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#FreeSoftwareAdvent
A piece of free software I rely on at work is #Dokuwiki: https://www.dokuwiki.org
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#FreeSoftwareAdvent
A piece of free software I rely on at work is #Dokuwiki: https://www.dokuwiki.org
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#FreeSoftwareAdvent I couldn't work without LibreOffice or Thunderbird. The former is a fantastic and comprehensive office suite, and the latter is Mozilla's IMAP and POP3 email client.
I suggested using them years ago at a work meeting, and since then, Microsoft tools have been discarded in favor of their opensource alternatives.
#FreeSoftwareAdvent KeePassXC is the best password manager I've used.
Can create strong passwords, store TOTP data, organize in folders all the keys, add comments...
Day 2 of #freesoftwareadvent I use digikam for most photo management; and also it's sibling showfoto. digikam has a load of different photo tools, from the simple colour fixes, un-distortion etc - and simple album management - all the way up to some very fancy tools. It does the download from phone or camera great. showfoto is most of the basic tools but setup generally for …
For #FreeSoftwareAdvent I'd like to post about open source tools that we're using in our #VFXPipeline.
On Dec. 5th let's start with #OpenImageIO (
hmm, #freesoftwareadvent - I think I'd go for 'perf' for my first one; it's a good simple way to see where your CPU time is going inside a program or the kernel; it's got about a million options for deeper stuff, but a simple 'perf top' (as root) or 'perf record' followed by 'perf report' can give you a lot of hints, especially with the -g …