicing and printing results.
This is free and open source software.
xTactics - risk like turn-based strategy game - LinuxLinks
xTactics is a highly configurable turn-based strategy game inspired by mechanics of the Risk board game.
The game is highly configurable to allow to adjust battle field and various game rules.
This is free software and placed in the public domain.