{"id":6451,"date":"2014-01-01T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T09:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noi3.org\/site\/?p=6451"},"modified":"2014-01-01T09:07:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T09:07:28","slug":"30-cool-open-source-software-i-discovered-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.noi3.org\/?p=6451","title":{"rendered":"30 Cool Open Source Software I Discovered in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\tT<\/span>hese are full-featured open source software products, free as in beer and speech that I started to use recently. Vivek Gite picks his best open source software of 2013.<\/p>\n

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\tT<\/span>hese are full-featured open source software products, free as in beer and speech that I started to use recently. Vivek Gite picks his best open source software of 2013.<\/p>\n

\t#1 Replicant – Fully free Android distribution<\/h2>\n

\tReplicant is entirely free and open source distributions of Android<\/strong> on several devices including both phones and tablets. I have installed it on an older Nexus S. You can install apps from F-Droid store a GPLv2 client app that comes configured with a repository hosting only free as in freedom applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\t\t\t\t\"Replicant<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tOperating system : Linux\/Android<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tPurpose : Free os for phone\/tablets<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tTargets : User who wish to have a full control over the mobile phone with strong privacy settings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tLicense : Apache License 2.0\/GPL 2.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tDownload url : replicant.us<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\t#2: Miro video converter<\/h2>\n

\tThis is an open source, cross-platform application to convert videos from and to various formats, including formats suitable for devices such as Android\/iOS phones. It is simple and easy to use software to convert almost any video to MP4, WebM (vp8), Ogg Theora <\/strong>format. Miro Video Converter is based on FFMPEG and act as a front end to FFMPEG command line tools<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\t\t\t\t\"Miro<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tOperating system : Cross-platform<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tPurpose : Video converter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tTargets : Multimedia users<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tLicense : GPL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tDownload url : mirovideoconverter.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\t#3 OwnCloud – Dropbox alternative for cloud storage service<\/h2>\n

\tI was looking for an alternative to Dropbox<\/strong> to run cloud on my own server<\/strong> at home and office. This software is open source software, and it is self hosted. I don’t have to trust third party with my data. I found this software easy to install and quite useful. I started to use it for syncing files and other data. I have been using for couple of months and it has been proven reliable alternative to Dropbox. There are clients available for MS-Windows, OS X, Linux, and mobile apps for iOS and Android devices (or simply access data using the ownCloud web frontend).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\t\t\t\t\"OwnCloud<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tOperating system : Cross-platform<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tPurpose : Cloud storage (Data synchronization)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tTargets : Home users\/IT departments\/Sysadmins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tLicense : AGPLv3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tDownload url : owncloud.org<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\t#4 Docker – FreeBSD like container+API for Linux<\/h2>\n

\tThe FreeBSD jail<\/a> provides an operating system-level virtualization partition a FreeBSD-based serve into several independent mini-systems. You can do the same with Linux using OpenVZ<\/a>. Linux Containers (LXC) is a virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux systems. Docker extends LXC. It uses LXC, cgroups, Linux kernel and other parts to automate the deployment of applications inside software containers. It comes with API to runs processes in isolation. With docker I can pack WordPress (or any other app written in Python\/Ruby\/Php & friends) and its dependencies in a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container. I can deploy and test such container on any Linux based server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\t\t\t\t\"Docker<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tOperating system : Linux amd64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tPurpose : OS level virtualization<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tTargets : DevOps\/Sysadmins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tLicense : Apache License 2.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tDownload url : docker.io<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\t#5 Adminer – A lightweight and full-featured database management tool<\/h2>\n

\tAdminer is a full-featured database management tool written in PHP. Conversely to phpMyAdmin, it consists of a single file ready to deploy to the target server. Adminer is available for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL and Oracle. I usually install this for clients who are new<\/strong> to PostgreSQL\/MySQL. The software acts as a drop-in-replacement for phpMyAdmin with a better user interface, better support for MySQL features, higher performance and more security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\t\t\t\t\"Adminer<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tOperating system : Cross-platform<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tPurpose : Database management<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tTargets : DBA\/new users<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tLicense : Apache License or GPL 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tDownload url : adminer.org<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\t#6 MariaDB – Drop-in replacement for Oracle MySQL server<\/h2>\n

\tMariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL server. MariaDB is going to be default in many popular Linux distro and open source project. Red Hat will switch the default database in its enterprise distribution, RHEL (including its clones such as CentOS), from MySQL to MariaDB, when version 7 is released in 2014. I started testing MariaDB and found no problems at all. The speed is same or better in some cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\t\t\t\tOperating system : Cross-platform<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tPurpose : RDBMS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tTargets : DevOps\/Sysadmins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tLicense : GPL\/LGPL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t\t\t\tDownload url : mariadb.org<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\t#7 RackTables – Manage your data center assets like a pro<\/h2>\n

\tI wish I discovered RackTables earlier<\/strong>. It is is a datacenter asset management system. With this software one can document hardware assets (such as server, workstations, routers, switches and more), network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration and more:<\/p>\n

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  1. \t\tList of all devices, racks, and enclosures you’ve got<\/li>\n
  2. \t\tMount the devices into the racks<\/li>\n
  3. \t\tMaintain physical ports of the devices and links between them<\/li>\n
  4. \t\tManage IP addresses, assign them to the devices and group them into networks<\/li>\n
  5. \t\tDocument your NAT rules, describe your loadbalancing policy and store loadbalancing configuration<\/li>\n
  6. \t\tAttach files to various objects in the system<\/li>\n
  7. \t\tCreate users, assign permissions and allow or deny any actions they can do<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    \t\t\t\t\"Racktables<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \t\t\t\tOperating system : Cross-platform<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \t\t\t\tPurpose : IDC asset management system<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \t\t\t\tTargets : Sysadmin\/DevOPS\/IT Managers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \t\t\t\tLicense : GPL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \t\t\t\tDownload url : racktables.org<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    \t#8 Apache Cordova – Create smartphone app just with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript<\/h2>\n

    \tApache Cordova is a free and open source framework that allows you to create mobile apps using standardized web APIs. You can create apps that work on iOS, Andriod, BlackBerry, Windows, Ubuntu and other phone based operating systems. You write code once and run on selected mobile platforms with little or no change<\/a> at all. PhoneGap uses Apache Cordova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    \t\t\t\tOperating system : iOS, Android, webOS, Symbian, BlackBerry, Ubuntu Touch, Windows Phone, Windows 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \t\t\t\tPurpose : Build native mobile apps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \t\t\t\tTargets : Developers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \t\t\t\tLicense : Apache License 2.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \t\t\t\tDownload url : cordova.apache.org<\/a> or phonegap.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    \t#9 Angry IP scanner – ipscan tool<\/h2>\n

    \tNmap is an open source security tool for network exploration<\/a>, security scanning and auditing. ipscan (Angry IP Scanner) is an alternative to nmap command<\/a>. It is also an open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use. It scans IP addresses and ports as well as has many other features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    \t\t\t\t\"Angry<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \t\t\t\tOperating system : Cross-platform<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \t\t\t\tPurpose : Network scanner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \t\t\t\tTargets : Sysadmin\/Network administrators<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \t\t\t\tLicense : GPL 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    \t\t\t\tDownload url : angryip.org<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    \t#10 Jekyll – Create simple static blog<\/h2>\n

    \tDrupal, Typo3, WordPress and many other content management system (CMS)\/blogging software dynamically create feature rich content. However, you may not need all the all features and complexity offered by modern CMS based systems. For example, a WordPress based blog like nixCraft<\/a> requires multiple VMs<\/a>, CDN for static assets<\/a>, caching engine such as memcached<\/a>, PHP, mysql database, comment moderation, and on going updates. A growing trend is to keep your blog simple by avoiding CMS and use static HTML generators that offers the following benefits:<\/p>\n