Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
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Machine Learning in Linux: DiffRhythm - AI song generation - LinuxLinks
Our Machine Learning in Linux series focuses on apps that make it easy to experiment with machine learning. All the apps covered in the series can be self-hosted.
DiffRhythm is billed as a blazingly fast and embarrassingly simple end-to-end full-length song generation with latent diffusion.
This is free and open source software written in Python.
6 Best Free and Open Source Linux Console Hex Editors - LinuxLinks
If you use a text editor to open a binary file, you will see large amounts of incomprehensible information, seemingly random accented characters, and long lines overflowing with text. Editing or saving a binary file in a text editor will corrupt the file.
We feature our recommended console hex editors. They are all free and open source software.
Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Salesforce's Products - LinuxLinks
In 2023 Salesforce moved 200,000 systems (its entire software estate) to Red Hat. They previously used CentOS Linux 7. The company does develop Salesforce CLI, a command line interface that simplifies development and build automation when working with your Salesforce org. While this is cross-platform open source software (and runs under Linux), the vast majority of their products are published under a proprietary license. From a Linux perspective, their biggest products are the proprietary Tableau and Slack.
What if you are looking to move away from proprietary software. In this series we showcase open source alternatives to products from Salesforce.
Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Citrix's Products - LinuxLinks
What if you are looking to move away from proprietary software. In this series we showcase open source alternatives to products from Citrix.
This is a new series. Bear with us as we compile additional roundups.
Ucto - advanced rule-based unicode-aware tokenizer - LinuxLinks
Ucto comes with tokenisation rules for several languages and can be easily extended to suit other languages. It has been incorporated for tokenizing Dutch text in Frog, our Dutch morpho-syntactic processor.
This is free and open source software.
pdnsd - DNS server - LinuxLinks
pdnsd is a DNS server designed for local caching of DNS information.
Correctly configured, it can significantly increase browsing speed on a broadband connection. Compared to BIND or dnsmasq it can remember its cache after a reboot; “p” stands for persistent.
This is free and open source software.
typobuster - lightweight text editor - LinuxLinks
typobuster is a simplified text editor with a wide selection of transformations and automatic correction of common typos.
typobuster is supposed to focus on plain text and contain the tools that an average user needs.
This is free and open source software.
Densify - compress PDF files using Ghostscript - LinuxLinks
Densify is a GUI program that simplifies compressing PDF files with Ghostscript.
This is free and open source software.