What is free software?


“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer”. We sometimes call it “libre software,” borrowing the French or Spanish word for “free” as in freedom, to show we do not mean the software is gratis.

Video Software


OBS Studio Written in: C, C++ Operating systems: Windows 8 and later, macOS 10.13 and later, Linux OBS Studios, also known as Open Broadcaster Software, is a free and open source software program for live streaming and video recording. Features of the software include device/source capture, recording, encoding and broadcasting. This software is commonly used by video game streamers on the popular streaming platform.

Office software


LibreOffice Written in: C++, XML, Java Operating systems: Windows 7+, macOS 10.10+, Linux, Android, iOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Haiku, Solaris LibreOffice is a free and open-source office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation (TDF). It was forked in 2010 from OpenOffice.org, which was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice. The LibreOffice suite consists of programs for word processing, creating and editing of spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams and drawings, working with databases, and composing mathematical formulae. It is available in 115 languages.

System software


Clonezilla Written in: Perl, Unix shell Operating systems: POSIX, Linux Clonezilla is a free and open-source disk cloning, disk imaging, data recovery, and deployment computer program. Clonezilla SE provides multicast support similar to Norton Ghost Corporate Edition. Clonezilla does not support online imaging, so the partition being cloned has to be unmounted. To circumvent this restriction, Clonezilla can be run from a USB flash drive, CD/DVD-ROM or Android mobile phone, requiring no modification to the computer, with the software running in its own booted environment.

System software


Duplicati Written in: C# Operating systems: Windows, macOS, Linux Duplicati is a backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed remote backups of local files on cloud storage services and remote file servers. Duplicati supports not only various online backup services like OneDrive, Amazon S3, Backblaze, Rackspace Cloud Files, Tahoe LAFS, and Google Drive, but also any servers that support SSH/SFTP, WebDAV, or FTP. Duplicati uses standard components such as rdiff, zip, AESCrypt, and GnuPG. This allows users to recover backup files even if Duplicati is not available.

Image editing


GIMP Written in: C with GTK version 2 Operating systems: Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks. Tools used to perform image editing can be accessed via the toolbox, through menus and dialogue windows. They include filters and brushes, as well as transformation, selection, layer and masking tools.

Image editing


Inkscape Written in: C++ with gtkmm, Python (extensions) Operating systems: Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor used to create vector images, primarily in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. Other formats can be imported and exported. Inkscape can render primitive vector shapes (e.g. rectangles, ellipses, polygons, arcs, spirals, stars and 3D boxes) and text. These objects may be filled with solid colors, patterns, radial or linear color gradients and their borders may be stroked, both with adjustable transparency.