OpenSSH is a free version of the SSH connectivity tools that technical users rely on. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks.
Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- Linux Mobile
- Haiku
Web-based Git hosting service facilitating collaboration, with features like issue tracking, social networking, and wikis for project management.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad


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Mycroft is an open source voice assistant, that can be installed on Linux, Raspberry Pi, or on the Mark 1 hardware device.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Platforms
- Linux
- Android
- Raspberry Pi



The leading platform for scale-out computing, Ubuntu Server helps you make the most of your infrastructure. Whether you want to deploy an OpenStack cloud, a Hadoop cluster or a 50,000-node render farm, Ubuntu Server delivers the best value scale-out performance available.

A low-cost, capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like games, spreadsheets and word-processing. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by children and young people all over the world to learn programming.


Raspberry Pi OS (previously called Raspbian) is the Foundation’s official supported operating system. You can install it with NOOBS or download the image below and follow our installation guide.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Platforms
- Linux
- Raspberry Pi


Makes it easy to administer Linux servers via a web browser. It allows you to easily perform simple tasks like storage administration, inspecting journals, starting & stopping services, monitoring & administering several servers at once.



phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Platforms
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- PHP

Protects websites with front-end proxy, dynamic DNS, CDN, and firewall; blocks DDoS and targeted attacks, optimizes traffic, and analyzes threats.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)


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nginx ("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server.


MariaDB is a backward compatible, drop-in replacement of the MySQL® Database Server. It includes all major open source storage engines.



GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku


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OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the...


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ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- YunoHost

Open-source and privacy-first home automation with an emphasis on local control and backed by a worldwide community. Runs on Raspberry Pi or local server.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Apple Watch
- Android Auto
- Android Wear
- Python
- F-Droid
- Raspberry Pi
- Kodi
- Cloudron

Octopi is the highest rated graphical user interface for the Arch Linux pacman package management tool in AUR. It is written in C++ using the Qt toolkit and its source code is hosted on GitHub. The first commits date from February 2013.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Arch Linux


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Desktop interface for managing virtual machines. It supports KVM, Xen, and Linux Containers, providing a summary of performance and resource stats.



Web-based interface for Unix-like and Windows system administration with modules for user management, service configuration, security controls, and server monitoring.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Online
- BSD
- Self-Hosted


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Red Hat is the leader in development, deployment, and management of Linux and open source solutions for Internet infrastructure - ranging from embedded devices to secure Web servers. Red Hat was founded in 1994 by visionary entrepreneurs Bob Young and Marc Ewing.




















