The general consensus is that is too hard or too expensive to run a small business on entirely free software. After running my company for 5 years on entirely free software I think this is not the case. We have instant communication, shared calendars, groupware, single sign on, and a single administration interface! Things have worked out really well and in many ways are better integrated than trying to combine multiple different cloud based services.
In this talk I will walk through how our infrastructure works, what the pitfalls were, and what the benefits are. At the end I'll give a short demo on a couple of virtual machines to show off the user and admin experience.
A new typeface – greater legibility and readability for low vision readers
Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson. What makes it different from traditional typography design is that it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recognition, ultimately improving readability. We are making it free for anyone to use!
FocusWriter is a simple, distraction-free writing environment. It utilizes a hide-away interface that you access by moving your mouse to the edges of the screen, allowing the program to have a familiar look and feel to it while still getting out of the way so that you can immerse yourself in your work. It’s available for Linux and Windows, and has been translated into many different languages.
Features:
- TXT, basic RTF, and basic ODT file support
- Timers and alarms
- Daily goals
- Fully customizable themes
- Typewriter sound effects (optional)
- Live statistics (optional)
- Spell-checking (optional)
- Multi-document support
- Sessions
- Portable mode (optional)
- Translated into over 20 languages
Every designer has their own preferred set of go-to fonts, a dependable set of serifs and sans-serifs that'll cover most eventualities. But every now and then you find yourself in need of something a little out of the ordinary, a really weird but eye-catching font that you can use sparingly to grab people's attention.
When you're in need of a weird font, you're not always sure exactly what you're looking for; it's the sort of thing that you'll only recognise when you see it. So to help you out, we've gathered together 10 of our favourite weird and unusual fonts for you to download for free today (see more of our favourite free fonts here). All of them are free to use for personal work, and some of them can be used commercially too.
Droid-Break is a list of free and open source Android apps inspired by Prism-Break. Our purpose is to show you high quality alternatives to the big proprietary solutions.
Please note that open source apps don't guarantee absolute freedom, e.g., an open source Twitter client still sends everything to Twitter's servers.
Anyway, we believe it's the best we can come up with and that in many cases it's the better choice.
If you think an app should be added please write an email, a tweet, a Disqus comment, or fork the project on GitHub and make a pull request.
You will find most of these apps in the F-Droid repository. Also, you might want to consider flashing a custom ROM like LineageOS or Replicant on your device.
The largest database of free icons available in PNG, SVG, EPS, PSD and BASE 64 formats.
Developed in partnership with the world's leading chip companies over a 12 year period, FreeRTOS is the market leading real time operating system (or RTOS), and the de-facto standard solution for microcontrollers and small microprocessors.
With millions of deployments in all market sectors, blue chip companies trust FreeRTOS because it is professionally developed, strictly quality controlled, robust, supported, free to use in commercial products without a requirement to expose proprietary source code, and has no IP infringement risk.
There is now a complete Open Source tool chain for some FPGAs from Lattice Semiconductor. For a convincing video that these devices and the Open Source development tools are useful, see:
Introduction to the Open Source FPGA toolchain short or long@32c3 by Clifford Wolf
Forth on icestick by James BowmanStraightforward DNS hosting services
Being one of leading DNS hosting providers, we always strive to provide the best possible feature set to our users. With the help of our users, we continue to improve the feature set and functionality of YDNS by adding useful features. This community driven approach makes YDNS special.
The feature set currently includes:
Unlimited hosts1 per user
Dynamic DNS for hosts, which can be used to have your home network on a permanent hostname (like example.ydns.io)
Full DNS hosting for your own domains
Backup DNS
DNSSEC2 support
A lightweight API that works with most DynDNS implementations1 based on fair-use model, 2 DNSSEC is not available for all DNS zones
Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.
10 new photos every 10 days
Source Code Pro is a set of OpenType fonts that have been designed to work well in user interface (UI) environments. In addition to a functional OpenType font, this open source project provides all of the source files that were used to build this OpenType font by using the AFDKO makeotf tool.
Inconsolata is my first serious original font release. It is a monospace font, designed for code listings and the like, in print. There are a great many "programmer fonts," designed primarily for use on the screen, but in most cases do not have the attention to detail for high resolution rendering.
Overpass — an open source web font family
Sponsored by Red Hat, Inspired by Highway Gothic, Designed by Delve Fonts For more information, please visit overpassfont.org
CANtact is an open source Controller Area Network (CAN) to USB interface for your computer.
Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space. Installing is a matter of seconds. Upload, manage and share photos like from a native application. Lychee comes with everything you need and all your photos are stored securely.
CiviCRM is web-based, open source, Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software geared toward meeting the needs of non-profit and other civic-sector organizations.
Free vector and raster map data at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales
Terms of Use: All versions of Natural Earth raster + vector map data found on this website are in the public domain.