Ecosyste.ms: Awesome

An open API service indexing awesome lists of open source software.

Awesome Lists | Featured Topics | Projects

awesome-free-software

Curated list of free as in freedom software
https://github.com/Horhorist/awesome-free-software

Last synced: about 6 hours ago
JSON representation

  • Hardware

    • Companies

      • Vikings - Hosting company powered by Libreboot firmware, libre software, and green energy that also sells hardware.
      • Aleph Objects - Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certified 3D printer built with libre hardware and software.
      • Libiquity - Designs and develops embedded software and firmware systems.
      • Purism - Privacy, security, and freedom focused computers and software.
      • Raptor Computing Systems - Desktops, motherboards, and other parts utilizing the IBM POWER9 processor and OpenBMC firmware.
      • Technoethical - Laptops, adapters, and mobile devices compatible with free operating systems.
      • ThinkPenguin - Modern laptops, desktops, and printers that contain no proprietary software.

    • Hardware Resources

      • disaster.radio - Off-grid, solar-powered, long-range mesh network built on free software and affordable, open hardware.
      • h-node - Database of hardware that works with a fully free operating system.
      • Linux Preloaded - Hand-picked list of vendors from many regions that sell computers preinstalled with free software.

  • Software

    • Audio

      • Ardour - Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).
      • Libre.fm - Stream, download, remix, and share music for free.
      • LMMS - Complete digital audio workstation.
      • Nuclear Music Player - Streaming music player that finds music from free sources automatically.
      • OBS Studio - A free and open-source software for live streaming and video recording.

    • Command Line Tools

      • asciinema - Terminal session recorder.
      • ranger - Minimal, lightweight, and aesthetically pleasing file explorer for GNU/Linux. It runs in the terminal window, so it fits in well with window managers such as i3. vi key bindings allow for quick operations to be performed, including rename and delete.
      • GNU stow - GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in the same place.

    • Communication

      • Discord - Discord is a VoIP and instant messaging social platform.
      • Conversations - XMPP/Jabber client for Android.
      • Gajim - XMPP/Jabber client for desktop.
      • Jitsi Meet - Secure video conferencing and desktop sharing using WebRTC.
      • Mail-in-a-Box - Easy-to-deploy mail server package for cloud computers.
      • Matrix - Open standard for decentralised, persistent, and interoperable communications.
      • Mattermost - Open source, private cloud alternative to Slack.
      • Ring - Telephone, teleconferencing, and media sharing through a distributed service.
      • Signal - Private messaging and calling for desktop, Android, and iOS.
      • Tox - Encrypted and distributed messaging platform with voice, video, and screen sharing.

    • File Management

    • File Sharing

      • qBittorrent - Easy to use BitTorrent client.
      • WeTransfer - A file transfer service that allows you to quickly and easily share large files.
      • MediaFire - A cloud storage service that allows you to upload and share files.
      • Mega - An encrypted cloud storage and file sharing service.
      • Sync.com - A secure cloud storage service that allows you to upload and share files while encrypting them.

    • Graphics

      • Blender - 3D creation suite for modeling, simulation, and animation.
      • ExifCleaner - GUI app to remove exif metadata from images and videos with simple drag and drop.

    • Security Software

      • Keepass - A free, open-source password manager that securely stores passwords and sensitive information in an encrypted database.
      • ZAP - A popular, free security tool maintained by an international team of volunteers.
      • NMAP - Nmap is a free and open-source tool used for network security scanning.

    • Office

      • LibreOffice - Office suite with word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation programs.
      • Zathura - Highly customizable and functional document viewer. It provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.

    • Operating Systems

      • Debian - One of the earliest UNIX-like operating systems with a commitment to keeping nonfree software out of its system.
      • PureOS - FSF endorsed derivative of Debian.
      • LineageOS - Android distribution for phones and tablets and successor of CyanogenMod.
      • Kali Linux - Kali Linux is an open-source, Debian-based Linux distribution geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security Research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering.

    • Other

      • OpenMapTiles - Set of open-source tools for self-hosting of OpenStreetMap maps in more than 50 languages. It provides both raster as well as vector tiles, WMS and WMTS services for GIS programs, support for JavaScript viewers and mobile SDK.
      • ZeroNet - Decentralized websites using Bitcoin cryptography and the BitTorrent network.
      • Simple Mobile Tools - Android apps with customizable widgets, without annoying ads and unnecessary permissions.

    • Screencasting

      • ShareX - Screen capture, file sharing and productivity tool.

    • Text Editors

      • Emacs - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
      • GNU nano - Simple text editor for the command line.
      • vim - Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient.
      • Notepad++ - Extensible text and source code editor.

    • Utilities

      • Search Deflector - A small program that redirects searches made from the Windows Start Menu or Cortana to whatever browser and search engine you prefer.
      • Wireshark - Packet analyzer for network troubleshooting and analysis.

    • Video

      • Kodi - Home Theater software and entertainment hub.
      • VLC - Multimedia player that supports a variety of audio and video formats.
      • MPV - Customizable multimedia player with scripting support.

    • Virtualization

      • VirtualBox - Feature rich virtualization tools with support for many operating systems.
      • QEMU - QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

    • Web Applications

      • Dnote - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and web interface.
      • Ghost - Hackable platform for building and running online publications.
      • Gogs - Lightweight, cross-platform, self-hosted Git service
      • Healthchecks - Cron job monitoring service.
      • Inventaire - Share books with friends and communities.
      • Lobsters - Link aggregation and discussion with downvote explanations.
      • Mastodon - Decentralized social network server.
      • MetaGer - Private search engine created by a non-profit that uses green electricity for its servers.
      • Neocities - GeoCities for the modern world.
      • NotABug.org - Collaboration platform for freely licensed projects.
      • Phabricator - Code management platform (similar to GitLab) built with PHP.
      • Wallabag - Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.
      • WordPress - Blog publishing platform and content management system.
      • Misskey - Misskey is an open source, decentralized social media platform that's free forever!

    • Web Servers

      • Apache HTTP Server - Secure, efficient, and extensible web server.
      • lighttpd - Optimized for speed-critical environments while remaining standards-compliant, secure and flexible.
      • nginx - HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic TCP/UDP proxy server.

  • Resources

Categories
Software 67 Resources 33 Hardware 10 License 1
Sub Categories
Organizations 15 Web Applications 14 Communication 10 Companies 7 Talks 6 Audio 5 File Sharing 5 Operating Systems 4 Text Editors 4 Discovery 3 Video 3 Hardware Resources 3 Web Servers 3 Security Software 3 Other 3 Command Line Tools 3 Office 2 Licensing 2 Utilities 2 Events 2 Documentaries 2 Virtualization 2 Graphics 2 Articles 1 Screencasting 1 Blogs 1 People 1 Businesses 1 File Management 1