Best Free and Open Source Software
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Salesforce Heroku - LinuxLinks
Heroku is a cloud platform that lets companies build, deliver, monitor and scale apps.
Heroku is a proprietary platform and is not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
GNU Radio is a radio ecosystem - LinuxLinks
It can be used with readily-available low-cost external RF hardware to create software-defined radios, or without hardware in a simulation-like environment. It is widely used in research, industry, academia, government, and hobbyist environments to support both wireless communications research and real-world radio systems.
This is free and open source software.
Font Viewer - view and install fonts - LinuxLinks
Font Viewer is software that lets you view and install fonts on a Linux system and install fonts from Google Fonts.
This is free and open source software.
Backrest - web UI and orchestrator for restic backup - LinuxLinks
By building on restic, Backrest leverages its mature, fast, reliable, and secure backup capabilities while adding an intuitive interface.
Built with Go, Backrest is distributed as a standalone, lightweight binary with restic as its sole dependency. It can securely create new repositories or manage existing ones. Once storage is configured, the WebUI handles most operations, while still allowing direct access to the powerful restic CLI for advanced operations when needed.
This is free and open source software.
Taichi Lang - productive, portable, and performant GPU programming - LinuxLinks
The language has broad applications spanning real-time physical simulation, numerical computation, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, vision and robotics, visual effects in films and games, general-purpose computing, and much more.
This is free and open source software.
AbracaDABra - DAB and DAB+ Software Defined Radio (SDR) application - LinuxLinks
Abraca DAB radio is a DAB and DAB+ Software Defined Radio (SDR) application.
It works with cheap RTL-SDR (RTL2832U) USB sticks but also with Airspy devices, SDRplay devices and with many devices supported by SoapySDR. The application is based on the Qt6 cross-platform software development framework and can run on any platform supported by Qt6.
This is free and open source software.