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luong-komorebi.github.io
Awesome Linux Software is a Linux, macOS, BSD, or Unix resource for tools, documentation, communities, or system workflows.
github.com
This is a GitHub repository maintained by RunaCapital that contains an awesome list of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS products. It is curated to provide users with open-source replacements for common commercial software offerings.
cesdb.com
CESDb is the Civil Engineering Software Database, a site founded by engineers that lists free, trial or shareware civil engineering software for engineers, researchers and academics. It is described as currently listing 596 programs under 12 categories, with descriptions, screenshots and manuals where available. Programs can be downloaded for PC, Mac, Linux and other operating systems, and software reviews are provided.
daltonlens.org
DaltonLens is a project offering software and technical posts about color blindness, aiming to simplify the life of color blind people with utility software and a technical blog. Software includes a desktop utility for macOS, Windows and Linux and an online color blindness simulator. Development includes DaltonLens-Python and libDaltonLens.
devin.ai
Devin is an AI coding agent and software engineer that helps developers build better software faster. It runs in the cloud or on a machine, tests in its own browser, and works from problem to merged pull request. Plans include Free, Pro, Max, Teams, and Enterprise.
filepuma.com
FilePuma is a software download site that offers free downloads of the latest software. Listings are organized into categories such as security, browsers, communications, developer tools, graphics design, utilities, and compression and backup.
flox.dev
Flox provides platform teams with one declared environment that stays reproducible for every developer and agent, from first commit through production. It resolves a manifest to one lock so machines, CI, and agents run the same software. Security features include a hash-pinned software bill of materials.
forgejo.org
Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge for simple software project management. The project describes it as easy to install and low maintenance, and the site presents it as a self-hosted alternative to GitHub with a focus on security, scaling, federation and privacy.
fossies.org
Fossies is a curated repository of selected free and open source software focused mainly on Internet, engineering and science. It lets users view archive contents and browse individual member files, and provides doxygen-generated source code documentation for most packages. It also offers package meta information and license file overviews.
highassurance.rs
High Assurance Rust is a book about developing secure and robust software. It presents a project-based approach to systems programming and low-level software security, teaching Rust by re-implementing a major dynamic collection from its standard library. It discusses using open-source software assurance tools, including rustc, libFuzzer, rr, qemu, differential fuzzing and deductive verification.
isitreallyfoss.com
A website that evaluates projects to see whether they are as free and open source as advertised. It publishes reviews of software projects, noting licensing, marketing and transparency concerns, and lists categories of concerns such as open washing and open-core models. Reviews are performed manually without legal expertise.
codeberg.org
Isitreallyfoss is a website where projects are evaluated against the rights and freedoms provided by open source and free software. The repository on Codeberg holds the site's source, including about pages, documented license and transparency issues, and the project entries shown on the site. The site is built with Astro, and requests and feedback are accepted through Codeberg issues.
objective-see.org
KnockKnock is a macOS application that lists persistently installed software to reveal malware that installs itself persistently. It enumerates known locations where persistent software may be installed. Signed Apple binaries are filtered out by default, and legitimate third-party software is also displayed. It requires macOS 10.15 or later and can optionally use a VirusTotal API key.
libera.chat
Libera.Chat is an IRC network for collaboration on free and open source software projects. Its site publishes a bot and LLM policy update, addressing unsupervised LLM-driven bots on the network and announcing planned policy additions for 2026-05-30. It also provides a frequently asked questions guide covering accounts, channels, bans and staff contact.
github.com
Machine Learning for Software Engineers is a study resource that provides a complete daily study plan for software engineers seeking to become machine learning engineers, structured as a top-down learning path.
ml-ops.org
ML-Ops is a site about Machine Learning Operations. It covers motivation for MLOps, designing ML-powered software, the end-to-end ML workflow lifecycle, three levels of ML-based software, MLOps principles, CRISP-ML(Q), the MLOps Stack Canvas and ML model governance. It describes MLOps as aiming to unify the release cycle for machine learning and software.
mobirise.com
Mobirise is website builder software for Windows, Mac and Linux that also runs online with AI. Users build sites by arranging blocks and editing text and photos visually, without coding. Mobirise AI generates draft site designs from a description. The software is free for personal and commercial use, and premium themes and extensions are sold as a kit.
newreleases.io
A release tracker for software developers and DevOps that sends notifications when software is updated. It supports many providers including GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Gitea, Bitbucket, package registries and Docker image tags, and delivers messages through email, webhooks and instant messengers. The service is free and accepts donations.
nsaneforums.com
Nsane Forums is a computer and technology community focused on software updates. It hosts forum sections for news, software releases, giveaways, security and privacy, and member support. An account is required to access the entire community, and registration only requires a few details.
oldergeeks.com
OlderGeeks.com is a free software download site without ads, misleading download links or other annoyances. It states that downloads are clean and the site is supported by donations. It lists software downloads by category and a most-downloaded-files section.
escape-ossr.gitlab.io
The ESCAPE Open-source Scientific Software Repository is a curated Zenodo community for sharing scientific software, services and datasets for astro-particle and particle physics communities. Submissions are reviewed for metadata, licensing and documentation, and hosted on Zenodo with persistent DOIs. A Python library supports CodeMeta metadata generation, validation and publishing automation.
openalternative.co
OpenAlternative is a curated collection of open source alternatives to everyday SaaS products. The site lists projects with repository stars, last commit times, licenses, and short descriptions, and notes support from partners and sponsors. It describes itself as a crowdsourced directory of open-source software.
opensource.builders
Opensource Builders is a platform that helps users discover open source alternatives to popular proprietary software. It allows users to compare features and capabilities of different open source tools to identify the best options for their needs. The platform is an initiative of Openship, and its interface was adapted from a design by Maze Heart.