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Lutris
- RetroArch
- Lutris
- Add Epic Games Store
GameHub
- Humble Bundle (including Humble Trove)
- ScummVM
- WineWrap
- Steam
- itch.io
- GOG
- GameHub
- WineWrap
Tools for Robotics
- ArduPilot
- ROS - level device control, implementation of commonly used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management.
- ROS2 - of-the-art algorithms, and with powerful developer tools, ROS has what you need for your next robotics project. And it’s all open source.
- Robot Framework - readable keywords. Its capabilities can be extended by libraries implemented with Python or Java.
- Gazebo - quality graphics, and programmatic and graphical interfaces.
- Robotics System Toolbox
- Intel Robot DevKit
- Arduino - source platform used for building electronics projects. Arduino consists of both a physical programmable circuit board (often referred to as a microcontroller) and a piece of software, or IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that runs on your computer, used to write and upload computer code to the physical board.
- Light Detection and Ranging(LiDAR) - driving vehicles.
- ROS-Industrial
- AWS RoboMaker - managed, scalable infrastructure for simulation that customers use for multi-robot simulation and CI/CD integration with regression testing in simulation.
- Azure Kinect ROS Driver - us/services/kinect-dk/) to the [Robot Operating System (ROS)](http://www.ros.org/). Developers working with ROS can use this node to connect an Azure Kinect Developer Kit to an existing ROS installation.
- Azure Cognitive Services LUIS ROS Node
- ROS - level device control, implementation of commonly used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management.
- ArduPilot
- ROS-Industrial
- Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio - based programming environment for building robotics applications.
- The Robotics Library (RL) - contained C++ library for robot kinematics, motion planning and control. It covers mathematics, kinematics and dynamics, hardware abstraction, motion planning, collision detection, and visualization.RL runs on many different systems, including Linux, macOS, and Windows. It uses CMake as a build system and can be compiled with Clang, GCC, and Visual Studio.
- AutoGluon - to-machine-learning) that automates machine learning tasks enabling you to easily achieve strong predictive performance in your applications. With just a few lines of code, you can train and deploy high-accuracy deep learning models on tabular, image, and text data.
Linux Mint Software Center
- Debian
Essential Apps(depending on your workflow)
- Google Chrome browser
- Microsoft Edge browser
- Visual Studio Code
- Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft 365 with Office apps(formerly Office Online)
- Google Workspace (formerly G Suite)
- Zoom
- iCloud on Debian
- pCloud
- Jitsi Meet
- Cisco Webex Web App
- Slack
- Trello
- Skype
- Discord
- Spotify
- Apple Music(Web)
- Adobe Lighroom Online photo editor - in to app.
- Adobe Spark(Web) - in to app.
- Photopea
- Master PDF Editor - purpose functionality. With Master PDF Editor you can easily view, create and modify PDF documents.
- CrossOver Linux® - based applications to run on Linux, macOS, or Chrome OS.
- Reaper Audio editor
- Flameshot
- Nativefier - line tool to easily create a desktop app for any web site with minimal configuration. Apps are wrapped by [Electron](https://www.electronjs.org/) (which uses Chromium under the hood) in an OS executable (.app, .exe, etc) for use on Windows, macOS and Linux.
- WinApps for Linux
- Timeshift
- Stacer
- Nativefier - line tool to easily create a desktop app for any web site with minimal configuration. Apps are wrapped by [Electron](https://www.electronjs.org/) (which uses Chromium under the hood) in an OS executable (.app, .exe, etc) for use on Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Cisco Webex Web App
- Adobe Spark(Web) - in to app.
- Cisco Webex Web App
DevOps Learning Resources
- VMware Training and Certification Program
- DevOps Engineering on AWS from AWS Training
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional from A Cloud Guru
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert Cert.
- Introduction to Azure DevOps from A Cloud Guru
- Architecting with Google Compute Engine
- Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine in Google Cloud
- Cloudera Certification Program
- Salesforce Certification Program
- Salesforce Superbadges
- Red Hat Training and Certification Program
- Linux Foundation Training and Certification Program
- Linux Professional Institute(LPI) Training and Certification
- Learn DevOps with Online Courses and Lessons from edX
- Top DevOps Courses Online from Udemy
- Devops Courses from Coursera
- Flutter
- DevOps Engineering on AWS from AWS Training
App Outlet
- App Outlet
Flatpaks
- FlatHub
- FlatHub Forum
Snaps
- Snap Store
- Snapcraft Forum
AppImages
- AppImageHub
- AppImage Manager
- AppImage Forum
- AppImage Manager
- AppImageHub
Steam
- Get Steam
- Proton
ProtonDB
- ProtonDB
Game Streaming
- Geforce NOW - based web browser such as Brave, Vivaldi, and Microsoft Edge. Also, available as a Electron Desktop App in the [Snap store Geforce NOW](https://snapcraft.io/geforcenow).
- Moonlight Game Streaming
- Chiaki
- Xbox Project xCloud - based Xbox game-streaming technology **(currently in Beta)**. **Play games like Forza Horizon 4, Halo 5: Guardians, Gears of War 4, Sea of Thieves, Cuphead, Red Dead Redemption 2, and 100+ other games on your mobile device or Chrome web browser**. Microsoft's Xbox Project xCloud does require an [Xbox Game Pass Ultimate](https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/cloud-gaming) subscription.
Game Emulators
- RetroArch
- Dolphin
- Citra - source emulator for the Nintendo 3DS capable of playing many of your favorite games.
- yuzu - source emulator for the Nintendo Switch from the creators of Citra.
- MAME
- xemu
- DOSBox - source DOS emulator which primarily focuses on running DOS Games.
- yuzu - source emulator for the Nintendo Switch from the creators of Citra.
Performance Benchmarks
- Geekbench 5 - platform benchmark that measures your system's performance with the press of a button.
- UNIGINE Superposition
Wine
- WINE(Wine Is Not an Emulator) - compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.
- WINE(Wine Is Not an Emulator) - compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.
Game Engines
- Unity - platform game development platform. Use Unity to build high-quality 3D and 2D games, deploy them across mobile, desktop, VR/AR, consoles or the Web, and connect with loyal and enthusiastic players and customers.
- Unity Hub
- Unreal Engine 4 - time 3D creation tool. Continuously evolving to serve not only its original purpose as a state-of-the-art game engine, today it gives creators across industries the freedom and control to deliver cutting-edge content, interactive experiences, and immersive virtual worlds.
- Linux Game Development on Unreal Engine 4
- Godot Engine - packed, cross-platform game engine to create 2D and 3D games from a unified interface. It provides a comprehensive set of common tools, so that users can focus on making games without having to reinvent the wheel. Games can be exported in one click to a number of platforms, including the major desktop platforms (Linux, Mac OSX, Windows) as well as mobile (Android, iOS) and web-based (HTML5) platforms.
- If you would like to Donate to the Godot Project
- Blender
- If you would like to Donate to the Blender Project
- Unigine - platform game engine designed for development teams (C++/C# programmers, 3D artists) working on interactive 3D apps.
- GameMaker Studio 2
- Setting Up GameMaker Studio For Ubuntu
- Unity - platform game development platform. Use Unity to build high-quality 3D and 2D games, deploy them across mobile, desktop, VR/AR, consoles or the Web, and connect with loyal and enthusiastic players and customers.
- Unity Hub
- GameMaker Studio 2
- Unreal Engine 4 - time 3D creation tool. Continuously evolving to serve not only its original purpose as a state-of-the-art game engine, today it gives creators across industries the freedom and control to deliver cutting-edge content, interactive experiences, and immersive virtual worlds.
- Godot Engine - packed, cross-platform game engine to create 2D and 3D games from a unified interface. It provides a comprehensive set of common tools, so that users can focus on making games without having to reinvent the wheel. Games can be exported in one click to a number of platforms, including the major desktop platforms (Linux, Mac OSX, Windows) as well as mobile (Android, iOS) and web-based (HTML5) platforms.
Tools
- Panda3D - source and free for any purpose, including commercial ventures.
- Source 2 - Life: Alyx.
- Open Graphics Library(OpenGL) - accelerated rendering of 2D/3D vector graphics currently developed by the [Khronos Group](https://www.khronos.org/).
- Open Computing Language (OpenCL) - to-parallel-computing-zNrIS) of heterogeneous platforms consisting of CPUs, GPUs, and other hardware accelerators found in supercomputers, cloud servers, personal computers, mobile devices and embedded platforms.
- OpenGL Shading Language(GLSL) - style language, so it covers most of the features a user would expect with such a language. Such as control structures (for-loops, if-else statements, etc) exist in GLSL, including the switch statement.
- High Level Shading Language(HLSL) - like programmable shaders for the Direct3D pipeline. HLSL was first created with DirectX 9 to set up the programmable 3D pipeline.
- MoltenVK
- MoltenGL
- NVIDIA Omniverse - GPU, real-time simulation and collaboration platform for 3D production pipelines based on Pixar's Universal Scene Description and NVIDIA RTX.
- HGIG
- Three.js - browser JavaScript library and application programming interface used to create and display animated 3D computer graphics in a web browser using WebGL.
- Superpowers - time collaborative projects . You can use it solo like a regular offline game maker, or setup a password and let friends join in on your project through their Web browser.
- Privacy on Beam - to-end differential privacy solution built on [Apache Beam](https://beam.apache.org/documentation/). It is intended to be usable by all developers, regardless of their differential privacy expertise.
- PennyLane - platform Python library for [differentiable programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiable_programming) of quantum computers. By training a quantum computer the same way as a neural network.
- BoTorch
- PyTorch Geometric (PyG)
- Opacus
- PySyft - learning-collaborative.html), [Differential Privacy](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/ai-lab-differential-privacy), and Encrypted Computation (like [Multi-Party Computation (MPC)](https://multiparty.org) and [Homomorphic Encryption (HE)](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/homomorphic-encryption/) within the main Deep Learning frameworks like [PyTorch](https://pytorch.org/) and [TensorFlow](https://www.tensorflow.org/).
- TensorFlow Privacy
- PyDP
- Skorch - learn compatible neural network library that wraps PyTorch.
- Diffprivlib
- High Level Shading Language(HLSL) - like programmable shaders for the Direct3D pipeline. HLSL was first created with DirectX 9 to set up the programmable 3D pipeline.
- MoltenVK
- Vulkan - platform graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms. Vulkan is currently in development by the Khronos consortium.
Augmented Reality (AR) & Virtual Reality (VR)
- OpenVR Benchmark on Steam
- OpenHMD - mounted display) devices such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Sony PSVR, and others.
- openXR - performance access to Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) collectively known as XR—platforms and devices.
- Monado - start development of an open source XR ecosystem and provide the fundamental building blocks for device vendors to target the GNU/Linux platform.
- SteamVR for Linux
- OpenVR
- Libsurvive
- Simula - 638454156)).
Game Development Learning Resources
- Unreal Online Learning - on video courses and guided learning paths.
- Unreal Engine Authorized Training Program
- Unreal Engine for education
- Unreal Engine Training & Simulation
- Unity Certifications
- Game Design Online Courses from Udemy
- Game Design Online Courses from Skillshare
- Learn Game Design with Online Courses and Classes from edX
- Game Design Courses from Coursera
- Game Design and Development Specialization Course from Coursera
- Sosumi - Simple-KVM](https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM).
- Anbox - based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu, Debian Fedora, and openSUSE.
- WindowsGuestDrivers/Download Drivers - KVM
- GNOME Boxes
- Android Virtual Device (AVD)
- LineageOS - source operating system for various devices, based on the Android mobile platform.
- Anbox Cloud
- Genymotion
- Free
- H.264(AVC) - oriented and motion-compensated integer-DCT coding that defines multiple profiles (tools) and levels (max bitrates and resolutions) with support up to 8K.
- H.265(HEVC) - rate.
- FFmpeg
- HandBrake
- Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)
- OpenMAX™ - platform API that provides comprehensive streaming media codec and application portability by enabling accelerated multimedia components to be developed, integrated and programmed across multiple operating systems and silicon platforms.
- Blender - in video sequence editor allows you to perform basic actions like video cuts and splicing, as well as more complex tasks like video masking or color grading. The Video Editor includes: Live preview, luma waveform, chroma vectorscope and histogram displays. Audio mixing, syncing, scrubbing and waveform visualization.
- Kdenlive
- OpenShot - source video editing tool that's designed for users new in the editing environment. It has simple features such as a simple drag-and-drop function, it provides an easy-to-use and quick-to-learn user interface. The powerful video editor offers tons of efficient ways to cut and trim down your videos. You can freely utilize the unlimited tracks, video effects engine, title editor, 3D animations, slow motion, and time effects. It supports commonly used video codecs that are supported by FFmpeg like WebM (VP9), AVCHD (libx264), HEVC (libx265) and audio codecs like mp3 (libmp3lame) and aac (libfaac). The program can render MPEG4, ogv, Blu-ray and DVD video, and Full HD videos for uploading to the internet video websites like YouTube.
- Lightworks - linear video editing appluication for editing and mastering digital video used by the film industry. Its professional edition has been used for box office hits, such as Shutter Island, Pulp Fiction, and Mission Impossible. Intimidating user interface. Like professional video editors, such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Lightworks is rather complicated to use for new users.
- Shotcut - platform video editor. You can perform various actions such as video editing (including 4K video quality), add effects, create new movies, import most image files formats, export to almost any file format and much more.
- Olive - linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software.
- Natron
- OBS (Open Broadcaster Software)
- REAPER
- JACK Audio Connection Kit AKA JACK - time, low-latency connections for both audio and MIDI data between applications that implement its API. JACK can be configured to send audio data over a network to a "master" machine, which then outputs the audio to a physical device. This can be useful to mix audio from a number of "slave" computers without requiring additional cables or hardware mixers, and keeping the audio path digital for as long as possible.
- Bitwig Studio - linear workflows for sound design, recording, live performance, and more. Along with 90+ instruments, effects, and other creative tools. It is supported Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- PipeWire - latency, graph based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both pulseaudio and JACK. PipeWire was designed with a powerful security model that makes interacting with audio and video devices from containerized applications easy. Nodes in the graph can be implemented as separate processes, communicating with sockets and exchanging multimedia content using fd passing.
- Sonobus - quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.
- Avid Pro Tools - production software for songwriters, musicians, producers, and engineers.
- LMMS
- Ardour
- Audacity - to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Developed by a group of volunteers as open source and offered free of charge. Amazing support community.
- Glimpse - platform raster graphics editor based on the GNU Image Manipulation Program available for Linux, MacOS, and Windows. A great tool for making YouTube video thumbnails.
- Kubernetes.io
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - grade security and governance. Unite your development and operations teams on a single platform to rapidly build, deliver, and scale applications with confidence.
- Amazon EKS
- AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) - available Kubernetes applications that utilize AWS services.
- Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) - managed container orchestration service that can reduce the time and cost to build modern cloud native applications. Unlike most other vendors, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides Container Engine for Kubernetes as a free service that runs on higher-performance, lower-cost compute.
- KubeFlow
- MicroK8s - the-air updates for ultra-reliable operations. It is supported on Linux, Windows, and MacOS.
- Charmed Kubernetes - key, conformant Kubernetes platform, optimized for your multi-cloud environments developed by Canonical.
- Grafana Kubernetes App
- KubeEdge
- Lens
- kind
- Flux CD
- Getting Started with Vulkan
- Getting Started with Vulkan
- Odo
- Scrcpy
- Yabridge - bit and 64-bit Windows VST2 and VST3 plugins in a 64-bit Linux VST host as if they were native VST2 and VST3 plugins, with optional support for [plugin groups](https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge#plugin-groups) to enable inter-plugin communication for VST2 plugins and quick startup times.
- OpenShift Hive
- KubeInit
- OpenCore for Windows 10
- Helm
- Etcd - value store that provides a reliable way to store data that needs to be accessed by a distributed system or cluster of machines. Etcd is used as the backend for service discovery and stores cluster state and configuration for Kubernetes.
- Rook - managing, self-scaling, self-healing storage services. It automates the tasks of a storage administrator: deployment, bootstrapping, configuration, provisioning, scaling, upgrading, migration, disaster recovery, monitoring, and resource management.
- Unreal Engine for education
- Unreal Engine Training & Simulation
- Unreal Online Learning - on video courses and guided learning paths.
- Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) - managed container orchestration service that can reduce the time and cost to build modern cloud native applications. Unlike most other vendors, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides Container Engine for Kubernetes as a free service that runs on higher-performance, lower-cost compute.
- Container Storage Interface (CSI) - in.
- Thanos
- Kubespray - sigs/kubespray/blob/master/docs/aws.md), GCE, [Azure](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray/blob/master/docs/azure.md), [OpenStack](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray/blob/master/docs/openstack.md), [vSphere](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray/blob/master/docs/vsphere.md), [Packet](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray/blob/master/docs/packet.md) (bare metal), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Experimental), or Baremetal.
- OpenEBS - based tool to create stateful applications using Container Attached Storage.
- Kubernetes (K8s) - source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
- OKD - tenant deployment. OKD adds developer and operations-centric tools on top of Kubernetes to enable rapid application development, easy deployment and scaling, and long-term lifecycle maintenance for small and large teams.
- Knative - based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads. Knative takes care of the operational overhead details of networking, autoscaling (even to zero), and revision tracking.
ML frameworks & applications
- Anaconda
- OpenCV - time computer vision applications. The C++, Python, and Java interfaces support Linux, MacOS, Windows, iOS, and Android.
- TensorFlow - to-end open source platform for machine learning. It has a comprehensive, flexible ecosystem of tools, libraries and community resources that lets researchers push the state-of-the-art in ML and developers easily build and deploy ML powered applications.
- Keras - level neural networks API, written in Python and capable of running on top of TensorFlow, CNTK, or Theano.It was developed with a focus on enabling fast experimentation. It is capable of running on top of TensorFlow, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, R, Theano, or PlaidML.
- PyTorch
- Amazon SageMaker
- Azure Databricks - based big data analytics service designed for data science and data engineering. Azure Databricks, sets up your Apache Spark environment in minutes, autoscale, and collaborate on shared projects in an interactive workspace. Azure Databricks supports Python, Scala, R, Java, and SQL, as well as data science frameworks and libraries including TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn.
- Apache Airflow - source workflow management platform created by the community to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows. Install. Principles. Scalable. Airflow has a modular architecture and uses a message queue to orchestrate an arbitrary number of workers. Airflow is ready to scale to infinity.
- Open Neural Network Exchange(ONNX) - in operators and standard data types.
- Apache MXNet
- Scikit-Learn
- Weka - in tools for standard machine learning tasks, and additionally gives transparent access to well-known toolboxes such as scikit-learn, R, and Deeplearning4j.
- NVIDIA cuDNN - accelerated library of primitives for [deep neural networks](https://developer.nvidia.com/deep-learning). cuDNN provides highly tuned implementations for standard routines such as forward and backward convolution, pooling, normalization, and activation layers. cuDNN accelerates widely used deep learning frameworks, including [Caffe2](https://caffe2.ai/), [Chainer](https://chainer.org/), [Keras](https://keras.io/), [MATLAB](https://www.mathworks.com/solutions/deep-learning.html), [MxNet](https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/), [PyTorch](https://pytorch.org/), and [TensorFlow](https://www.tensorflow.org/).
- Jupyter Notebook - source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. Jupyter is used widely in industries that do data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, data visualization, data science, and machine learning.
- Apache PredictionIO
- BigDL
- Apache Spark™ MLflow
- MLflow Tracking
- MLflow Projects
- MLflow Models
- Model Registry
- Eclipse Deeplearning4J (DL4J) - based(Scala, Kotlin, Clojure, and Groovy) deep learning application. This means starting with the raw data, loading and preprocessing it from wherever and whatever format it is in to building and tuning a wide variety of simple and complex deep learning networks.
- Chainer - based deep learning framework aiming at flexibility. It provides automatic differentiation APIs based on the define-by-run approach (dynamic computational graphs) as well as object-oriented high-level APIs to build and train neural networks. It also supports CUDA/cuDNN using [CuPy](https://github.com/cupy/cupy) for high performance training and inference.
DevOps Tools
- Kata Operator
- K3s - constrained, remote locations or inside IoT appliances.
- Puppet
- Drone - compose, to define and execute Pipelines inside Docker containers.
- Travis CI
- Spinnaker - cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence.
- Rancher
- Rkt - native container engine for Linux. It is composable, secure, and built on standards.
- GitHub
- GitHub Codespaces
- GitHub Actions - us/azure/developer/github/github-actions) you can create workflows that you can set up in your repository to build, test, package, release and deploy to Azure.Learn more about all other integrations with Azure.
- GitLab - based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git-repository manager providing wiki, issue-tracking and CI/CD pipeline features, using an open-source license, developed by GitLab Inc.
- Jenkins - human part of the software development process, with continuous integration and facilitating technical aspects of continuous delivery.
- Bitbucket - based version control repository hosting service owned by Atlassian, for source code and development projects that use either Mercurial or Git revision control systems. Bitbucket offers both commercial plans and free accounts. It offers free accounts with an unlimited number of private repositories. Bitbucket integrates with other Atlassian software like Jira, HipChat, Confluence and Bamboo.
- Codecov
- Zuul-CI
- Artifactory - site replication and scalable.
- Selenium
- Cucumber
- JUnit
- Mocha
- Karma
- Jasmine - enabled platform, to not intrude on the application nor the IDE, and to have easy-to-read syntax.
- Consul
- Nomad - center aware cluster and application scheduler designed to support the modern datacenter with support for long-running services, batch jobs, and much more.
- Vault
- PowerShell/PowerShell Core - platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) automation and configuration tool/framework that works well with your existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data (e.g. JSON, CSV, XML, etc.), REST APIs, and object models. It includes a command-line shell, an associated scripting language and a framework for processing cmdlets.
- VMware vSphere - leading compute virtualization platform, and your first step to application modernization. It has been rearchitected with native Kubernetes to allow customers to modernize the 70 million+ workloads now running on vSphere.
- Microsoft Azure - managed data centers.
- Azure Functions
- Splunk - generated big data, via a Web-style interface.
- Prometheus - time metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using a HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting.
- Loki - scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be very cost effective and easy to operate. It does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream.
- ElasticSearch - capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is developed in Java.
- Logstash
- Kibana
- New Relic - based monitoring tool that fully supports the way DevOps teams work in the modern enterprise by streamlining your workflows with today's collaboration software and orchestration tools like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible.
- Nagios - software application that monitors systems, networks and infrastructure. Nagios offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications and services. It alerts users when things go wrong and alerts them a second time when the problem has been resolved.
- SonarQube - source platform developed by SonarSource for continuous inspection of code quality to perform automatic reviews with static analysis of code to detect bugs, code smells, and security vulnerabilities on 20+ programming languages.
- Jira
- Pivotal Tracker - time collaboration around a shared, prioritized backlog.
- Trello - based Kanban-style list-making application that gives you perspective over all your projects, at work and at home.
- Microsoft Teams
- Slack - based proprietary instant messaging platform developed by Slack Technologies.
- OpsGenie - based service for dev & ops teams, providing reliable alerts, on-call schedule management and escalations. OpsGenie integrates with monitoring tools & services, ensures the right people are notified.
- Pagerduty
- Veracode - class application security, seamlessly integrating agile security solutions for organizations around the globe. In addition to application security services and secure devops services, Veracode provides a full security assessment to ensure your website and applications are secure, and ensures full enterprise data protection.
- Apache Mesos
- OKD - tenant deployment. OKD adds developer and operations-centric tools on top of Kubernetes to enable rapid application development, easy deployment and scaling, and long-term lifecycle maintenance for small and large teams.
- Apache Hadoop - availability, the library itself is designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer, so delivering a highly-available service on top of a cluster of computers, each of which may be prone to failures.
- Azure DevOps - platform, scalable apps and services; Azure Pipelines Continuously build, test, and deploy to any platform and cloud; Azure Lab Services Set up labs for classrooms, trials, development and testing, and other scenarios.
- Kibana
- Red Hat OpenShift - term, enterprise support from one of the leading Kubernetes contributors and open source software companies.
- Bamboo
- Shippable
- Cloud Foundry
- AWS Lambda - driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of the Amazon Web Services. It is a computing service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the computing resources required by that code.
- Anthos - premises environments.
- AWS CodeBuild
- Circle CI
- Team City
- Maven
- Chef
- AWS CodeDeploy - premises servers. AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during application deployment, and handles the complexity of updating your applications.
- Traefik
- Ansible - source software provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool. It runs on many Unix-like systems, and can configure both Unix-like systems as well as Microsoft Windows.
- Octpus Deploy - premises or in the cloud.
- Salt - based, open-source software for event-driven IT automation, remote task execution, and configuration management. Supporting the "Infrastructure as Code" approach to data center system and network deployment and management, configuration automation, SecOps orchestration, vulnerability remediation, and hybrid cloud control.
- Terraform - source infrastructure as code software tool created by HashiCorp.It enables users to define and provision a datacenter infrastructure using a high-level configuration language known as Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL), or optionally JSON.
- Apache Spark - in modules for streaming, SQL, machine learning and graph processing.
- Gradle - source build-automation system that builds upon the concepts of Apache Ant and Apache Maven and introduces a Groovy-based domain-specific language instead of the XML form used by Apache Maven for declaring the project configuration.
- OpenStack - source software platform for cloud computing, mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API. OpenStack works with popular enterprise and open source technologies making it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructure.
- AWS ECS - performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS. Amazon ECS eliminates the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software, manage and scale a cluster of virtual machines, or schedule containers on those virtual machines.
- CFEngine - source configuration management system, written by Mark Burgess.Its primary function is to provide automated configuration and maintenance of large-scale computer systems, including the unified management of servers, desktops, consumer and industrial devices, embedded networked devices, mobile smartphones, and tablet computers.
- Docker - level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. Containers are isolated from one another and bundle their own software, libraries and configuration files; they can communicate with each other through well-defined channels. All containers are run by a single operating-system kernel and are thus more lightweight than virtual machines.
Kubernetes Learning Resources
- Getting Kubernetes Certifications
- Getting started with Kubernetes on AWS
- Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure
- Intro to Azure Kubernetes Service
- Getting started with Google Cloud
- Getting started with Kubernetes on Red Hat
- Getting started with Kubernetes on IBM
- YAML basics in Kubernetes
- Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Deploy a model to an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster
- Simplify Machine Learning Inference on Kubernetes with Amazon SageMaker Operators
- Running Apache Spark on Kubernetes
- Kubernetes Across VMware vRealize Automation
- VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
- All the Ways VMware Tanzu Works with AWS
- VMware Tanzu Education
- Using Ansible in a Cloud-Native Kubernetes Environment
- Managing Kubernetes (K8s) objects with Ansible
- Setting up a Kubernetes cluster using Vagrant and Ansible
- Running MongoDB with Kubernetes
- Kubernetes Fluentd
- Understanding the new GitLab Kubernetes Agent
- Kubernetes Contributors
- KubeAcademy from VMware
- Docker and Kubernetes
Online ML Learning Resources
- Machine Learning by Stanford University from Coursera
- Machine Learning Courses Online from Coursera
- Machine Learning Courses Online from Udemy
- Learn Machine Learning with Online Courses and Classes from edX
Robotics Learning Resources
- Free Online AI & Robotics Courses
- Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy
- RIA Robotic Integrator Certification Program
- AWS RoboMaker – Develop, Test, Deploy, and Manage Intelligent Robotics Apps
- Microsoft AI School
- Language Understanding (LUIS) for Azure Cognitive Services
- Azure VM templates to bootstrap ROS and ROS 2 environments
- Google Robotics Research
- Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) - industry collaboration that brings together leaders to improve the security of open source software by building a broader community, targeted initiatives, and best practices. The OpenSSF brings together open source security initiatives under one foundation to accelerate work through cross-industry support. Along with the Core Infrastructure Initiative and the Open Source Security Coalition, and will include new working groups that address vulnerability disclosures, security tooling and more.
- Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy
- Learn Robotics with Online Courses and Classes from edX
- RIA Robotic Integrator Certification Program
- Azure VM templates to bootstrap ROS and ROS 2 environments
- Top Robotics Courses Online from Udemy
- AWS RoboMaker – Develop, Test, Deploy, and Manage Intelligent Robotics Apps
- Free Online AI & Robotics Courses
- Microsoft AI School
- AWS RoboMaker – Develop, Test, Deploy, and Manage Intelligent Robotics Apps
- Learn Robotics with Online Courses and Classes from edX
- RIA Robotic Integrator Certification Program
Security Standards, Frameworks and Benchmarks
- STIGs Benchmarks - Security Technical Implementation Guides
- CIS Benchmarks - CIS Center for Internet Security
- NIST - Current FIPS
- ISO Standards Catalogue
- Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC)
- ISO 22301 - practice framework for implementing an optimised BCMS (business continuity management system).
- ISO27001 - effectively.
- ISO 27701
- EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
- CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act)
- Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS)
- SOC 2
- NIST CSF
Security Tools
- AppArmor - to-use Linux application security system. AppArmor proactively protects the operating system and applications from external or internal threats, even zero-day attacks, by enforcing good behavior and preventing both known and unknown application flaws from being exploited. AppArmor supplements the traditional Unix discretionary access control (DAC) model by providing mandatory access control (MAC). It has been included in the mainline Linux kernel since version 2.6.36 and its development has been supported by Canonical since 2009.
- Control Groups(Cgroups) - defined groups of tasks (processes) running on a system.
- Libgcrypt
- Kali Linux - class information security training and penetration testing services.
- Pi-hole - side software, intended for use on a private network. It is designed for use on embedded devices with network capability, such as the Raspberry Pi, but it can be used on other machines running Linux and cloud implementations.
- Aircrack-ng - PSK cracker and analysis tool for 802.11 wireless LANs. It works with any wireless network interface controller whose driver supports raw monitoring mode and can sniff 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g traffic.
- Burp Suite
- KernelCI - based open source distributed test automation system focused on upstream kernel development. The primary goal of KernelCI is to use an open testing philosophy to ensure the quality, stability and long-term maintenance of the Linux kernel.
- Continuous Kernel Integration project
- eBPF - rich without continuing to add additional layers of complexity to the system.
- Cilium
- Istio
- Scapy - based interactive packet manipulation program & library.
- OSSEC - source host-based intrusion detection system. It performs log analysis, integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, rootkit detection, time-based alerting, and active response.
- Metasploit Project
- Nmap
- pfSense
- Snort - source, free and lightweight network intrusion detection system (NIDS) software for Linux and Windows to detect emerging threats.
- Wireshark - source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education.
- OpenSCAP
- OWASP - available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the field of web application security.
- Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language
- ClamAV
Open Source Security Learning Resources
- Microsoft Open Source Software Security
- Cloudflare Open Source Security
- The Seven Properties of Highly Secure Devices
- How Layer 7 of the Internet Works
- The 7 Kinds of Security
- The Libgcrypt Reference Manual
- The Open Web Application Security Project(OWASP) Foundation Top 10
- Best Practices for Using Open Source Code from The Linux Foundation
- RSA Certification Program
- Certified Cloud Security Professional(CCSP) Certification
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certification
- Security Training Certifications and Courses from Udemy
- Security Training Certifications and Courses from Coursera
- Security Certifications Training from Pluarlsight
- Statistical Noise
- Laplacian Noise - distributed noise to a function.
- Check Point Certified Security Master (CCSM) Certification
Privacy Learning Resources
- Differentially-Private Stochastic Gradient Descent(DP-SGD)
- Apple's Differential Privacy Overview
- Learning with Privacy at Scale with Apple Machine Learning
- Microsoft Research Differential Privacy Overview
- Responsible Machine Learning with Microsoft Azure
- Responsible AI Resources with Microsoft AI
- Preserve data privacy by using differential privacy and the SmartNoise package
- Open Differential Privacy(OpenDP) Initiative by Microsoft and Harvard
- Computing Private Statistics with Privacy on Beam from Google Codelabs
- Introducing TensorFlow Privacy: Learning with Differential Privacy for Training Data
- Learning Differential Privacy from Harvard University Privacy Tools Project
- Harvard University Privacy Tools Project Courses & Educational Materials
- The Weaknesses of Differential Privacy course on Coursera
- The Differential Privacy of Bayesian Inference
- Simultaneous private learning of multiple concepts
- The Complexity of Computing the Optimal Composition of Differential Privacy
- Order revealing encryption and the hardness of private learning
- SAP HANA data anonymization using SAP Software Solutions
- SAP HANA Security using their In-Memory Database
- DEFCON Differential Privacy Training Launch
- Secure and Private AI course on Udacity
- Differential Privacy - Security and Privacy for Big Data - Part 1 course on Coursera
- Differential Privacy - Security and Privacy for Big Data - Part 2 course on Coursera
- Certified Ethical Emerging Technologist Professional Certificate course on Coursera
Cloud Native Learning Resources
- CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
- Build Cloud-Native applications in Microsoft Azure
- Cloud-Native application development for Google Cloud
- Cloud-Native development for Amazon Web Services
- Cloud Foundry Developer Training and Certification Program
- Cloud-Native Architecture Course on Pluralsight
- Cloud Native Applications with VMware Tanzu
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation Training and Certification Program
- AWS Fundamentals: Going Cloud-Native on Coursera
- Developing Cloud-Native Apps w/ Microservices Architectures course on Udemy
- How load balancing works for cloud native applications with Azure Application Gateway on Linkedin Learning
- Developing Cloud Native Applications course on edX
- Cloud Native courses from IBM
DevOps
- Spring Boot - source micro framework maintained by Pivotal, which was acquired by VMware in 2019. It provides Java developers with a platform to get started with an auto configurable production-grade Spring application.
- BOSH
- Amazon web service(AWS) - to-use and cost-effective cloud computing solutions. The AWS platform is developed with a combination of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings.
- Google Cloud Platform - leading tools(data management, hybrid & multi-cloud, and AI & ML) with Cloud Storage for enhanced support with everything from security and data transfer, to data backup and archive. Expand all . Backup, archival, and disaster recovery. Along with File systems and gateways.
- BOSH
Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
- Prow - ops via /foo style commands, and automatic PR merging. Prow has a microservice architecture implemented as a collection of container images that run as Kubernetes deployments.
Virtualization
- Hyper-V
- KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) - V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko.
- QEMU
- oVirt - source distributed virtualization solution, designed to manage your entire enterprise infrastructure. oVirt uses the trusted KVM hypervisor and is built upon several other community projects, including libvirt, Gluster, PatternFly, and Ansible.Founded by Red Hat as a community project on which Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is based allowing for centralized management of virtual machines, compute, storage and networking resources, from an easy-to-use web-based front-end with platform independent access.
- VMware Workstation
- VirtualBox
- Packer
- Vagrant - to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases production parity, and makes the "works on my machine" excuse a relic of the past. It provides easy to configure, reproducible, and portable work environments built on top of industry-standard technology and controlled by a single consistent workflow to help maximize the productivity and flexibility of you and your team.
Flutter Learning Resources
- Flutter Gems
- Dart - source, scalable programming language, with robust libraries and runtimes, for building web, server, and mobile apps using the Flutter framework.
- Flutter documentation
- Style Guide for Flutter
- Creating your first Flutter app
- Build and release an Android app using Flutter
- Flutter Tools & techniques
- Dart and Flutter: The Complete Developer's Guide on Udemy
- Creating an Interactive Story with Flutter on Coursera
- Flutter for Beginners course on Pluralsight
- Flutter Online Training Courses on LinkedIn Learning
- The Complete Flutter App Development Bootcamp with Dart by App Brewery
- Adding Firebase to your Flutter app
- Using Firebase and Firestore with Flutter
- Fuchsia Project
- Getting Started with Fuchsia
- Fuchsia Reference
- Contributing to Fuchsia
Flutter Tools
- Firebase - as-a-Service (BaaS) app development platform that provides hosted backend services such as a realtime database, cloud storage, authentication, crash reporting, machine learning, remote configuration, and hosting for your static files.
- FlutterFire - plugins/) that enable Flutter apps to use [Firebase](https://firebase.google.com/) services. You can follow an example that shows how to use these plugins in the [Firebase for Flutter](https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/flutter-firebase/index.html#0) codelab.
- Appwrite - to-end backend server for Web, Mobile, and Flutter developers that is packaged as a set of Docker containers for easy deployment.
- Fluro
Networking Learning Resources
- Citrix Certified Associate – Networking(CCA-N)
- Citrix Certified Professional – Virtualization(CCP-V)
- Networking courses and specializations from Coursera
- Network & Security Courses from Udemy
- Network & Security Courses from edX
- Cybersecurity Training and Courses from IBM Skills
- Cybersecurity Courses and Certifications by Offensive Security
- Juniper Networks Certification Program Enterprise (JNCP)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer
- Linux Professional Institute LPIC-3 Enterprise Security Certification
- The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Security: Linux
- Cisco Security Certifications
- Certified Information Security Manager(CISM)
- Wireshark Certified Network Analyst (WCNA)
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty Certification
- CCNP Routing and Switching
Protocols
- JSON Web Token (JWT) - safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties. The claims in a JWT are encoded as a JSON object that is digitally signed using JSON Web Signature (JWS).
- OAuth 2.0 - party applications to access the user account.
Database Learning Resources
- SQL
- SQL Tutorial by W3Schools
- Learn SQL Skills Online from Coursera
- SQL Courses Online from Udemy
- SQL Online Training Courses from LinkedIn Learning
- Learn SQL For Free from Codecademy
- GitLab's SQL Style Guide
- OracleDB SQL Style Guide Basics
- Tableau CRM: BI Software and Tools
- Databases on AWS
- Best Practices and Recommendations for SQL Server Clustering in AWS EC2.
- Connecting from Google Kubernetes Engine to a Cloud SQL instance.
- Educational Microsoft Azure SQL resources
- MySQL Certifications
- SQL vs. NoSQL Databases: What's the Difference?
- What is NoSQL?
- Tableau CRM: BI Software and Tools
Databases and Tools
- Azure SQL Database - powered and automated features that optimize performance and durability for you. Serverless compute and Hyperscale storage options automatically scale resources on demand, so you can focus on building new applications without worrying about storage size or resource management.
- Azure SQL Managed Instance - premises applications to the cloud with very few application and database changes. Managed instance has split compute and storage components.
- Azure Synapse Analytics
- MSSQL for Visual Studio Code
- SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
- Bulk Copy Program - line tool that comes with Microsoft SQL Server. BCP, allows you to import and export large amounts of data in and out of SQL Server databases quickly snd efficeiently.
- SQL Server Migration Assistant
- SQL Server Integration Services - level data integration and data transformations solutions. Use Integration Services to solve complex business problems by copying or downloading files, loading data warehouses, cleansing and mining data, and managing SQL Server objects and data.
- SQL Server Business Intelligence(BI)
- Tableau - releases/press-release-details/2019/Salesforce-Completes-Acquisition-of-Tableau/default.aspx).
- DataGrip - sensitive code completion, helping you to write SQL code faster. Completion is aware of the tables structure, foreign keys, and even database objects created in code you're editing.
- RStudio - highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, and tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management.
- MySQL - native applications using the world's most popular open source database.
- PostgreSQL - relational database system with over 30 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance.
- Amazon DynamoDB - value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It is a fully managed, multiregion, multimaster, durable database with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications.
- FoundationDB - value store and employs ACID transactions for all operations. It is especially well-suited for read/write workloads but also has excellent performance for write-intensive workloads. FoundationDB was acquired by [Apple in 2015](https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/apple-acquires-durable-database-company-foundationdb/).
- CouchbaseDB - model NoSQL document-oriented database](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-model_database). It creates a key-value store with managed cache for sub-millisecond data operations, with purpose-built indexers for efficient queries and a powerful query engine for executing SQL queries.
- IBM DB2 - empowered capabilities designed to help you manage both structured and unstructured data on premises as well as in private and public cloud environments. Db2 is built on an intelligent common SQL engine designed for scalability and flexibility.
- MongoDB - like documents.
- OracleDB - critical data with the highest availability, reliability, and security.
- MariaDB - critical applications.
- SQLite - language library that implements a small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database engine.SQLite is the most used database engine in the world. SQLite is built into all mobile phones and most computers and comes bundled inside countless other applications that people use every day.
- SQLite Database Browser
- dbWatch - premise, hybrid/cloud database environments.
- Cosmos DB Profiler - time visual debugger allowing a development team to gain valuable insight and perspective into their usage of Cosmos DB database. It identifies over a dozen suspicious behaviors from your application’s interaction with Cosmos DB.
- Adminer
- DBeaver
- DbVisualizer
- AppDynamics Database - Volume Production Environment.
- Toad - in expertise. This SQL management tool resolve issues, manage change and promote the highest levels of code quality for both relational and non-relational databases.
- Lepide SQL Server - to-use, graphical user interface.
- Sequel Pro
Advanced Topics
- DigitalOcean
- How To Set Up Multi-Factor Authentication for SSH on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Configure Nginx as a Web Server and Reverse Proxy for Apache on One Ubuntu 20.04 Server
- How To Install and Configure Postfix on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Install and Use SQLite on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Deploy a React Application with Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04
- How to Optimize WordPress on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Acquire a Let's Encrypt Certificate Using DNS Validation with certbot-dns-digitalocean on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Build a Slackbot in Python on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Back Up, Restore, and Migrate a MongoDB Database on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Set Up an Ubuntu 20.04 Server on a DigitalOcean Droplet
- How To Set Up Physical Streaming Replication with PostgreSQL 12 on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Install and Use Docker Compose on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Remotely Access GUI Applications Using Docker and Caddy on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Install MySQL on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Set Up Mattermost on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Set Up a Remote Desktop with X2Go on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Install and Configure Drone on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate for Apache in Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Install the Django Web Framework on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Install Jenkins on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Use Traefik v2 as a Reverse Proxy for Docker Containers on Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Sandbox Processes With Systemd On Ubuntu 20.04
- How To Host a Website Using Cloudflare and Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04
Graphics Performance
- GreenWithEnvy (GWE)
- CoreCtrl
Winetricks
- Winetricks

Programming Languages

Python 5 C++ 3 C 2 Vala 2 Shell 2 JavaScript 1 Go 1 Haskell 1 Jupyter Notebook 1 TypeScript 1

Linux-Mint-Guide

Lutris

GameHub

Tools for Robotics

Linux Mint Software Center

Essential Apps(depending on your workflow)

DevOps Learning Resources

App Outlet

Flatpaks

Snaps

AppImages

Steam

ProtonDB

Game Streaming

Game Emulators

Performance Benchmarks

Wine

Game Engines

Tools

Augmented Reality (AR) & Virtual Reality (VR)

Game Development Learning Resources

ML frameworks & applications

DevOps Tools

Kubernetes Learning Resources

Online ML Learning Resources

Robotics Learning Resources

Security Standards, Frameworks and Benchmarks

Security Tools

Open Source Security Learning Resources

Privacy Learning Resources

Cloud Native Learning Resources

DevOps

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

Virtualization

Flutter Learning Resources

Flutter Tools

Networking Learning Resources

Protocols

Database Learning Resources

Databases and Tools

Advanced Topics

Graphics Performance

Winetricks